Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.
How to we ‘get there’, to a point where the userbase is to a volume/ size that it fulfills this requirement? I think musc is helping our cause enormously by being a fascistic a-hole. But hey, we can’t rely on him for everything.
We tried. They ignore the vast majority of feedback given to them.
The Mastodon user experience really needed to be simplified greatly to attract Twitter users, because what’s a platform without other users on it to connect to? At this point I feel as if they may have blown their chance.
You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.
I mean, don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answers to, I suppose.
A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don’t really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can’t leave FB/IG/Reddit because ‘that’s where all the cool kids are’. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.
Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.
Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that’s ballsy.
Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose “Home” feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don’t hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I’d be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I’m good there, too).
Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?
Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.
How to we ‘get there’, to a point where the userbase is to a volume/ size that it fulfills this requirement? I think musc is helping our cause enormously by being a fascistic a-hole. But hey, we can’t rely on him for everything.
I don’t know.
I use microblogging platforms to connect with people who have my disability, which includes lots of cognitive problems.
So the current customisation and exploration effort it takes to set up a working mastodon account is too much for most people with my illness.
An optional algorithm would help.
I totally get you on that, friend.
Neither does Bluesky.
For mine and a lot of niches there is :).
The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.
Cool, how do we convinced the Masto devs of this apparent fact?
We tried. They ignore the vast majority of feedback given to them.
The Mastodon user experience really needed to be simplified greatly to attract Twitter users, because what’s a platform without other users on it to connect to? At this point I feel as if they may have blown their chance.
anything specific you can call out for those of us who have zero interest in moving to another centralized platform?
You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.
I mean, don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answers to, I suppose.
A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don’t really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can’t leave FB/IG/Reddit because ‘that’s where all the cool kids are’. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.
Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.
Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that’s ballsy.
Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose “Home” feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don’t hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I’d be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I’m good there, too).
IANAL, and everyone calls him MudMan Johnson. Why is that ballsy? I really know very little about popular culture.
Not a pop culture thing, it just sounds… self deprecating, I suppose.
I hear it and think, a man of the earth. Good for you both.
Because all of the cool people are there! Don’t you want to be cool, too?