I like the long form posts and I also find those sort of sites way too fast-moving to keep up with.
Maybe it’s because I’m an old man who grew up on BBSes, but forums are much more my speed.
I tried Bluesky but just couldn’t get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I’m liking Threads, too.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
tja@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
What would you say makes threads better than the other mikroblogging services?
dan@upvote.au 4 weeks ago
I think one of the main reasons is that a lot of tech people on Twitter ended up on there. Mastodon originally filled that spot for me, but I found that a bunch of people that moved from Twitter to Mastodon ended up abandoning their accounts (or very rarely posting) a few months later.
It’s also probably the largest Fediverse instance, as users can opt in to sharing their posts to the Fediverse.
I still don’t use it often, though. I don’t spend a lot of time on any social networks (or similar services) any more.
nutsack@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mastodon has shitty clients, the servers are slow and the communication across them is buggy, and a ton of stuff is still just broken. most of the time I’ll open the client on Android and just stare for 15 seconds at a spinning “wait” symbol, and then I’ll close it and not look at it for the rest of the day.
tja@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yes, that might be your instance? I never had that problem. And I also think there are now some very good clients