Mastadon is chock a block with far left crazies.
Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And people aren’t using Mastodon because?
letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Agrivar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Dudebro, seriously, go back to Reddit.
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Holy mother of all Overton Windows. Where are you from for that sentence to sound even close to reasonable?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
By left is crazy, do you mean people who will try to talk to you to find out if you’ve ever laughed at a racist joke before, or people who are literally not nazis?
0ddysseus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its been a while, but i dusted this off just for you:
GTFO
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Lolol you’re actually insane
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right? He said this on Lemmy, which might be even leftier.
MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not enough celebrities there.
13617@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No algorithm
loopedcandle@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Ok. I need, like, a newb’s guide to mastodon. What client should I use? How do I find people?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Blimp is pretty cool
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Tusky is the best Mastodon client by a mile.
You start by finding an “instance” that fits you. There are gardening ones, texh ones, regional ones, fandom ones, whatever. You can easily (and should) join more than one.
Then you hang out on the Local feed, follow people whose stuff you like, follow the people they follow, etc.
After a few days of this your homepage will fill up with stuff for you.
For me, it started slower than Lemmy but I spend way more time there now.
KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Because while the concept isn’t too difficult to understand once it’s explained to you, it’s not easy as going to “Mastodon and signing up”.
The different servers, having to remember other people’s instances along with their username (for example, you can’t just say “omg check out Jack Froth on Mastodon! He’s so funny!”, because where? What instance? Who is it?
Not to mention Mastodon, much like Lemmy, dropped the ball hard when it came to onboarding during the peak interest. When you downloaded the app, you had to manually type in your instance, username, and password, which you had to go to an instance in your web browser to sign up for first.
Now Mastodon gives you the option to sign up like a regular app and it’ll pick a default server for you. Way more friendly, but no one cares, because they already have the bad confusing taste in their mouth.
Then comes the community. Twitter is extremely toxic, but somehow Lemmy and Mastodon are worse. I know a few people I follow have recently discussed wanting to leave Mastodon because the Mastodon community attacks them, saying they don’t want them there, because they have a successful YouTube channel. The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users, and FOSS users can be really… particular.
I’ve been attacked on both Lemmy and Mastodon because I made some pro-windows comments. It’s pretty exhausting. The hard pill to swallow is that the fediverse isn’t accepting and isn’t kind towards “normal” people.
h_a_r_u_k_i@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is just like email, I see no problem here.
I think the problem is about the mindset and the onboarding experience. We’ve used too much proprietary products and prefer something easy and not too much diverge from the norms. Recently, I tried to advertise Mastodon and Lemmy to my non-techie friends, which are using X and Reddit. Some did try but gave up. They said they didn’t understand the concept, and didn’t want to bother with choosing an instance in the first place, because they didn’t understand the federation concept. It’s just hard to explain the benefits of the fediverse to non-techie people.
I have the same observation as your view. Current fediverse communities are heavily towards tech. Some of my friends joined but gradually left because they had a few to no interactions or no interesting people in their interested areas to follow.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months ago
God all the imported garbage and dead subs that you have to wade through here on lemmy. You cant find anything and you have deal with digital hoarders veing excited that it’s a mess here.
I cant even be bothered with mastodon if its more of the same. I’m here because i absolutely hate the absolute unending barage of ads on reddit and i havent figured put how to patch my app yet. Sometimes i find this place fun when it has its own identity like the star trek memes but im so tired of it.
Social media should be you come for a purpose and then stay for the conversation but now its just people not wanting to be alone but not wanting the conversation either.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This is just how the old internet works, embrace the Cesspool my friend
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I’d say it’s more like Discord as a forum instead of a VOIP client, rather than being comparable to the old internet. A single, isolated instance would be like the old internet forums, where you make an account and it only exists on that once forum. But, the interconnected nature of the federated servers adds a layer of complexity that most people aren’t ready for, and then you add in an onboarding process that’s more than just downloading the app and making an account, and you’ve already lost a number of people - especially those who grew up before the age of the internet or after in the age of the smart phone and app based tech world.