To be honest I like the idea of being able to move my account from a server which is offline to a different one. We should have it with ActivityPub too.

  • batcheck@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I “feel” like one of the main issues with foss tools like Lemmy and Mastadon is lack of an advertising budget.

    Going to throw a wild guess out there without a lot of supporting data, but I suspect Bluesky has a decent budget for influencers and that’s driving the traffic too.

    Just a thought. I’ve been sitting here wondering why most people have not jumped and Lemmy and Mastadon yet. I personally don’t find either platform hard to use or confusing.

    • Mogster@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      A lot of people did jump to Mastodon, and apparently it had had another large influx of users yesterday after all the Twitter shenanigans. Not everyone stays though, obviously.

      I think part of the issue some have with Mastodon is the lack of Twitter’s algorithm. It’s absolutely true to say it’s harder to find people and topics to follow on Mastodon for the simple reason that you’re not getting anything shoved in your face, which is a massive plus point for many (myself included) but can also make it appear initially less appealing.

      • legion@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yep. Finding new users and Content on mastodon is impossible because the nerds who run it hate THE ALGORITHM and social media addiction. Same reason they held out on basic features like quote tweeting until recently.

        Bluesky is basically just OG twitter, plus you can make your own algorithm feeds. It’s cool.

        • mitch@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I honestly did not have any issues populating my timeline through use of hashtags and local timelines. Boost-heavy peeps are good connectors as well.

          • DJDarren@beehaw.orgEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Being able to follow hashtags on Masto is amazing. You find shitloads of good follows by virtue of them just liking the stuff you’re into.

      • African_Grey@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Before algorithms we all used hashtags. Hashtags were very important to Twitter in the before times. That’s how you find topics on mastodon. I have columns set with specific hashtag sets so I can quickly glance at toots about horror movies, birds, retrogaming, etc…

        You can also follow hashtags directly in your home feed just like Twitter topics.

        It’s really not a difficult thing at all, but people are so addicted to Twitter they always give a halfassed attempt at switching before throwing up their hands.