fediverse admins disgruntled with mastodon 4.0, please send me your critiques 
@Lady you’ve heard most of mine but to try to put them in one place:
- dislike home page defaulting to /explore instead of /about/more — I have never once wanted to see another instances federated timeline and I have only very rarely been interested in browsing their tags. On the other hand “whos the admin” or “how large is this instance” or “do they have a policy against [thing I’m considering reporting one of their users for]“ are questions I have more or less constantly. Also ideologically I think communities should be able to self define which about facilitates and explore does not
- also, strongly dislike the new /about/more design (these two are the biggest like, “please fix this ASAP” requests for me lol)
- no remote follow/reply 😭😭😭😭
- the sidebar is super irritating on mobile when you’re trying to just read a thread (or another long-form thing like /about/more) bc it takes up like half the fucking screen
- “get the app” link in footer — wtf???
- get rid of “publish”, post is fine or we can do some cute theming thing like mew
@Satsuma can you be more specific about what you dislike with the new /about/more?
@Lady
- mobile accessibility issues: you’ve got the general issue of the sidebar taking up space which is then exacerbated on about more by the fact that everything has been put into boxes thus wasting further screen space eg, compare the amount of useable space in our current page vs .coffees (chosen at random bc it was an instance I’d viewed recently thats on 4+)
- the “server rules” section appears to be highly limited in a way that seems to flatten communication to a set of contextless checkboxes (I’d need to investigate more to be sure of this but I haven’t seen a single one so far with rules more than a couple sentences, no allowances for internal structure/subheadings etc)
- what cat said about not allowing html, if true, would fucking suck. see previous rants about importance of community culture & self definition
the overall effect seems to be to make instances more visually similar & discourage any kind of longform / nuanced communication through a variety of unwelcome changes
@Satsuma like i didn't define server rules when we first started this server and i think you literally couldn't report posts in some apps lol