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In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..." Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastod
by shagie 4y ago
In a "ok, maybe I'll look at this..."
Grab a client, launch it... it has a login and create account. Ok, create an account. It takes me to https://joinmastodon.org https://joinmastodon.org - find a server... and I see a list of foreign language, LGBT+, activism, technology, and furry. Looking at the technology ones... they seem to be aligned with the foreign language, LGBT+, and activism themes.
The ones that look slightly interesting / "I just want generic news" have a waitlist.
I scroll down this post and see mastodon.social being mentioned... I try that, and it is closed to new sign ups. indieweb.social has a wait list... I look at what its feed looks like... https://indieweb.social/public https://indieweb.social/public and its linked in posts (that I avoid going to linked in to see).
In the category of "low friction, something to say 'here is where I chat'", mastodon is rather high friction and at this time looks to be more self promotion than topics of conversation.
I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on, but for someone who isn't active on twitter in the first place, mastodon looks to be decidedly worse in terms of signing up and the content.
I do acknowledge that this may be just my "spend a few minutes looking at it" but for the casual reader, this doesn't appear to be something I'll be sinking any time into and will more likely shrug my shoulders if twitter falls into disrepair rather than seeking out a replacement for it.
- dimitrios1 4y ago> I realize there's a general "everyone off twitter" feeling going on Is there? I guess it kind of depends on what bubble you are in. I try to get myself into a wide range. Seems like where they are losing some, they are picking up some, and people who have come to depend on it (journos, researchers, political heads) aren't going anywhere.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoMastodon has been averaging about 1000 new users an hour for the last 3 or 4 days. Compared to a few dozen a month ago. It's not mainstream, and never will be, but it's in the process of becoming quite vibrant, TBH.
- edgyquant 4y agoAlmost like people with the will and knowledge to build distributed platforms like mastadon are out of touch with the average user of modern social media.
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- cmrdporcupine 4y agoI don't really get your linkedin reference. I'm on indieweb and that's not my experience of the place. FWIW I moved from mastodon.social to indieweb, just put myself on the signup list and was on in a few hours. It didn't take long. And you could have just joined mastodon.social if you wanted the low friction quick signup. Though it is apparently under heavy load right now due to twitter exodus.
- shagie 4y agoWhen I looked at the public feed, what I see is https://imgur.com/a/Cib6vvS https://imgur.com/a/Cib6vvS From the "just looking in the store windows" perspective, it looks to be a place that people are self promoting their content that is hosted elsewhere. For the purpose of article discovery, Hacker News or /r/programming or /r/java has a closer alignment to that. The times I do go to twitter, I'm after engaging with content there.
- cmrdporcupine 4y agoYeah that's just one user, they seem to have spammed things a bit. Not really typical of the node. TBH indieweb rose to the top for me simply because "web3 is going just great" is publishing off there :-)
- the_mitsuhiko 4y ago> And you could have just joined mastodon.social if you wanted the low friction quick signup. Not sure how OP could have done it as it’s closed for new registrations.