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  •  Kaldo   ( @Kaldo@kbin.social ) 
    7•1 year ago

    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”.

      •  FaceDeer   ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 
        5•1 year ago

        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.

      •  May   ( @May@kbin.social ) 
        2•1 year ago

        Yea tbh i respect it, ive been off twitter for like a year it was just nsfw posting anyway. but people are like “switch from that thing to this thing” then like “why did u expect this thing to be like that thing?!” like ??? Bc u claimed it was an alternative? So no wasnt expecting something so different. Would u expect a sugar alternative NOT to be sweet? If u bought a sugar alternative and it was just straight up salty youd be pretty surpised no? Ya it might not taste exactly like sugar but is pretty close and can be used the same way usually. Thats what makes it an alternative not just something else. I dont mind much tho bc like I said i wasnt even that active on twitter and it was just for posting nsfw not really following ppl or stuff.

    •  Chozo   ( @Chozo@kbin.social ) 
      2•1 year ago

      it’s missing 99% people I actually care about following on twitter

      This is what’s stopping me from really giving Mastodon a shot. Nobody that I care about uses it, except for a few bot accounts that are just mirroring that user’s existing Twitter feed, and they’re not even monitoring those accounts on Mastodon so trying to interact with them is fruitless.

    •  Hypx   ( @Hypx@kbin.social ) 
      2•1 year ago

      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.

      •  AJ   ( @AndrewMettier@mastodon.social ) 
        3•1 year ago

        @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