• Cuteblooded@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Okay, so I never used Twitter but figured I’d give Mastodon a try.
    But what do you even do there? Is it just a place where you wait for specific people to shout into the void? And then what?
    Also how do I even find interesting subjects or people to follow?

    • planish@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Yes?

      You can also shout into the void yourself. Eventually somebody might notice and reply.

      You can watch the local or federated timelines and if someone says something interesting you can follow them and reply. Or you if you get linked from elsewhere to a good post you can follow the author. Or you can see a list of popular hashtags (or look up a hashtag) and see posts in them, or post to them.

      What else is there supposed to be to do there?

    • Climinteedus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I saw them for the first time during the Unheavenly Skye tour.

      My first time seeing Coheed too!

      It was one hell of a show.

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    1 year ago

    Problem for me is that Twitter for me is about the official announcement-y things which aren’t leaving lol. It’s not great, but for football news all the journalists are still there, and so are the clubs.

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    1 year ago

    I think I’d rather keep Mastodon small and quirky. The moment it starts to feel like twitter, I’m off.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, I feel like Mastodon is kinda never going to be like Twitter, even if its user count were to grow by two orders of magnitude. There are several reasons why, as the other replies point out, but the most important (IMO) is that Mastodon is just not a profit-driven platform. And if Mastodon is not a profit-driven platform, it is not designed to maximize user engagement. And if it is not designed to maximize user engagement, it is not designed to encourage toxic behavior.

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      1 year ago

      At the risk of sounding like a door-to-door fediverse evangelist: the good thing about mastodon is you can always move to a small and quirky instance, or even start your own small and quirky instance and defederate from any parts that you don’t like.