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Mastodon evokes feelings of "year of Linux desktop" in me. Yes, Linux is a great desktop but no, I don't think people are ready to just up and move. Mastodon i

Mastodon evokes feelings of "year of Linux desktop" in me. Yes, Linux is a great desktop but no, I don't think people are ready to just up and move. Mastodon is probably great, but I don't think people are ready to move there.

shadowgovt 4y ago
It's a lot more usable than I thought it would be when I joined up. And it has a lot of features Twitter doesn't have that I really appreciate... The fact that I can use markdown is pretty great. I don't think it will be for everybody... The federated discoverability is going to be a turnoff for a lot of individuals. But it's well cleared the bar of of "this will be constant pain if you sign up."
emptyparadise 4y ago
I don't think Linux desktop has had its "Windows might implode and randomly shut down in the next year" moment yet. I can kind of see why Mastodon is getting discussed here again.
- chc 4y ago
  Yeah, we don't have Nadella publicly screaming about how left-wing advertising execs are about to destroy Microsoft, begging celebrities for money, and laying off half the company with no warning. Twitter genuinely looks in need of replacement at the moment.
- socialismisok 4y ago
  That's fair. Musk is throwing a truly monumental, once in a century scale meltdown.
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
It's not going to replace Twitter. It's just something else. But you're wrong about people being ready to move there. It's added 230k users in the last week, and in the last 24 hours in particular growth has started to look a bit exponential with just under 70k users being added, ~3000ish an hour. Despite the biggest server (mastodon.social) being overwhelmed and not being able to take new users. Growth right now is about as rapid as possible.
- socialismisok 4y ago
  Nice! Will be cool to see if that's sustainable.

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Mastodon evokes feelings of "year of Linux desktop" in me. Yes, Linux is a great desktop but no, I don't think people are ready to just up and move. Mastodon i

by socialismisok 4y ago

shadowgovt 4y ago
It's a lot more usable than I thought it would be when I joined up. And it has a lot of features Twitter doesn't have that I really appreciate... The fact that I can use markdown is pretty great. I don't think it will be for everybody... The federated discoverability is going to be a turnoff for a lot of individuals. But it's well cleared the bar of of "this will be constant pain if you sign up."
emptyparadise 4y ago
I don't think Linux desktop has had its "Windows might implode and randomly shut down in the next year" moment yet. I can kind of see why Mastodon is getting discussed here again.
- chc 4y ago
  Yeah, we don't have Nadella publicly screaming about how left-wing advertising execs are about to destroy Microsoft, begging celebrities for money, and laying off half the company with no warning. Twitter genuinely looks in need of replacement at the moment.
- socialismisok 4y ago
  That's fair. Musk is throwing a truly monumental, once in a century scale meltdown.
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
It's not going to replace Twitter. It's just something else. But you're wrong about people being ready to move there. It's added 230k users in the last week, and in the last 24 hours in particular growth has started to look a bit exponential with just under 70k users being added, ~3000ish an hour. Despite the biggest server (mastodon.social) being overwhelmed and not being able to take new users. Growth right now is about as rapid as possible.
- socialismisok 4y ago
  Nice! Will be cool to see if that's sustainable.