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.
Memes
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
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.
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 by try 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 with Just 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 you interaction makes it less fun.
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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.
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
I'd be down to use Mastodon but no one I know uses it so there's nothing to do. Pain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Any change requires inertia
*requires overcoming inertia.
yeh
The reality 🙄