I can kinda get it. There are tons of servers, all with different rules, and I'm guessing some don't federate with eachother. I compared ~20 servers rules and how fast they loaded before chosing one.

Search sucks. Home feed is only chronological, so you need be careful about who you follow. I.e. if you follow someone that posts important stuff, but only weekly, it will get drowned out by following people that post every hour. Then there's the weird design issue that all replies aren't necessarily synced between servers, which is unituitive.

Mastodon needs to implement some kind of better search, and a better algorithm for the home feed, and make it the default.

Journalists are just going to go where the most people are because it's their job to self-promote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is kinda hard finding interesting people to follow. Hardly anyone I would have followed on Twitter is on Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The fundamental problem there is that. Finding people and following them is one click on twitter, on mastodon it's a whole busy thing. I can't stand it

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I just don't use Mastodon because I never cared for Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Its easy to signup & get started, just have to be awake...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still don't even know what the servers on lemmy are, each "subreddit" is a different server?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They should try navigating Facebook

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yeah the new Facebooj ui is so fucking confusing.
they don't even think of their target audience lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Someone who hasn't used Facebook for over 6 years, I'm still trying to convince my grandfather that I don't actually know anything about the platform and that he probably knows more about Facebook than I do. cause honestly I don't recognize it anymore

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest, I'm not tech illiterate and still struggle with Mastodon. I struggle to search/find stuff to follow outside of my local server. I know it's there and doable, but it should be obvious on how to find what I want to follow. If I struggle even a little bit with this, the average casual user, which these platforms will need for long term success, won't even bother.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would love to switch to it but I honestly find no reason to do so, I'm happy with Twitter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gasp! I'm not sure you can say that around these parts. Personally I always hated Twitter. I was on there during the Arab spring, and I'm pretty quickly just stopped logging in.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry if this is a dumb but I legit never got into Twitter, and I only use Instagram to follow friends and bands I like.

How do I Mastadon? I'm not being sarcastic, not even a little. Like I literally have absolutely no concept of what I'm supposed to do on it or how to engage with it. Same with pixelfed tbh, like I open it, I see a milliong posts that have no comments or likes, I get confused and then I leave.

Like what do you do? How do you use it? Pretend I'm one of the idiot journalists this post is making fun of, happy to jump on that self-accepting sword!