I fail to understand why there are people with sufficient technical acume to be on Mastodon who never discovered things like Tweak New Twitter: browser add-ons that essentally make Twitter pretty much like Mastodon in terms of user experience, Add in ublock origin or something similar, along with the steve black blacklist, & you get:
* no ads
* only see people you follow
* no trending
* no algorithm
* retweets from people you follow in a separate tab
Oh right. You're on your phones. OK then.
@PaulDavisTheFirst speaking for myself it is a matter of purposefully not going for platforms where monetizing the user is the target.
While we can have a good experience with this web blocking stuff, other people we interact with and send links to do not have that same experience.
It is the same reason I stopped sending news article links to friends, it is just awful the amount of popups and ads a simple short news post has.
With mastodon I am 100% okay with sending links to my random posts
@falktx Oh, and this is not supposed a defense of Twitter. The default experience there is needlessly horrible.
@falktx well, i agree with you.
But I also see quite a few voices saying that Twitter is-this or is-that, apparently implying that there is only one user experience there.
The user experience people here (Mastodon) want *is*, broadly speaking, available on Twitter too. But you have to make some choices and take some actions that I suspect many do not want to think about or deal with.