Well, it goes you a chronological ish timeline. It still insists on trying to insert blocks of "content you might have missed", and it still has crappy conversation views that can't be turned off.
A strictly chronological timeline is only available via third party apps.
Re:Premium Account Activity API
by WorldMaker on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:25PM
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Plus "Promoted Tweets". Those are also out of order, and increasingly just as irritating as the "content you might have missed" blocks.
Also, now the "content you might have missed" stuff is showing up in Notifications and whoever thought that was a good idea?
That only seems plausible if most of the people I want follow are already there.
Twitter had that chicken-and-egg problem too, but do you know how we solved it? We all joined Twitter and then told people we wanted to follow that we were there.
Re:Premium Account Activity API
by johannes1234321 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @07:14PM
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With the difference, that back then Twitter didn't exist. Only in form of IRC or such and Twitter could distinguish from that. A new service has to be unique in a new way.
Re:Premium Account Activity API
by solarkraft on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @08:20PM
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Like not screwing its users over?
Mastodon... it's a platform, not a single entity that I can use.
That might be the tradeoff that has to be made. Pick a Mastodon instance whose administration you trust not to screw you over. If they do you can move to another. If you go with a single entity, you're going to be stuck when they mess with you. Like with Twitter.