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I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok. You tried Mastodon for one day. I don't know wh

I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok. You tried Mastodon for one day. I don't know what to tell you other than I am deeply saddened your comment is the current top. It reads as the dismissal of someone who doesn't like new things and just wished it was like their old thing. You will never satisfy people like this.

taylodl 4y ago
You can't be serious? If you can't grok it in 5-10 minutes then normal people, i.e. the vast majority of people using Twitter, are never going to use it. It doesn't take extensive analysis to realize Mastodon is a hot mess as an alternative to Twitter - and that's okay. Mastodon was never intended to be an alternative to Twitter. That also means don't expect the masses to adopt Mastodon. I see the masses moving to Reddit. It'll be interesting to see their new registrations over the next couple of months.
lapcat 4y ago
> I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok. As I already said, the problem isn't that I don't "grok" Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036 It didn't take me that long to grok Twitter. > It reads as the dismissal of someone who doesn't like new things and just wished it was like their old thing. I've used many different social networks over the years: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, IRC, App Dot Net (I paid for ADN!), Micro.blog, now Mastodon, and others I can't remember the names of anymore. I even used dial-up BBSes back in the day! I think I'm reasonably experienced and can make an educated evaluation of a new one.
- atoav 4y ago
  I also tried it and yet I cannot follow the criticism of the UI. The one thing that is bad about mastodon is that it goes like: "cool, you wanna join? Here is a hundred choiced where to join and you better make the right one." The interface is something I actually like better than the twitter one. I can actually see content from people I follow instead of weird "engaging" content. The website definitly is more usable than e.g. Instagram, which belongs to a multinational megacorp. There is many clients but none of them seemed nightmarishly bad. The things the clients I tried offer work and are self explainatory. The thing is: I tried mastodon years ago for a day and did also not grok it, but this had nothing to do with the UI, and everything with the people I followed and the instance I have been on. Then it is pretty much like twitter with multiple federates servers.
  - chmars 4y ago
    'I can actually see content from people I follow'? On your home page, click on the star icon in the upper right corner and choose 'See latest Tweets instead'.

taylodl 4y ago

You can't be serious? If you can't grok it in 5-10 minutes then normal people, i.e. the vast majority of people using Twitter, are never going to use it. It doesn't take extensive analysis to realize Mastodon is a hot mess as an alternative to Twitter - and that's okay. Mastodon was never intended to be an alternative to Twitter. That also means don't expect the masses to adopt Mastodon. I see the masses moving to Reddit. It'll be interesting to see their new registrations over the next couple of months.

lapcat 4y ago

> I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok. As I already said, the problem isn't that I don't "grok" Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036 It didn't take me that long to grok Twitter. > It reads as the dismissal of someone who doesn't like new things and just wished it was like their old thing. I've used many different social networks over the years: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, IRC, App Dot Net (I paid for ADN!), Micro.blog, now Mastodon, and others I can't remember the names of anymore. I even used dial-up BBSes back in the day! I think I'm reasonably experienced and can make an educated evaluation of a new one.

atoav 4y ago
I also tried it and yet I cannot follow the criticism of the UI. The one thing that is bad about mastodon is that it goes like: "cool, you wanna join? Here is a hundred choiced where to join and you better make the right one." The interface is something I actually like better than the twitter one. I can actually see content from people I follow instead of weird "engaging" content. The website definitly is more usable than e.g. Instagram, which belongs to a multinational megacorp. There is many clients but none of them seemed nightmarishly bad. The things the clients I tried offer work and are self explainatory. The thing is: I tried mastodon years ago for a day and did also not grok it, but this had nothing to do with the UI, and everything with the people I followed and the instance I have been on. Then it is pretty much like twitter with multiple federates servers.
- chmars 4y ago
  'I can actually see content from people I follow'? On your home page, click on the star icon in the upper right corner and choose 'See latest Tweets instead'.