2.0 (finally)

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this is leaving your community vulnerable to any nasty security exploits that might have gotten found since you last updated. also there's been a crazy amount of usability improvements over the past year. please make sure that you're sysopping responsibly!

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FYI if you feel that you need to abandon your mastodon/fediverse account and you run an instance then please hand the keys over to someone who can maintain it in your stead. I've seen at least two instances that are still on ancient versions of mastodon

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@mellifluousbox Personally I think I'd like to see a bigger emphasis on the average user through ease of use and trust and safety. There's been such a focus on catering to a majority white European tech-savvy and legalistically privacy-conscious audience that it's resulted in nearly every other demographic feeling confused, isolated, and frustrated.

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@QueensRambleRoomFFCASH twitter never had a 500 character limit? it was 140 for a while because it was sort of based around SMS for a few years, eventually they doubled it to 280 sometime around 2015 IIRC. mastodon has always been 500 by default, bluesky has always been 300 (minus april fools this year where they lowered it to 299 as probably one of the most passive aggressive jokes I've ever seen)

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the bluesky character limit is going to make my blood boil. I regularly post stuff that's at least slightly longer than 300 characters. I'm so tired of having to either edit everything down or impose that arbitrary limit onto every other site that I post on, all of which doesn't have a character limit that's nearly as strict if at all

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before anyone says anything: no this isn't about censoring or preventing people from posting stuff or trying to redefine what counts as nsfw. go do that, it's awesome that you are. I just want to make it clear that some things do need a warning label when it could end up in a really inappropriate context

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honestly can we like. please give people who want porn tagged/labeled a seat at the table? "lol just block them" isn't going to cut it when it could literally be some rando that you haven't heard of getting unceremoniously dumped on your feed or the search results. maybe someone is in that kind of mood sometimes but other times they're sitting on the bus. people should curate their experiences online but they have to be given the tools to do so

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I always know when fdroid is checking for updates because it unceremoniously dumps the raw html of an error page all over my screen and then complains about an unexpected health data permission

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