To be honest I like the idea of being able to move my account from a server which is offline to a different one. We should have it with ActivityPub too.

  • DJDarren@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I mooched over to Twitter yesterday to gawp at the car crash, and saw a number of people begging for Bluesky invites. And all I could think is that Mastodon is right there already, working essentially the same way…

    • batcheck@beehaw.org
      English
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      2 years ago

      I “feel” like one of the main issues with foss tools like Lemmy and Mastadon is lack of an advertising budget.

      Going to throw a wild guess out there without a lot of supporting data, but I suspect Bluesky has a decent budget for influencers and that’s driving the traffic too.

      Just a thought. I’ve been sitting here wondering why most people have not jumped and Lemmy and Mastadon yet. I personally don’t find either platform hard to use or confusing.

      • Donkdonkboom@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I deleted twitter ages ago but never jumped to Mastadon because the initial descriptions seemed overly technical and confusing. Like people went out of their way to describe how it was different and unique, making it sound difficult. It was only after the Reddit debacle and trying out Lemmy did I realize it was basically the same thing to an average user. I could get my content drip without specialized knowledge. That makes me consider trying out Mastadon.

        I think most people don’t care how they get their memes, just that they get them. That should be the focus, and learning about federated systems is a byproduct.

        • mitch@beehaw.org
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          2 years ago

          I tell people that Mastodon is Twitter with an RSS reader mashed in.

      • DJDarren@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Honestly, from what I can tell, and if I think back to when I jumped over in November, I think it mostly comes down to how much quieter the feed is to start with.

        If you think, you’re going from a site with an algorithmically generated feed that’s made to feel intentionally noisy, to a chronological feed that’s only as busy as who you follow. That didn’t bother me too much because 95% of my Twitter intake was done via Tweetbot, which didn’t use the algorithm at all, so Mastodon felt much the same.

        But to someone who uses the website, it’s a huge change.

        Ultimately - and the same is true here - you can jumpstart your experience by following everything and everyone, then filter out the stuff you’re not so much into. But you need to hang around long enough to see someone suggest that. And that’s where the problem lies.

      • DJDarren@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        I’m ok with the influencers not bothering with Mastodon, tbh.

        I mean, sure they’ll take the numbers with them where they go, but from my own perspective, I’m not struggling to find good people to follow so does it matter to me if the usual celebrities don’t keep getting boosted into my TL all the time?

        Mastodon is working fine. There are plenty of people using it. It doesn’t need Twitter’s scraps.