Umbra, Twitter is amazing now
CanniBallistic_Puppy, All the idiots are still on shitter and idiots are how influencers make money.
Lininop, And then you have people on here, which are also idiots but with a superiority complex!
Roundcat, 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.
original_ish_name, But I am superior
ModernRisk, Curiosity, what is Bluesky? Never heard of it.
someguy3, Jack Dorsey’s new project. Essentially a new Twitter.
soloner, He should call it Twitter now that the name is available again. Wouldn’t that be hilarious if he just made Twitter all over again and everyone on X went back to Twitter?
I know that won’t happen but it would be super funny to see how Elon reacts to it.
jungekatz, Unfortunately thats not how trademarks work
Rozauhtuno, But if the rat stops using the Twitter trademark he’s gonna lose it, right?
jungekatz, No musk when purchased twitter, the trademark was part of it , he can hold on to it as long as they want !
smileyhead, A worse version of ActivityPub
HappyMeatbag, (edited ) 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.
Resol, 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.
itsgroundhogdayagain, 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.
Roundcat, (edited ) 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.
DrQuint, 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.
kspatlas, Maybe try just browsing the local feed or looking up hashtags of things you like, might help you find new people
Comment105, 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.
thefartographer, Beep boop, I’m a bot or some shit like that.
I’m sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with
I miss it so bad.
This makes my face sad. I see you’ve already tried troubleshooting bytry to make Mastadon work but it jus…
and were perhaps unsuccessful. We’re always trying to improve, in fact we independently recently identified an issue withJust having bots echo what those accounts say along wi…
and were impressed that you’d even notice such a specific issue! Less than 1% of our users are as talented and observant as you are. We truly care, so keep those comments coming and we can help youinteraction makes it less fun.
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OsrsNeedsF2P, What the
thefartographer, 44 unique clicks and only 3 responses to my form… We gotta get those numbers up!!!
superkret, It needs a Google account so I’m out.
Getallen, ??? what It just needs an email account, not necessarily google.
thefartographer, Fuck Google, why does it need any accounts? I know I’m the one who chose to use Google, but also, fuck Google.
thefartographer, That’s a healthy choice
people_are_cute, 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.
Eheran, 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.
PeleSpirit, I think it’s a great platform for people who like celebrities or talking heads. I don’t care about those people so I was more into reddit where it was more like anonymous peers. Lemmy takes the place of reddit super well but I could see why Mastodon doesn’t because there are no celebrities or talking heads.
loaExMachina, talking heads
You may find yourself
Posting on a shutdown server
And you may find yourself
In another part of the web
And you may find yourself
On a beautiful site
With a beautiful admin
And you may say to yourself
How did I get here?
Dee, This made my day, thank you.
Mixel, So true!!
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