I'm not a tech engineer, but I "get" tech easily and usually don't have a problem learning new platforms.
The more I'm on Mastodon 🐘 the more I honestly think the structure for CoSo is the objectively better way to do social media.
Everything about about 🐘, from searching hashtags to creating lists to finding data-driven people, is horrifically clunky and unintuitive. 1/whatever
This is the result of kinda getting spoiled from the bird app where the profile would fly out just on mouseover AND you could also instantly follow based on that small flyout.
Also it's the result of simply and easily finding hashtag posts that you literally don't have to FIND the people using the hashtags BEFORE you search for the hashtag (🤦 omg srsly).
That's made possible by ONE owner/CEO/chief dude with multiple machines on the same universe rather than smaller independent universes.
Until there is some way to cross-check between ALL instances/universes for users on 🐘 it'll probably stay a clunky extremely non-intuitive mess.
You have to know who exactly has the info you want, and you have to know their exact addy, AND you have to actually visit their individual pages to find it until lists start to gain more functionality.
OK, rant over. Back to trying to find stuff I need.
@Myana Yes! That sounds like what it's like. I wasn't using email quite that early but honestly USENET was a better experience than this....*because* even though each USENET server was totally separate and sometimes segregated to only ONE topic, you still had some sort of overarching, intuitive method to search for topics you're interested in.
@artisanrox I shared your description with my husband and he howled, "OMIGAWD that sounds like UUCP!" halfway through. 😜
He too agrees that no one should have to go back to that!
@Myana The bird app was so fantastically active and "successful" (socially, not financially) because honest-to-God they figured all this out in the code. Not even CoSo has all that functionality (quite yet...hopefully will be developed later?) and NO platform will take off at Twitter level until it's easier to find what/who you're looking for and are able to put all those things in one place.
@artisanrox That would kill me. Just reading about it gives me flashbacks to the Bad Old Days of early email, where you had to map out every server your email would travel through to get to the final address.