Mastodon is the most stable social network I have used in a long time. Love it!
Fediverse
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
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Everyone is okay. I haven't even seen sinophobia yet
1989 Tianneman square protests
That's a lot of people that are realizing Silicon Valley is full of shit
Certainly full of detached CEO's
Who are obsessed with endless growth ideas and introducing subscription models so that you end up with countless of subscriptions.
There's only a certain number of people in the world, and only a subset of them have easy access to the internet, and only a subset of them have disposable income.
Yet infinite profits are the expectation somehow.
Can someone tell me what Mastodon is like please, I have social network fatigue and can't be bothered to try another one? 😅
Microblogging Fediverse app, Lemmy/kbin is to Reddit as Mastodon is to Twitter
Thanks mate.
Also you don’t need a blue check mark to post relatively longer paragraphs.
I think the most enjoyable feature is that there is no algorithm in Fediverse. And decentralization means that if you host your own server for Pixelfed (instagram equivalent) for example, your data will go offline at the moment you disconnect your server from the internet.
Lemmy is great alternative for Reddit especially if you're into tech.
It‘s like Twitter basically, but since it‘s also in the fediverse there is a bit of overlap where Mastodon people can comment on Lemmy/kbin stuff too anyway. Usually they have something like @LostCause and hashtags like #mastodon and so on in their comments, that‘s how I typically spot them.
So their growth is relevant for us, but you don‘t need to make an account there.
Ribbit
I don't think there's any advertising budget being spent on these fedi platforms, which makes it impressive they've grown so much from media exposure and word of mouth.
We growth with big corps big mistakes
The fediverse isn't driven by profit, so growth for the sake of growth isn't necessary. Word of mouth will let the fediverse platforms grow naturally and sustainably
Do they really? I prefer quality over quantity. We don't really need a massive influx of users, just steady growth.
Advertising requires money. Its a slippery slope that'll lead us down the same path as Reddit again. We're better than that.
Very cool, I am one of the 8800 😸
Mastodon is where the intelligent people are filtered to from Twitter. The idiots end up on Threads.
No matter how much FaceMeta disgusts me, at least Threads has some semblance of moderation to keep the MAGA fascists under control. I rather have to deal with idiots than with the far-right cesspool that Twitter is turning into.
Thankfully, we have Mastodon, so I don't have to deal with either. They're both blocked on my PiHole, so I just get a DNS error when I accidentally click on links.
let’s gooo 👏🏼 the fediverse is getting bigger!
Wow, two million users, congratulations Mastodon!
Threads is at 100 million, so if they federate they will still be completely drowned out.
I spent some time on Threads to see how it was and it's a fucking cesspool of like-mongering and look at me oneupsmanship bullshit that was so fucking tiring to look at that I deleted the app after 4 days.
Threads has 100m phantom accounts. A lot of them are bots. Who knows how many of those are real users.
Well, it would best to compare apples to apples, there are 8M total Mastodon accounts to 108M Threads accounts.
For active users if we assume the same active ratio (probably not, but I couldn't find any data for Threads on that from a 1 minute search), then it would be 2 million to 27 million, which is small but it wouldn't "completely" drown out Mastodon.
Been on Mastodon since October 2022.
It's a great platform.
This is great! But generally can't see Mastadon overtaking any other major social platforms until it introduces an equivalent of For you feed from Twitter. The days of following specific people and hashtags is over, it's tedious and I don't give a shit about 3/4s of the feed.
2017-2020 Twitter was absolutely peak Twitter algorithm wise and thousands of users want that exact experience back, yet nobody will provide it.
Yay! I still don’t know how to use anything that looks like twitter tho
New achievement unlocked
Where are all those people. When I open it, I see empty feed.
You gotta follow some people, and also hashtags. Following hashtags made a huge difference populating my feed. There's no algorithm so you get to/have to choose what you want to see.
I also use the ice cubes app for mastodon, which has a trending option also for when I want to see what's gaining traction outside of my follows.
You get out what you put in.
And I still don't know how to use it, as in getting an interesting feed.
Finding people to follow in Mastodon mostly happens by:
- Search topics using hashtags
- Randomly browsing local feeds of different instances
- Randomly browsing the federated feed
- Randomly browsing local feed
There are instances for different interests like game development, art, information security, foss etc so there's a lot of places to dig for good content.
Hashtags are your friend. It also helps if you have some active posters for the tag. I get good content from following #sciencefiction #coffee and #python.
A great win for decentralization and censorship resistant networks!
I would humbly submit calkey as an alternative. It's the best interface I've seen out of anything on the fediverse.
Everything is going according to the plan!
'There is broad consensus among experts that the early 2020s shifts in social media populations were what has come to be called asshole-driven.'
Scraping Assholes-A History of Social Media from 2006-2056
R. McDonald (2069), published by McDonald's Textbook Division, Schaumburg, IL, USA
McDonald’s diversifying into higher education publishing is a scary, and not as far-fetched as it should be, reality.