While I agree that it makes Mastodon less entertaining I also think that it makes it a lot more fair, representative and trustworthy as a lens through which to observe & participate in social discourse and share information and opinions. That in itself will probably mean that it remains less popular but I think it’s also what makes it more valuable IMO. We need to calm down from the urgency of the digital dopamine cycle, for many reasons. If social media is a truly human media then it should be boring at times because that is a human reality that we are adapted to.
I’ve stopped recommending it. The discovery and trending post mechanisms are either garbage or non-existent, and it’s really hard to get a feed that’s remotely entertaining. Devs also seem ideologically opposed to adding any features like that. It’ll just give normal people who aren’t willing to deal with all this crap a bad taste in their mouth when it comes to the fediverse. I do recommend lemmy to people tho.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 3 days ago
moormaan@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I agree. I love Mastodon’s calm columnar UI with lists and hashtags where I feel I’m in control of my experience, and that I can just stop whenever and come back in three days.
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah fair points. I will say this implosion of the social media I used to use has pushed me towards doing other things than scrolling on my phone lol, and that is a positive thing.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I wonder if they’re afraid of Eternal September’ing the service. A lot of people on Lemmy were upset when a bunch of people on Reddit joined. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have millions join in one day. I doubt it would be good for the culture of the community!
can@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
A lot of people on Lemmy were upset when a bunch of people on Reddit joined
How many active users were there pre API fisaco? Fedidb graph doesn’t go back that far.
Rolando@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lemmy had around 1000 active users for the first half of 2023.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
As someone who used lemmy pre migration, yeah it wasn’t exactly active
can@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
How did you view earlier in the chart? I figured it was low since maybe five instances existed before summer '23.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Most of the people upset when redditors joined were former redditors.
can@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah but they left before us so clearly they’re superior.
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s fair I suppose.
jaxiiruff@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Lemmy and Bluesky are what I use too, atproto is just much more promising for microblogging than activitypub and Mastodon proves that. Lemmy is perfect for it though.
clot27@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Exactly, their official app is just pure garabage and they aren’t even trying to fix it
Aachen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Wdym they aren’t trying to fix it, their GitHub repo is very much active.
Though as for pure garbage, the app ain’t that bad IMO apart from the fact it’s made with React Native.
naught@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Why is React Native garbage?
Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 days ago
It’s not perfect? Interesting. I’m sure that will be a deal-breaker for people exiting a failing platform run by a megalomaniacal MAGA asshole actively harming working people…
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Or just use neither, like I’ve ended up doing.
actually@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Another issue I had was hundreds of saved toots having had awesome pictures, important data or things to do.
I saved them hoping to use some later, but it all remained an unorganized glop: unusable unless I looked at each one again, in order, to find the 75th one back, about a cat
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 days ago
Yeah, once we have mastodon-wide full text search, it’ll be useful.
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 3 days ago
I know what you mean. I’m self-hosting and use relay.fedi.buzz to subscribe to hashtags from all over the fedimicroblogosphere. It’s literally too much interesting content, I kept scrolling new stuff for hours and had to cut down on what tags I subscribed to. It’s like that Lemmy explorer but for microblogging.
I think a reasonable admin should be open to using the service to populate the federated timeline with niché content users ask for.
The only downside is “catch all”-tags and people abusing tags. “Hey #fediverse, check out my XYZ!”. No, I want fediverse news dang it!
But the dev stuff? Yeah.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 days ago
fedimicroblogosphere
Please never say that again
drmoose@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I feel like its the opposite.
Mastodon’s hashtag following is by far the best discovery method out there.
I’ve stopped using Bluesky because I can’t find any content and Threads it’s just engagement bait.
anoncity@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah Threads has nothing of substance, just engagement bait as you said. X is similar now that users can make ad revenue
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I disagree, I just think some kind of engagement algorithm would be better. I haven’t used bluesky or threads so I can’t speak to them. I’m just saying that back in the day on twitter, I had no problem finding a bunch of very funny and clever posts, and posts were catered to me well. Through both me following people and I assume through the engagement algorithm. I’ve tried adding a bunch of hashtags, but I’m not finding a bunch of hilarious stuff to send to my friends like I did back then on twitter.
Bunch of spam too, because bots use the hashtags, so I’m often scrolling through a bunch of auto-posted stuff. Idk. Maybe I’m using it wrong. I just feel like your average person isn’t going to go through all that crap so they’ll cling to twitter until it dies.
And I’ve tried switching instances around, which is just confusing honestly, and didn’t really help with finding lots of content that I want to see. I used mastodon more when I was able to mirror people I know are funny on twitter to my mastodon feed lol. I want to like it, I just find I’m never tempted to go on it. Can’t figure it out.
leftist_lawyer@lemmy.today 3 days ago
Is that you, Elon?
Aachen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What do valid criticisms/grievances about Mastodon have to do with the poster being Elon?
ruckblack@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Groan