"After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of being able to learn anything useful from people on other, less ideologically correct networks. Instead of telling him to go fuck himself, I went to talk to about fedi experiences with people on the very impure Bluesky, where I had seen people casually talking about Mastodon being confusing and weird.

"My purpose in gathering this informal, conversational feedback is to bring voices into the “how should Mastodon be” conversation that don’t otherwise get much attention—which I do because I hope it will help designers and developers and community leaders who genuinely want Mastodon to work for more kinds of people refine their understanding of the problem space."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The author is on mastodon: @[email protected].

It's not trivial to enable them to see such a post as this but it would be possible.

You could, on mastodon, post to her with a link to this post, or better, a mastodon specific link (PITA to find).

Or, if you're game, post to this community from mastodon while also at-ing her.

These are just suggestions, not saying at all that you should have done any of this

[–] jocanib 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. I'm never quite sure how to deal with that, if I'm linking to the author's own work/site (I generally do try to make sure there is a relevant credit otherwise). Does the username help increase their visibility (good) or does it just encourage harassment from people who cannot accept that the Fediverse is ever anything less than perfect?

Probably a bit of both, and context-dependent so it's always a judgement call.

I did try the Lemmy-on-Mastodon thing and hated it (just a stream of out-of-context posts dominating my feed) so I probably wouldn't do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does the username help increase their visibility (good) or does it just encourage harassment from people who cannot accept that the Fediverse is ever anything less than perfect?

Well in this case, Erin is sharing her articles on mastodon directly knowing full well that large discussion threads will often start (that is, she talks about not being able to respond to everyone and that she will happily block anyone that is unkind etc). So attaching their name/tag is probably not a problem at all.

And yea ... looking at lemmy from mastodon is rubbish, which really bothers me because it's really simple things that are missing and making it rubbish.

[–] Zak 3 points 1 year ago

I've found posting to Lemmy from Mastodon easy and comfortable (just tag a community in the post), but following Lemmy communities from Mastodon isn't a good experience.

I don't see anything wrong with that. Lemmy and Mastodon are designed for different use cases. It's great that they can interoperate to a degree, but heavy participation in a Lemmy community is best done from a Lemmy server.