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I personally never used Twitter for friends or any relatives. And the discoverability problem is more for my account, rather than discovering other people, It
by fariszr 4y ago
I personally never used Twitter for friends or any relatives.
And the discoverability problem is more for my account, rather than discovering other people,
Its very hard to grow organically on Mastodon.
Still, this applies to discovering other people too.
- 0x0000000 4y agoFair enough, I can understand if you are trying to build an audience and be discovered yourself that this is a bigger problem than trying to discover others.
- rzazueta 4y agoI feel like that's part of the point of the Fediverse, though - it;s not a centralized social media platform like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. - it;s really for creating interconnected communities that are mostly self-supporting and grow very deliberately. The benefits of discoverability - gaining a following of strangers, reaching new audiences for marketing purposes, etc. - are also what breed a lot of the problems associated with centralized social media. If Twitter is an international airport, then Fediverse apps are like your local regional airports - like the ones you pass on the freeway but never really notice are there. If you;re looking for a true Twitter replacement, Mastodon and the others aren't it - they're building smaller, focused, organic communities rather than incentivizing engagement to sell eyeballs to advertisers. That changes their whole dynamic.
- fariszr 4y agoBut these Discovery problems aren't because of the Fediverse. They are Mastodon Problems. Matrix is a federated protocol, and it doesn't have the same discovery issues.