It’s astonishing! I get why dril or some celebrity would go with BlueSky, but journalists seem to be trying to make it a thing too! It’s like did you learn nothing?
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ikidd@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just do not understand using a corpo solution over a better OSS solution. You know where it’s going to go in your bones, yet you sign right up for another 10 year run before you change all over again. Like these people were just waiting for another terrible option to show up before they switched.
Fuck, just sign up with Mastodon and get it over with, you putzes. What is your issue with free software?
Corgana@startrek.website 8 months ago
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
dril and journos are just going where the numbers are. Simple as. Its not about what platform is best, they want exposure and reach. Mastodon’s design makes it difficult to get both of those things, and that’s why I prefer it. I want smaller, manageable groups. If I wanted to hear about “corncobbing from hte master” i’d use Bluesky.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mastodon is a maze, or to put it differently, a mess. The one thing putting me off is needing to find an instance with the right collection of policies and rules, and I just can’t be bothered.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The entire point is you have a choice, though
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s fine until making that choice feels like sifting through a massive stack of paperwork.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My experience is signing up to a Mastodon instance a while ago then switching instances about two months ago, and all of it was exemplarily straightforward
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Choice is sometimes a bad thing.
Choice paralysis + the the fact that this random shitty instance that hosts maybe 300 people could go down at any moment + the admin could boot you for no seemingly no reason + the various issues with federation make it extremely unappealing for the average Joe. And if you want actual content and adoption you have to make concessions for them or else you’ll forever be irrelevant.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Fuck, just sign up with Mastodon and get it over with, you putzes. What is your issue with free software?
What you are partially seeing here is the fact that there is friction to the idea of Mastodon not being owned by a massive corporation. People have been so trained to expect their social media to be run by a massive corporation that even if an alternative social network like Mastodon does everything perfectly people are still going to get tripped up and feel confused about Mastodon simply because a bunch of rich people don’t own it.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People don’t care that it’s not owned by a millionaire. What they care about is it being simple and easy to understand. One choice is as simple as it gets.
dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
People most definitely do care about that, and every single day more and more people are realizing how much it matters.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes people will not use a service because a billionaire owns it. But nobody is using a service simply because a billionaire owns it. People might choose bluesky over mastadon because the owner created twitter originally. But nobody is choosing it because Jack Dorsey has a fuck ton of money.
Elon’s rabid fanbase not withstanding. That’s more the exception though, not the rule.
___@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s the capitalist system we’re born into. It’s time living in a cocoon where there magic products appear to guide you. Then one day you wake up and realizing they’ve been drinking your blood all this time. Open source might not lead to your perfect product, but it will be close, and mandatory profit seeking won’t turn the ecosystem hostile against the users. We leave that to the mods and server operators.
corbin@infosec.pub 8 months ago
I mostly use Mastodon, but I 100% get it. The onboarding process is much easier with centralized services (no need for analogies to email), and more importantly, you’re not at risk of losing half your follows/followers when server admins have a pissing match. As long as those friction points exist, there will be a market for centralized platforms.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I was impacted by the closing of mastodon.lol and I never recovered either my follow count, or frankly my interest and engagement in the platform since. I’m not alone, either. The ‘migration’ behavior was half baked at best, giving me what equates to a 301, not much else. There’s a lot of work to be done here.
I am the most active on Threads for my brand account, and my personal account on Mastodon is a distant second.
aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If you are running a business account you really should be using your own mastodon server.
jsh@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
And poof! There goes the appeal.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Agreed, but it is a cost.
udon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
👟👟 Here, hope they fit!
T156@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s also less complexity for a centralised system, since you don’t have a big confusing mess having to learn which server you want to sign up with, how that impacts what you see, and how you connect with other servers.
It’s one of the downsides of Lemmy, since people get completely boggled over their heads, and either jump to the biggest Instances that they can find (assuming that the servers are basically completely separate), or give up on it entirely because it’s too confusing when you just want something simple and straightforward.
Virulent@reddthat.com 8 months ago
The admin politics is exactly what turned me off to mastodon. It’s like the worst people are in charge of everything