"Mastodon seems like something people who drive manual transmissions and program in Unix would love." -- as I've commented on Mastodon, I miss my manual transmission car. Thank you for this analysis, Brynn.
Spoutible is built on a readily available PHP script called "ColibriSM", which just cost a few bucks - you can check @doubtible on Twitter, they use the same one and debunk most of Spoutible CEO's bogus claims. The developer of ColibriSM, MansurTL, also confirmed that Spoutible is using his script.
Upon release of the platform, Spoutible's CEO forgot to change a default setting for the API, which led to tens of thousands of users' email- and IP-addresses being publicly available for a while.
The userbase is even smaller than he officially claimed (e.g. in the WIRED article). There are still less than 200,000 registered users on the platform and it's already gaining less and less new users each day.
Oh, and Spoutible's CEO is known for being a scammer in the crypto space, where he used the alias "Iconic Expert". He regularly harasses and doxes people on Twitter.
It's interesting that you like the Spoutible UI as it's by far the slowest of the ones I've used (I haven't been tempted to go anywhere near Threads) and seems to just hang for me.
I would have claimed that Mastodon has a form of verification in that you can link your account to an existing web site. Also a lot of 3rd party apps seem to be filling in capability gaps. It's unclear if this will be folded back into the core or if they are looking at features that other Fediverse software, such as Calckey, implements.
The lack of moderation on BlueSky seems to have bitten it now.
Not mentioned in your "I didn't bother with these list" is T2. Also small, invite beta style so not sure if it will go anywhere.
I get that "load time" is a metric. Spoutible is noticeably slower, but not enough that it really affected my experience. I don't have software set up to measure load times and ping returns to sites. But, I am old school (had internet since 1995) so I have a lot more patience for slightly laggy load times than most people. (I'd start loading a grainy 20-second video, go get breakfast, and watch it when I got back and that was awesome!)
Not so much slow but spinning wheel of death unresponsive. It seems to be getting better as they throw more resources at it but as Meta will no doubt discover with Threads first impressions count.
Spoutible have deployed Cloudflare and that may be helping (it would certainly make ping times look good as long as the link between the local Cloudflare front end and the Spoutible back end remains responsive).
I've been building bits of the Internet infrastructure since the late 1980's so I can differentiate lag and broken.
"Mastodon seems like something people who drive manual transmissions and program in Unix would love." -- as I've commented on Mastodon, I miss my manual transmission car. Thank you for this analysis, Brynn.
Spoutible is built on a readily available PHP script called "ColibriSM", which just cost a few bucks - you can check @doubtible on Twitter, they use the same one and debunk most of Spoutible CEO's bogus claims. The developer of ColibriSM, MansurTL, also confirmed that Spoutible is using his script.
Upon release of the platform, Spoutible's CEO forgot to change a default setting for the API, which led to tens of thousands of users' email- and IP-addresses being publicly available for a while.
The userbase is even smaller than he officially claimed (e.g. in the WIRED article). There are still less than 200,000 registered users on the platform and it's already gaining less and less new users each day.
Oh, and Spoutible's CEO is known for being a scammer in the crypto space, where he used the alias "Iconic Expert". He regularly harasses and doxes people on Twitter.
It's interesting that you like the Spoutible UI as it's by far the slowest of the ones I've used (I haven't been tempted to go anywhere near Threads) and seems to just hang for me.
I would have claimed that Mastodon has a form of verification in that you can link your account to an existing web site. Also a lot of 3rd party apps seem to be filling in capability gaps. It's unclear if this will be folded back into the core or if they are looking at features that other Fediverse software, such as Calckey, implements.
The lack of moderation on BlueSky seems to have bitten it now.
Not mentioned in your "I didn't bother with these list" is T2. Also small, invite beta style so not sure if it will go anywhere.
I get that "load time" is a metric. Spoutible is noticeably slower, but not enough that it really affected my experience. I don't have software set up to measure load times and ping returns to sites. But, I am old school (had internet since 1995) so I have a lot more patience for slightly laggy load times than most people. (I'd start loading a grainy 20-second video, go get breakfast, and watch it when I got back and that was awesome!)
Not so much slow but spinning wheel of death unresponsive. It seems to be getting better as they throw more resources at it but as Meta will no doubt discover with Threads first impressions count.
Spoutible have deployed Cloudflare and that may be helping (it would certainly make ping times look good as long as the link between the local Cloudflare front end and the Spoutible back end remains responsive).
I've been building bits of the Internet infrastructure since the late 1980's so I can differentiate lag and broken.