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When you put it like that

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Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko on doorknobs:

Doorknobs are the work of the devil, designed only to make people suffer. “Yes, I would like to apply inordinate force on a small slippery sphere” — statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

The absurdity of this near-ubiquitous design decision had never occurred to me because interacting with doorknobs is one of these invisible, largely subconscious things one does on an hourly basis without even noticing. But come on—can you argue with the logic here?

Imagine: Both of your hands are full, and you now have to apply rotational force to one of the least grippable form factors humanity could have invented. Who came up with this?

Wide blue yonder

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    This is neat. Someone’s building a image-focused app for Bluesky. It’s not intended to be an #Instagram clone, but you can see some resemblances.

    Folks on #Mastodon and #Pixelfed might have noticed that Pixelfed has been getting some attention recently. I’ve been on Pixelfed for a little while, but for most of the time I was on there, I didn’t see a lot of adoption. That’s changing, especially as Pixelfed finally released an iOS app. Pixelfed is ActivityPub-based, so it was already possible to use Pixelfed via fediverse apps like Tusker, but a native app is the first thing potential users will look for. I’d been using the beta version on Test Flight; it’s not bad.

    I would love to see more diversity in photo-sharing services. I always thought it was a shame that Flickr’s fortunes sunk the way they did.

    (Glass is worth considering also.)

    Keep it personal

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      I think one of the most important features that #Mastodon has and #Bluesky doesn’t is the ability to follow someone and see their posts, but hide third-party content they’re reposting. It might seem small, but it’s the number one issue that discourages me from following people on Bluesky. I want to subscribe to someone’s work without signing up for a torrent of memes and political stuff.

      You have this level of control on Mastodon. You don’t on Bluesky.