I miss it so bad. I try to make Mastadon work but it just doesn’t without the people I want to hear from. Just having bots echo what those accounts say along with the lack of interaction makes it less fun.
I’ve just learned to follow smaller accounts with similar interest. As a celebrity follow machine, it’s awful because nobody is really on there officially except for a handful of people.
Hashtags are much more important on Masto too cause without an algorithm, its one of the only ways your posts are visible to others. I find with the right combo of tags though, I can get a decent amount of interaction.
There was a good solid week where most of my attention was focused on Mastodon. I guess it all depends on what you were originally using twitter for. I guess it clicked for me cause I barely used twitter to begin with.
hashtag are much more important on Masto
And this is why the First Twitter Exodus was so miserable. Back then following tags or searching tags was a part of the interface but didn’t work.
Maybe try just browsing the local feed or looking up hashtags of things you like, might help you find new people
Maybe a monthly/quarterly coordinated push to get people to migrate would be more effective at making it push through, rather than tiny blips of “Hey, maybe Mastodon?” on occasion.
And then whenever people inevitably try it and decide not to stay, as I did, make sure to pick up on any feedback and take it seriously. Maybe after a year it’ll be a genuinely desirable alternative.
I personally think it’s a messy pile of junk.
Beep boop, I’m a bot or some shit like that.
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What the
44 unique clicks and only 3 responses to my form… We gotta get those numbers up!!!
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??? what It just needs an email account, not necessarily google.
Fuck Google, why does it need any accounts? I know I’m the one who chose to use Google, but also, fuck Google.
That’s a healthy choice
I think it just shows how weak willed and lacking in self control people are.
I mean for people who aren’t influencers it doesn’t make much sense. For influencers, even though some people hate twitter or whatever its called now it is the place with one of the largest presences/userbases around. Many influencers use that to their advantage to grow their own userbase. Some influencers can move over and maybe convert some of their audiences over but realistically you need a very big player to do it beforehand.
As a former redditor, fair.
When people dont wanna switch to madtodon because its another app and too lazy to set it up but everyone suddenly starts using threads when facebook releases it.
It’s a lot easier when it’s a seamless transition vs a new platform. Also, it seems like the usage took a nosedive.
I’m glad it did. Imagine: People keep complaining about Xitter, refuse to use Mastodon, then suddenly all migrate to Meta because new platform hype. This almost actually happened and I think the only reasons it didn’t is that Threads is inaccessible in Europe and from what I’ve heard the app was crap.
It truly baffles me that anyone at all is still on the platform formerly known as twitter at this point.
Twitter is just furry porn now.
It’d honestly be hilarious if instead of the “free speech” right wing hellscape elon is trying to make, it just became the number 1 furry community on the internet.
It already is
Oh no. Can you list some accounts I should block to avoid all the hot furry porn?
Basically to blcok 90% its easiest to block all of them with the 🔞 emoji.
Wait a minute…
Or like all the youtubers making bank by complaining about youtube.
Tf is firefish?
Formerly known as Calckey. Twitter replacement similarly to Mastodon. Also uses ActivityPub.
Using it rn, it’s forked from Misskey and is in alpha rn
It feels like mastodon but they sprinkled in a few telegram features tbh.
Much better than mastodon in terms of user experience tho
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I’d be down to use Mastodon but no one I know uses it so there’s nothing to do. Pain.
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For real. I hang out with my friends IRL, I don’t need to follow them online. I’m on Mastodon to get what they can’t offer (all my friends are idiots).
I use Instagram for talking to friends (and others my age from my country), and mastodon for online friends, and more tech-savvy people.
It’s a shame but it’s also true none of the options are a real alternative to Twitter. Twitter’s main strength comes from the number of creators it has and the discoverability of content for general users. None have succeeded in breaking it.
Discoverability of content above average? On Twitter? An I doing something wrong? The only time I end up on Twitter is when someone links to it. Following or even searching in comments is essentially not possible.
All the idiots are still on shitter and idiots are how influencers make money.
And then you have people on here, which are also idiots but with a superiority complex!
You’re talking to a site with many former redditors who left a lot of comfort and communities behind to tell the reddit staff they can’t get any with infringing on users’ safety, comfort, and accessibility. afaic they are superior cause by simply being here, helping fediverse grow, and interacting with reddit as little as possible, they are sending that message louder and clearer than any of the redditors who caved in their protests and remained.
I shit on former redditors a lot. I complain about some of the culture they dragged along with them that is neither conductive or helpful to creating meaningful conversation. I even complain sometimes this place can feel a lot like reddit at times. But if there is one thing I can say about much of the former reddit community here is they are people of their convictions. Their integrity meant more to them than the comfort they enjoyed on the former site.
But I am superior
Curiosity, what is Bluesky? Never heard of it.
It’s the fediverse Lite (doesn’t work with ActivityPub, it’s its own protocol). It’s also Twitter Lite (created by the founder of Twitter, now known as X). It’s the worst of both worlds.
A worse version of ActivityPub
Bluesky started out being owned by Twitter (pre Musk), but became a completely separate company (also pre Musk). Somewhat like Mastadon, it is intended to be decentralized. It’s still in beta, so it’s not freely open to the public yet - you have to get an invitation from someone who already uses it.
How do they plan to make money? “We’ll be publishing a blog post on our monetization plans in a few weeks, and we’ll share more then” according to Emily Liu, part of the Bluesky team.
I could also call it the “Linux struggle”
"Windows and Microsoft spy on you, it breaks, it’s heavy, its hardware requirements are too hard, windows updates…
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you could try Linux, you can even game on it nowadays.
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naaah it’s too complicated. Anyway, gotta edit the registry to disable a feature"
:(
I’ve got a dual boot currently, with windows exclusively for gaming and ubuntu for everything else. Would love to fully switch to linux, but some games still don’t work on it, and then there’s gamepass of course, which likely never will.
It IS too complicated tho. I consider myself pretty techy, but my Linux experience, just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online for answers.
Sadly, it got me REAL turned off Linux. I love the concept of it, but at the end of the day, I just want something that works.
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Really, I’m still on Twitter because I follow a lot of my favorite artists there, and they sure don’t have Mastodon.
Artists are the only thing I miss. Yes, I did already find a bunch of new ones on mastodon, but it’s still not nearly enough.
So true!!
“youtuber” and “still uses twitter exclusively” hmmmmmmmmmm. lol.
Well it’s not like the Youtube comment section is where I would expect anyone to safely interact.
Addiction is a helluva thing
