You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.
It’s almost identical to Twitter before Twitter adopted “The Algorithm” about 7 years ago and stopped showing people posts in a chronological order. There are some differences though, some annoying, and the latter is mostly being worked on:
Positives:
Chronological view
(Though this seems to upset people for some reason): Choice of server - including start your own if you’d prefer
Up to 500 characters, or even more if your admin allows
Very few Nazis, general anti-Nazi stance by most admins and servers that tolerate Nazis tend to end up being defedded (disconnected) from the core network though they can federate with one another.
"TW"s, ways to ensure posts are collapsed by default unless you want to see the contents
Negatives:
Search doesn’t really work. Plain text is generally unavailable, and you’re supposed to use hashtags. People are recognizing it doesn’t work though and are discussing how it should work. But no consensus yet.
Quote tweets are not here yet
TWs only collapse the text, not graphics, for some reason.
Reading reply threads is broken - your server generally only sees a subset of replies and you have to visit the original post on its home server to see all the public replies.
The other thing to watch for is the community. While it’s way less, well, Nazi than Twitter’s, it’s also regularly compared to an HOA, people who post a lot get a lot of meta criticism about how they post, which is… ridiculous.
In general, despite the negatives, I like it, the only thing I miss are some Twitter accounts that were fun to follow. Otherwise it’s a better experience over all, but it does need some of the wrinkles ironed out. Many of the limitations I described in “Negatives” are there for well meaning reasons, but in practice I think they went too far.
In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother
It’s very similar to Twitter, I’d say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @username@instance.tld rather than just @username
You think being inevitably forced to see every bit of harassment and spam is going to make that platform more popular and financially viable? Nah, if anything this is free advertising for Mastodon.
How does mastodon work compared to twitter? I keep hearing about it but I’m still trying to figure out lemmy.
It’s almost identical to Twitter before Twitter adopted “The Algorithm” about 7 years ago and stopped showing people posts in a chronological order. There are some differences though, some annoying, and the latter is mostly being worked on:
Positives:
Negatives:
The other thing to watch for is the community. While it’s way less, well, Nazi than Twitter’s, it’s also regularly compared to an HOA, people who post a lot get a lot of meta criticism about how they post, which is… ridiculous.
In general, despite the negatives, I like it, the only thing I miss are some Twitter accounts that were fun to follow. Otherwise it’s a better experience over all, but it does need some of the wrinkles ironed out. Many of the limitations I described in “Negatives” are there for well meaning reasons, but in practice I think they went too far.
In the same way lemmy is like many reddits communicating with eachother; mastodon is comparable to many twitters that can share users and posts with eachother
It’s very similar to Twitter, I’d say even more than Lemmy is to Reddit. Mastodon federated like Lemmy but in practice you can follow anyone from any instance. You just need to follow people using @username@instance.tld rather than just @username