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One thing I didn't like when I tried Mastodon (and I'm talking about the web client implementation here, not the underlying protocol) was that the feed element was too thin and there was no way to increase its width without resorting to inspect element or grease-monkey scripts.

Mastodon thread: https://mastodon.social/@dsandoval/100137860645975194

Good part is that people actually replied to me, instead of the 0 interaction I would have gotten on twitter.

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Mastodon has alternative front-ends, a lot of instances have:

* pleroma front/back-end alternative, e.g. https://soteria.mastodon.host/

* pinafore front-end, e.g. https://pinafore.mastodon.host/

I am using this in userContent.css with Firefox for Mastodon:

    @-moz-document domain(mastodon.social) {
        .column {
            width: 450px !important;
        }
    }

And this for Tweetdeck:

    @-moz-document domain(tweetdeck.twitter.com) {
        .is-wide-columns .column {
            width: 500px !important;
        }
    }

The default UI in Mastodon is definitely its worst problem. Who decided 225x150 was a reasonable size for displaying images?!

Interesting, I just joined a week ago and had the same feeling from the start, I was even looking in the settings but couldn't find anything. I wonder if I could change it to use the full width of the window. It's free software and I know CSS, I could try to create a pull request on Github.

Btw. I decided to host my stuff myself: https://toot.jeena.net/@jeena

If you run your instance you can define your own layout css in the admin options for you and your users (my example https://toot.wales has a wider layout)

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