A guest post – The Mess of the Current #OpenWeb Path: A User’s Experience
Setting up a #Mastodon account to move away from supremacist platforms like #Twitter, #Threads, #Bluesky, and #LinkedIn felt like the right step. But almost immediately, I ran into one of the core failures of the so-called #openweb—drastic post length limits, artificial restrictions, and a general lack of usability. At first glance, Mastodon appears no different from the mainstream platforms it’s supposed to replace. With the post lengths, why are we still replicating big tech […]https://hamishcampbell.com/a-guest-post-the-mess-of-the-current-openweb-path-a-users-experience/
I think the best exploration of the different options in the #Fediverse are the blog posts by @_elena :