Governments spend billions on propaganda, world politicians use twitter because there are agreements and the platform is trusted.
Stop saying that mastodon suck, it doesn’t and it’s much better than twitter or bluesky.
Ask yourself why people all flock to the same platform.
Because someone they know or they are following use that platform.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 days ago
You are, intentionally or otherwise, distorting what I said. Who cares about “me” - yes I stopped recommending Fediverse tools bc it’s useless to do so especially when the developers themselves don’t even seem to care about making it a good platform to use for others besides themselves, meh it’s their code and their right to do whatever they wish - but anyway I’m just one person.
What I said though was that journalists are writing articles saying how much Mastodon sucks. That could have been listened and responded to, but instead the concept was attempted to be buried, and the position of the person offering such rejected - exactly as you are doing here to me now btw, as if consent of the governed should not matter somehow, and they all just need to suck it up, get with the program, and use the same platform regardless of what it personally costs them? That btw is also the identical position of X as well.
I even included a link to one example of such an article. There are MANY others.
I hope you choose to be curious, rather than think that you already have the answer. There is so much more that I think that you are missing here. We seem to not have the same goal at all if I would like to entice people to use the platform but you would rather tell people that they “must” - that approach will not work out well in the end, imho, and you do not get to decide what is “better” in the minds of other people. If others likewise display it, that kind of hubris will continue to leave Mastodon in the forgotten bin of history. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Distorting what you are saying? You keep saying the feediverse is bad, It’s not. Go back to reddit.
OpenStars@discuss.online 17 hours ago
I said that journalists said that Mastodon is bad. Personally I love PieFed and the Lemmy software isn’t half bad, plus both are improving, the former swiftly and the latter slowly but does grow. I don’t know what is holding Mastodon back, as I do not code in those languages. I only tried to help shine light on a diagnosis that could help us move forward past whatever it is that represents people’s major obstacle to joining Mastodon, or yeah perhaps the Threadiverse instead would be more to their liking.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
There’s always room for improvement but i believe there’s not much drastically wrong with mastodon, the obstacle is people themself conforming to whatever is popular you could pay them to join mastodon and they would still not do it, see how they would rather pay for windows than switch to linux.