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> a combination of Twitter’s chronological feed with the community-driven spaces of Reddit
Eugen's product vision is fighting the "community-driven spaces" idea as hard as he can, as far as I understand – to the extent that that maps onto instances, and not the [groups that don't yet exist].
> But because each server effectively acts as a separate version of Mastodon, participating in multiple instances is a hassle. For each one, you must maintain separate profiles and follower lists, and there’s no way to view multiple “Local” timelines in a single feed.
I agree that it'd be nice to be able to view other instances' local timelines. But from here on out, the piece gets real confused by its idea that this is the only way to use Mastodon and thus that you should have one account per instance – this is not how most people use Mastodon.
> The mobile app isn’t really set up for hopping between instances, either. If you get bored with once instance and decide you’d like to check out another, the only option is to sign out of your account and sign up for a new instance from scratch.
So... log on to your desktop and [move].
> The overarching issue here is that Mastodon is trying to be too much like Twitter when it really ought to be more like Reddit.
If you want ActivityPub Reddit, you want [Lemmy], but with less FOSSy users.
> In the ideal version of Mastodon, users would be able to browse the content of those communities, and jump between them at any time, but would still have easy ways to interact with anyone else on the network.
This... is what I do. This is how I use Mastodon. This exists???
[groups that don't yet exist]: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/861#issuecomment...
[move]: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move
[Lemmy]: https://lemmy.ml/