It’s very similar to how Twitter felt in its early years. You had to know exactly what you wanted to see (topics, people), otherwise you’d feel lost.
Small-time opensource developer, big-time opensource user.
I like to run.
It’s very similar to how Twitter felt in its early years. You had to know exactly what you wanted to see (topics, people), otherwise you’d feel lost.
My family has been using Synapse since before Covid hit, including TURN server (coturn) for audio and video calls. No complaints about the UI so far, except for Element on iPhone reportedly “freezing” for a few moments when sending messages - and that was over a year ago.
What problems do you have getting TURN to work?
It’s been in beta for a while now. Here’s the blog post introducing video rooms: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-rooms-and-a-new-search-experience/
Your own, obviously! Especially if you’re asking in a “Selfhosted” community. :)
Mastodon does not need to scale well. Even if the userbase shrinks to what it was before the Big Twitter Exodus (or whatever you want to call it) of last year, it will be perfectly alright.
Mastodon was fun and enjoyable before. It does not need more users to remain so.