What’s made you sick of IG? Besides the news feed not being chronological order, nothing has susbtaintially changed for my day to day casual IG usage in a pretty long time. Yeah there are stories and more ads. If I don’t care about those, they can be easily
ignored.
Just seems a bit extreme to be sick of something for things you want to ignore that aren’t even that bad. You could say except ads but businesses need to make money
This is another reason to prefer federation: your social graph is not owned by (at the mercy of) a business whose interests may not even be aligned with yours (bad advertising is only one of the many consequences of this).
> extreme
I'd not call "there's something better" an extreme approach. The maintenance burden is what makes federated services difficult to operate. That's the issue right now, but people are working to resolve that too.
I’d love federation to work out. I’ve unfortunately lost most hope.
The comments there show other problems too. Other problems that may never be solved. For example not being able to take your social graph with you if you change Mastodon instances. Having issues with the admin or an instance seems like it’ll happen often enough. But you’re essentially punished for that. That’s just one example.
It is good though that people are trying to solve the problems. Hopefully my cynicism will be proven wrong and I’ll only be happy about that.
