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2025-04-25 12:57:17

scott@loves.tech

It seems like a lot of people have forgotten the lessons taught in Star Wars. No matter how good your intentions are, going over to the dark side will just corrupt you and taint any cause you support.

2025-04-25 14:01:37

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

If only people could agree on what counts as the dark side.

2025-04-25 14:27:21

BauerUlli

bauerulli@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Give in to your anger. With each passing moment, you make yourself more my servant.

( Imperator Palpatine)

2025-04-26 06:49:32

Witcraft (Hubzilla)

witcraft@hub.hubzilla.de

I think people tend to forget that public posts are nothing less than a public blog, a radio or TV interview. They tend to feel they are sitting at the regulars' table and speak as they would there to their peer group - and then regret it. Decency has become a rare quality (actually, it should be there ay the regulars' tables, too).

2025-04-26 16:24:04

Marshall Sutherland

dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com

It all sounds rather silly since I can literally use copy and paste to say:

Jupiter says "As for quotes, these people don't even now that quotes are possible in social media."

2025-04-26 20:28:48

Bill Statler

billstatler@forum.statler.ws

Take a look at the feed of popular posts on any large Mastodon instance, and see how many of them are a screenshot of somebody else's post.

2025-04-26 23:36:36

Jupiter Rowland

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Marshall Sutherland This is one of the big differences between Mastodon and Hubzilla.

Mastodon users can only do what they've got buttons for, and they can only toot plain text.

Hubzilla users not only have more buttons at hand, but they can do even more things by manually typing raw code.

Another big difference:

The huge majority of Mastodon users is mostly or exclusively on phones. Many don't know what copy-paste is because they've never used an actual computer, only ever phones instead. For the rest, copy-paste is too fumbly to bother, what with the touch screen being their only input device. Thus, unless Mastodon users get a quote or quote-post button, the only halfway convenient way for them to quote anything is by tooting a screenshot with no alt-text.

On Hubzilla, everyone's on desktop and laptop computers with hardware keyboards and dedicated pointing devices. Copy-paste is a breeze here.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Hubzilla

2025-04-27 09:46:02

Phil Bass

phil@hub.hubzilla.de

Thanks @Jupiter Rowland. I've learnt something today.

2025-04-27 16:16:05

Scott M. Stolz

scott@loves.tech

@Jupiter Rowland That is a factor, but even if we had a native mobile app, we would still have more feature, just like the Facebook app has more features than the Twitter/X and Mastodon apps. Part of it is because Mastodon is modelled after Twitter, and Twitter never was feature-rich.