Like I get there are several reasons people remain. It just feels kinda weird to listen to a podcaster or youtuber go off on twittter, yet they still use twitter exclusively.
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.
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.
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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...
:(
It IS too complicated tho. I consider myself pretty techy, but my Linux experience, just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online for answers.
Sadly, it got me REAL turned off Linux. I love the concept of it, but at the end of the day, I just want something that works.
just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online
Why, are you using Gentoo?
Package management is by far one of the easiest things on Linux, especially with Flatpak, even easier than on Windows that, for comparison, got a package manager only recently and it's still barebones af
I've run into these issues in the few years since I've switched. Old outdated stuff or windows exclusive software can be a hassle to get running. Possible, but your putting a square peg in a round hole.
Were flatpaks a thing when you tried Linux last? Flatpak makes installing most programs extremely easy. I just search my distros software store and hit install. As a bonus, you often get newer versions than when you install software traditionally, and updates can be set to automatically download.
I've run Pop OS since 2019. I have never reinstalled and I only touch the terminal maybe once every 6 months. Absolutely everything I do is GUI.
You forgot the '/s'.
Yes, let me just buy a new CPU, disable telemetry by this random EXE from the internet, and get everything broken with every update.
Not even drivers are better on Windows.
Besides, what do you download and on which distro to solve dependencies manually?
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.
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.
With twitter in particular, I really really don't get how any leftists are still on there. Its like, beguiling.
Honestly, if you are any kind of a progressive or leftist or just don't identify as a rightwing piece of shit, and are still on twitter once Elon took it over, you might be a part of the problem.
I know its an extreme take, but I'm like, fresh out of fucks.
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.
Too many people are just so basic they won't even consider trying anything but "mainstream". If Lemmy or Mastodon became mainstream platforms, you can bet they would come in masses because "there's where everyone's at."
It truly baffles me that anyone at all is still on the platform formerly known as twitter at this point.
I'd be down to use Mastodon but no one I know uses it so there's nothing to do. Pain.
I only use twitter through nitter. I just want these people to mirror their shit to an RSS feed.
Or like all the youtubers making bank by complaining about youtube.
Really, I'm still on Twitter because I follow a lot of my favorite artists there, and they sure don't have Mastodon.
Consider a custom client like Quacker if you only lurk.
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.
All the idiots are still on shitter and idiots are how influencers make money.
And then you have people on here, which are also idiots but with a superiority complex!
You're talking to a site with many former redditors who left a lot of comfort and communities behind to tell the reddit staff they can't get any with infringing on users' safety, comfort, and accessibility. afaic they are superior cause by simply being here, helping fediverse grow, and interacting with reddit as little as possible, they are sending that message louder and clearer than any of the redditors who caved in their protests and remained.
I shit on former redditors a lot. I complain about some of the culture they dragged along with them that is neither conductive or helpful to creating meaningful conversation. I even complain sometimes this place can feel a lot like reddit at times. But if there is one thing I can say about much of the former reddit community here is they are people of their convictions. Their integrity meant more to them than the comfort they enjoyed on the former site.
But I am superior
Curiosity, what is Bluesky? Never heard of it.
Jack Dorsey's new project. Essentially a new Twitter.
A worse version of ActivityPub
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.
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.
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.
“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.
So true!!
Any change requires inertia
requires overcoming inertia.
yeh
Addiction is a helluva thing
I want to steal get a copy of this for reasons.
Can we get it with better quality? 😜 😜
This is the very first time I’ve even heard of Firefish.
AFAICT it used to be called Calckey
Oh! That’s something I’ve heard of.
The reality 🙄