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Stop using the platform, if you insist on continuing to use it, you deserve the shit show you are getting. End of story.
The whole fiasco motivated me to create mastodon account. The crazy thing is that I never used Twitter.
Also I don't get why people are complaining that mastodon is difficult. It seems to me is quite simple, or am I missing something?
They probably struggle to follow accounts from different instances, but it's really not any harder than an email address.
It's not necessarily so easy, there aren't substitutes for a lot of the communities on twitter. Though I did just get into Bluesky the other day and am already spending more time in there than on twitter.
Mastodon has been working really well for me once I followed people. Connect well with Lemmy as well which I like. Hopefully more “official” accounts come in.
Been using Mastodon since 2018 and it's brutally frustrating waiting for people to move to it.
It's a really stable platform, and the various instance communities are pretty great.
But I have no fuckin clue why it's not growing in adoption by Internet Normans.
Although, after the rate limiting issue, a whole shitload of people have signed up, so it's promising.
Normies hate that Linuxy feel. I'm not hugely fond of the bare metal feel of federated social networks myself, and I've been doing the computer thing for... uh, when was the VIC-20 released again? Don't underestimate the persuasive power of a friendly interface.
I dunno, between elk.zone or trunks.social, I don't find the interface all that bad.
I've been in Mastodon for a few months and Bluesky for a few days, and Bluesky just blows it out of the water as a twitter replacement. Easier technically, a lot more of the people I follow are on there, people are easier to find, and most importantly the algorithm encourages rather than discourages engagement.
I find there's no "discouraging". Rather it's just posts. The "engagement" aspect of Twitter and modern social media is imo the one thing that's most important to leave behind. It's not healthy.
Do you use the official app or is there a 3rd party app that's better? I saw they updated the official one and was thinking about jumping in since I'm liking Lemmy.
Both the official and Ice Cubes work pretty well for me. I was in no way a power user for Twitter though. But after following the people I really wanted to the feed seemed fairly curated to me. Reminded me of the very early days of Twitter :)
I've been meaning to try out Bluesky, but I've been stuck on the waitlist since it opened up.
I don't suppose you happen to have any invite codes you aren't using? :D
bsky-social-u7g3b-jxasy
If you get one pass one down please.
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It's not necessarily so easy, there aren't substitutes for a lot of the communities on twitter. Though I did just get into Bluesky the other day and am already spending more time in there than on twitter.
Why not mastodon?
You can retweet/boost and comment on mastodon toots/tweets on kbin.
Because, especially for artists and creators seeking to publicize their work, it's not widely adopted enough. They need their work shared to as many eyeballs as possible in hopes to sell. Mastodon is fine for personal use, but it doesn't fit the business needs of these creators, I can't blame any creator for staying on Twitter until their inevitable end, because the growing pains of alternatives will be difficult to weather.
It's not widely adopted enough because artists and creators aren't using it enough. Chicken or egg?
Yet, Mastodon had a big discoverability problem. No follow recommendations, no "highlights" tab, no search practically as follows don't think to hashtag.
There might be many great artists and creators on Mastodon, but good luck finding them!
Why? Just use Mastadon. I've been using it for months it's great.
Agreed, I am desperate to use something else, but the only place I can find a community is on Twitter. It’s not a techie community either, so the reason to move to something else has to be compelling and low barriers to entry. So far nothing else hits the mark.
Look, Twitter is going to die. When it dies you will have nothing in Twitter. This is the absolute truth that we know will happen. This "community" feeling is not going to be the same, not in Bluesky, not in Mastodon or Lemmy. When Twitter first started, people wanted the forums like feeling, we never got that feeling ever again. People who liked chatrooms, never got the chatroom feeling. Just as i will never feel those again, you too will not feel that Twitter feeling when Twitter dies.