While Twitter is busy limiting the number of readable tweets and breaking its Tweetdeck app, open source Twitter alternative Mastodon is celebrating the launch of a significant refresh of its Android app. The new app, released over the weekend, features a complete Material You redesign — Google’s design language for Android — as well as […]
Mastodon is just so empty as a platform. I hope for its success but I am not seeing it at this point the way we are with Lemmy.
I Iiterally cannot keep up with my feed. You have to build a network there. It is not spoonfed to you.
Which it should be if you want it to.
Nah, man. I get things and people I like spoonfed now by active boosters. The more you interact and add to your network the better it gets.
I really don’t get how people don’t understand that for mass adoption you need as little fucking friction as possible, lol. What you are doing is just gatekeeping. My experience with Mastodon:
The home feed is completely empty at first. I can go to some recommendations which are (I think) based on my home instance. I have no idea what those people even talk about so I just follow them to be able to check the platform out at all.
Looking at the “Trending Topics” (or whatever) tab shows stupid hashtags like #silentsunday or #photomonday. I don’t really care about those and they don’t even matter for my home instance infosec.exchange. So how do I even find any topics I really care about? It’s so much work.
I’m very technically inclined and I went in with an open mind and am now following quite a few people and have even found properly nice profiles like bellingcat. But that was way too much friction - there should be less, and I’m not talking for me.
Anyway, I never really used or liked Twitter and Mastodon seems the same. There’s just too many uninformed opinions and people fishing for likes. I don’t care about that, I want proper discussions even if I, IMO completely undeservedly, get downvoted ;) I like Lemmy way more for that.
This is a strange take - Mastodon makes up ~80% of the Fediverse, whereas Lemmy makes up like 3% or something.
Mastodon is the entire reason the Fediverse as a whole ended up taking off - for most people, it is the only thing they are aware of.
I think the reality is just that microblogging is always going to be devoid of content when compared to a messageboard system like lemmy or reddit
Microblogging success seems to come from very popular users with many followers, such as celebrities, athletes, institutions, etc. Without these, Twitter would also feel empty.
I mean all your can do is engage with the community and actually work to get it up to what you want. I’ve commented more in the last 3 days then I did in 8 years on Reddit cause I want it to thrive
If you’re looking for the exact same celebrities you followed on Twitter, you’re going to be let down.
If you follow hashtags instead, there’s a lot to like. In a sense, Mastodon almost seems more Reddit/Lemmy-like, in the fact that content is more discoverable by topic instead of person.
weird, i’ve gotten the opposite impression! i joined mastodon and lemmy at the same time, and i’m finding that mastodon feels a lot more lively to me so far. granted, i haven’t used twitter in years, so i haven’t been comparing the two in my mind.
You need to start following people and hashtags.There is no algorythm filling your timeline.
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