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With the fediverse, I think people need to drop the notion that they expect people they already know to be on the platform. Specifically Mastodon: If you log on

by jarbus 4y ago

With the fediverse, I think people need to drop the notion that they expect people they already know to be on the platform. Specifically Mastodon: If you log on expecting to find the people you follow on twitter, you are in for a bad time. But, if you log on looking to find and follow a bunch of unique new people, there is no shortage of accounts/instances to follow, and the # of users relative to centralized services doesn't matter.

rcMgD2BwE72F 4y ago
>With the fediverse, I think people need to drop the notion that they expect people they already know to be on the platform. It's the same at the beginning of every social network. When I joined Twitter or Facebook early, I did not expect to find people I knew either. People are probably joining instances where their friends are already registered, unless you're the first among your circles. Also, you can be logged into multiple instances at the same time – just like you're probably connected to a personal and a work mailbox.
remram 4y ago
That's good because the tool Mastodon developed to connect to your Twitter friends has been down for years: https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/
- tomrod 4y ago
  Perhaps the new ownership at Twitter will encourage interop?
  - riffic 4y ago
    hilarious. substantive reply: history begs to differ.
    - spacemanmatt 4y ago
      e's too busy freezing his precious peaches to worry about interop
  - throwanem 4y ago
    No one on the fediverse wants its culture to become more like that of Twitter.
- yaomtc 4y ago
  That was due to a change in Twitter API, which I think made such a feature impossible after.
  - trenchgun 4y ago
    Can't be impossible, since substack has that feature too currently. You can connect your twitter account, and find all your followed accounts who have also connected their twitter accounts.
philjohn 4y ago
But does it have the same discovery mechanisms once things get to a certain size? As much as many people hate "the algorithm" it's a useful tool to be recommended accounts you may be interested in following.
- jarbus 4y ago
  A great quirk of mastodon is that similar users tend to cluster on similar instances. FOSS people are on fosstodon, academics are on scholar.social, etc. I love finding instances for super creative types and just browsing the profiles sometimes.

by jarbus 4y ago

rcMgD2BwE72F 4y ago

>With the fediverse, I think people need to drop the notion that they expect people they already know to be on the platform. It's the same at the beginning of every social network. When I joined Twitter or Facebook early, I did not expect to find people I knew either. People are probably joining instances where their friends are already registered, unless you're the first among your circles. Also, you can be logged into multiple instances at the same time – just like you're probably connected to a personal and a work mailbox.

remram 4y ago

That's good because the tool Mastodon developed to connect to your Twitter friends has been down for years: https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/ https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/

tomrod 4y ago
Perhaps the new ownership at Twitter will encourage interop?
- riffic 4y ago
  hilarious. substantive reply: history begs to differ.
  - spacemanmatt 4y ago
    e's too busy freezing his precious peaches to worry about interop
- throwanem 4y ago
  No one on the fediverse wants its culture to become more like that of Twitter.
yaomtc 4y ago
That was due to a change in Twitter API, which I think made such a feature impossible after.
- trenchgun 4y ago
  Can't be impossible, since substack has that feature too currently. You can connect your twitter account, and find all your followed accounts who have also connected their twitter accounts.

philjohn 4y ago

But does it have the same discovery mechanisms once things get to a certain size? As much as many people hate "the algorithm" it's a useful tool to be recommended accounts you may be interested in following.

jarbus 4y ago
A great quirk of mastodon is that similar users tend to cluster on similar instances. FOSS people are on fosstodon, academics are on scholar.social, etc. I love finding instances for super creative types and just browsing the profiles sometimes.