On the left, the 404 Media Ghost account (@feed @404media.co), as viewed from my GotoSocial account, via Phanpy. On the right, the same account, as viewed from a Mastodon account, also via Phanpy.

What's interesting is that the GtS account displays the entire text of the article, while the Mastodon account only shows the preview and a link...

You can also follow the same account from PieFed, but currently there's nothing that comes up.

On the left, the 404 Media Ghost account (@feed @404media.co), as viewed from my GotoSocial account, via Phanpy. On the right, the same account, as viewed from a Mastodon account, also via Phanpy.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social [S] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Thanks for that perspective. Mastodon really is terrible.

I've complained about this before but I find a lot of Fediverse projects seem intent on straight up cloning mainstream platforms for no logical reason and this seems to be yet another example.

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[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

It's one thing to build free, decentralised alternatives to mainstream silos.

It's something else to outright clone them and even adopt their shortcomings. Either because their shortcomings allegedly are part of the very concept (e.g. microblogging isn't microblogging if it isn't enforcing a purist Twitter style), or because aspiring users could be irritated if these shortcomings weren't there, or because the devs don't even see them as shortcomings because they've never experienced anything without these shortcomings.

See also Pixelfed that's specialising in posting images so hard that it silently drops any posts from outside with no image in them.

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