Mastodon is better anyway. I deleted Twitter ages ago when Musk took over. It’s amazing how many people have stayed there despite how much he’s shit all over the userbase. He makes Spez look like a saint.
Mastodon might be “better” but it’s in a completely different league if it’s missing 99% people I actually care about following on twitter. On mastodon the feed is just random people talking about their personal stuff and misusing hashtags, and usually when you bring this up the answer is “well duh, mastodon is not supposed to be twitter, it is its own thing”.
Agreed. There’s a lot mixed messaging from the userbase where we’re recommended to switch to Mastodon from Twitter but also respect that Mastodon is not supposed to be a Twitter replacement.
It may not be a Twitter replacement, but perhaps it can still fulfill whatever specific needs they’re currently fulfilling using Twitter.
I’m not the best person to judge since I never really “got” Twitter in the first place, but the basic function of “announcing a small piece of text to the world” is shared by a whole lot of different platforms.
Twitter was just like that a few years ago. If Twitter keeps getting worse, it will not be hard to improve Mastodon to the point where it will be better than Twitter at its own game.
@Hypx@trashhalo@African_Grey@Kaldo I think it also may be worth noting that Twitter is planned to be a very different app in the future, with its migration with financing software and whatnot, it will not be the Twitter that is known now.
So I think that the likelihood of people that will come over to Mastodon, especially because they miss when Tweeting was the primary function of Twitter, will be a steady increase. It will be quite interesting
Mastodon is better anyway. I deleted Twitter ages ago when Musk took over. It’s amazing how many people have stayed there despite how much he’s shit all over the userbase. He makes Spez look like a saint.
Mastodon might be “better” but it’s in a completely different league if it’s missing 99% people I actually care about following on twitter. On mastodon the feed is just random people talking about their personal stuff and misusing hashtags, and usually when you bring this up the answer is “well duh, mastodon is not supposed to be twitter, it is its own thing”.
Agreed. There’s a lot mixed messaging from the userbase where we’re recommended to switch to Mastodon from Twitter but also respect that Mastodon is not supposed to be a Twitter replacement.
It may not be a Twitter replacement, but perhaps it can still fulfill whatever specific needs they’re currently fulfilling using Twitter.
I’m not the best person to judge since I never really “got” Twitter in the first place, but the basic function of “announcing a small piece of text to the world” is shared by a whole lot of different platforms.
Twitter was just like that a few years ago. If Twitter keeps getting worse, it will not be hard to improve Mastodon to the point where it will be better than Twitter at its own game.
@Hypx @trashhalo @African_Grey @Kaldo I think it also may be worth noting that Twitter is planned to be a very different app in the future, with its migration with financing software and whatnot, it will not be the Twitter that is known now.
So I think that the likelihood of people that will come over to Mastodon, especially because they miss when Tweeting was the primary function of Twitter, will be a steady increase. It will be quite interesting