I could also call it the "Linux struggle"
"Windows and Microsoft spy on you, it breaks, it's heavy, its hardware requirements are too hard, windows updates...
you could try Linux, you can even game on it nowadays.
naaah it's too complicated. Anyway, gotta edit the registry to disable a feature"
:(
I've got a dual boot currently, with windows exclusively for gaming and ubuntu for everything else. Would love to fully switch to linux, but some games still don't work on it, and then there's gamepass of course, which likely never will.
I miss it so bad. I try to make Mastadon work but it just doesn't without the people I want to hear from. Just having bots echo what those accounts say along with the lack of interaction makes it less fun.
I've just learned to follow smaller accounts with similar interest. As a celebrity follow machine, it's awful because nobody is really on there officially except for a handful of people.
Hashtags are much more important on Masto too cause without an algorithm, its one of the only ways your posts are visible to others. I find with the right combo of tags though, I can get a decent amount of interaction.
There was a good solid week where most of my attention was focused on Mastodon. I guess it all depends on what you were originally using twitter for. I guess it clicked for me cause I barely used twitter to begin with.
hashtag are much more important on Masto
And this is why the First Twitter Exodus was so miserable. Back then following tags or searching tags was a part of the interface but didn't work.
Beep boop, I'm a bot or some shit like that.
I'm sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with I miss it so bad. This makes my face sad. I see you've already tried troubleshooting by try to make Mastadon work but it jus... and were perhaps unsuccessful. We're always trying to improve, in fact we independently recently identified an issue with Just having bots echo what those accounts say along wi... and were impressed that you'd even notice such a specific issue! Less than 1% of our users are as talented and observant as you are. We truly care, so keep those comments coming and we can help you interaction makes it less fun..
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What the
44 unique clicks and only 3 responses to my form... We gotta get those numbers up!!!
Maybe a monthly/quarterly coordinated push to get people to migrate would be more effective at making it push through, rather than tiny blips of "Hey, maybe Mastodon?" on occasion.
And then whenever people inevitably try it and decide not to stay, as I did, make sure to pick up on any feedback and take it seriously. Maybe after a year it'll be a genuinely desirable alternative.
I personally think it's a messy pile of junk.
Maybe try just browsing the local feed or looking up hashtags of things you like, might help you find new people
When people dont wanna switch to madtodon because its another app and too lazy to set it up but everyone suddenly starts using threads when facebook releases it.
It's a lot easier when it's a seamless transition vs a new platform. Also, it seems like the usage took a nosedive.
I'm glad it did. Imagine: People keep complaining about Xitter, refuse to use Mastodon, then suddenly all migrate to Meta because new platform hype. This almost actually happened and I think the only reasons it didn't is that Threads is inaccessible in Europe and from what I've heard the app was crap.
It truly baffles me that anyone at all is still on the platform formerly known as twitter at this point.
Twitter is just furry porn now.
Oh no. Can you list some accounts I should block to avoid all the hot furry porn?
Basically to blcok 90% its easiest to block all of them with the 🔞 emoji.
Wait a minute....
It'd honestly be hilarious if instead of the "free speech" right wing hellscape elon is trying to make, it just became the number 1 furry community on the internet.
It already is
It's a shame but it's also true none of the options are a real alternative to Twitter. Twitter's main strength comes from the number of creators it has and the discoverability of content for general users. None have succeeded in breaking it.
I'd be down to use Mastodon but no one I know uses it so there's nothing to do. Pain.
I only use twitter through nitter. I just want these people to mirror their shit to an RSS feed.
Tf is firefish?
Formerly known as Calckey. Twitter replacement similarly to Mastodon. Also uses ActivityPub.
Using it rn, it's forked from Misskey and is in alpha rn
It feels like mastodon but they sprinkled in a few telegram features tbh.
Much better than mastodon in terms of user experience tho
Addiction is a helluva thing
Or like all the youtubers making bank by complaining about youtube.
Any change requires inertia
*requires overcoming inertia.
yeh
Curiosity, what is Bluesky? Never heard of it.
A worse version of ActivityPub
Bluesky started out being owned by Twitter (pre Musk), but became a completely separate company (also pre Musk). Somewhat like Mastadon, it is intended to be decentralized. It’s still in beta, so it’s not freely open to the public yet - you have to get an invitation from someone who already uses it.
How do they plan to make money? “We’ll be publishing a blog post on our monetization plans in a few weeks, and we’ll share more then” according to Emily Liu, part of the Bluesky team.
So true!!
I want to ~~steal~~ get a copy of this for reasons.
Can we get it with better quality? 😜 😜
This is the very first time I’ve even heard of Firefish.
AFAICT it used to be called Calckey
Oh! That’s something I’ve heard of.