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It would be best if you had users and followers to broadcast messages. Right now, mastodon feels like a ghost town. But who knows? There was a time when MySpace

It would be best if you had users and followers to broadcast messages. Right now, mastodon feels like a ghost town. But who knows? There was a time when MySpace was king. Only time will tell .. Also, Twitter works because of eyeballs. However, with so many Mastodon instances, people need to learn and find out who the real @nixcraft is. Sorry to say this, but I don't think so; we have an actual Twitter replacement right now. In another six months, someone might build it, or Elon will make it better or send it to /dev/null.

berkes 4y ago
If you feel strongly about claiming the real nixcraft, you can host your own instance at nixcraft.com. or get one for approx the price of that infamous blue-check. Only a person in control of nixcraft com can have an account like @nix@nixcraft.com. Something extremely powerful and for free through federation. E.g. journalists or politicians who "require" a validated checkmark, would benefit from their company or party having an instance.
ay 4y ago
We don’t have the replacement for AOL either. We have the internet instead. Things evolve. As for who the “real” @nixcraft is - how would I know it on Twitter ? The intuition is “first come first serve”, but you are one account hijack away from having to explain that actually @nixcraft is not the real one, despite claiming to be so, and actually @latest_nixcraft is the true yourself. You would probably do so in the other places that people know you own: your website, your email sig, your GitHub account, your HN profile. Same as you are doing right now. (I checked only the HN profile) With that method, what is the obstacle to adding the domain name after that handle ?
yogthos 4y ago
It's kind of weird to me to say that a platform with millions of users on it is a ghost town. I have both twitter and Mastodon accounts, and I find the opposite to be true. I have roughly the same number of followers on both platforms, and I find that I see far more interaction on Mastodon than I do on Twitter.
cmrdporcupine 4y ago
Doesn't feel like a ghost town to me? I've watched my feed explode in the last week though. Now I almost wish for a ranking algorithm. You won't see jack shit until you start following people, though. It steadfastly will refuse to spoonfeed you. You have to manually curate your feed. So it can feel a bit bare at first... But I think the last few years has shown the downsides of the "let me show you what I think you should like" approach... 230,000 new users in the last week, 68,000 of them just in the last 24 hours. Currently at about 30,000 posts per hour. (according to @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org). Growth throughout the week was averaging about 1000-1200 an hour, but in the last 24 hour that has double or tripled.

berkes 4y ago

If you feel strongly about claiming the real nixcraft, you can host your own instance at nixcraft.com. or get one for approx the price of that infamous blue-check. Only a person in control of nixcraft com can have an account like @nix@nixcraft.com. Something extremely powerful and for free through federation. E.g. journalists or politicians who "require" a validated checkmark, would benefit from their company or party having an instance.

ay 4y ago

We don’t have the replacement for AOL either. We have the internet instead. Things evolve. As for who the “real” @nixcraft is - how would I know it on Twitter ? The intuition is “first come first serve”, but you are one account hijack away from having to explain that actually @nixcraft is not the real one, despite claiming to be so, and actually @latest_nixcraft is the true yourself. You would probably do so in the other places that people know you own: your website, your email sig, your GitHub account, your HN profile. Same as you are doing right now. (I checked only the HN profile) With that method, what is the obstacle to adding the domain name after that handle ?

yogthos 4y ago

It's kind of weird to me to say that a platform with millions of users on it is a ghost town. I have both twitter and Mastodon accounts, and I find the opposite to be true. I have roughly the same number of followers on both platforms, and I find that I see far more interaction on Mastodon than I do on Twitter.

cmrdporcupine 4y ago

Doesn't feel like a ghost town to me? I've watched my feed explode in the last week though. Now I almost wish for a ranking algorithm. You won't see jack shit until you start following people, though. It steadfastly will refuse to spoonfeed you. You have to manually curate your feed. So it can feel a bit bare at first... But I think the last few years has shown the downsides of the "let me show you what I think you should like" approach... 230,000 new users in the last week, 68,000 of them just in the last 24 hours. Currently at about 30,000 posts per hour. (according to @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org). Growth throughout the week was averaging about 1000-1200 an hour, but in the last 24 hour that has double or tripled.