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I think the opportunity is to foster a new kind of social interaction and smaller niche groups seems like a really interesting angle that centralized services g

I think the opportunity is to foster a new kind of social interaction and smaller niche groups seems like a really interesting angle that centralized services gravitate away from. I haven't used Mastadon but I could see this being a positive if you replace "home instance" with "local community" or "interest group foo". The truth is that you only need to find a small group of people with similar interests. You don't need access to the entire world.

haunter 4y ago
How is that new though? Feels like just going back to forums, or heck even Discord or reddit. But personally I always felt that Mastodon is a Discord/Reddit "clone" rather than something to replace Twitter
- jzb 4y ago
  Discord, Reddit and Mastodon all feel very different to me. - Discord's dominant model feels like IRC++ to me. Emphasis largely seems to be on real-time conversations. - Reddit is like a slew of mini-Slashdots, where communities have a discussion prompt like a news story, a question, or something and then commentary. - Mastodon is micro-blogging. You post a status update, commentary or question, and people can react and/or reshare. Y Discord and Reddit are topic-based. Mastodon is more about following people than topics, though you can organize Mastodon instances by topic / domain / whatever. Anyway... Mastodon feels more like Twitter, albeit a vision of a better Twitter (for certain values of "better") circa 2017. Longer content, RSS feeds, and federation + the micro blog format.
- jmathai 4y ago
  I think going back to forums is an apt description. I'm in a different stage of life so I can't comment on if Discord or Reddit solve that use case. I think Discord comes closest.
jm4 4y ago
I think you have the right idea. An large instance may help in the first day or two until you find some people to follow and then it's not so important as far as seeing the rest of the world. The federated timeline has plenty and it will keep growing as the number of people on the instance and the number of people they follow grows. You can also search hashtags to follow topics across the fediverse. But it's nice to have that community with some core shared interests to come back to. Part of that is a shared code of conduct. You want to associate with people who have the same idea about how to interact with others and that really sets the tone for the whole experience. I've mostly interacted with fosstodon.org and hachyderm.io and both are made up of people who are positive and respectful of others.
nightski 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I mean, yeah it's great once you have found them. But I would of never of discovered stats twitter or other great communities if they were off in some isolated silo/mastadon instance. It lacks discoverability.

haunter 4y ago

How is that new though? Feels like just going back to forums, or heck even Discord or reddit. But personally I always felt that Mastodon is a Discord/Reddit "clone" rather than something to replace Twitter

jzb 4y ago
Discord, Reddit and Mastodon all feel very different to me. - Discord's dominant model feels like IRC++ to me. Emphasis largely seems to be on real-time conversations. - Reddit is like a slew of mini-Slashdots, where communities have a discussion prompt like a news story, a question, or something and then commentary. - Mastodon is micro-blogging. You post a status update, commentary or question, and people can react and/or reshare. Y Discord and Reddit are topic-based. Mastodon is more about following people than topics, though you can organize Mastodon instances by topic / domain / whatever. Anyway... Mastodon feels more like Twitter, albeit a vision of a better Twitter (for certain values of "better") circa 2017. Longer content, RSS feeds, and federation + the micro blog format.
jmathai 4y ago
I think going back to forums is an apt description. I'm in a different stage of life so I can't comment on if Discord or Reddit solve that use case. I think Discord comes closest.

jm4 4y ago

I think you have the right idea. An large instance may help in the first day or two until you find some people to follow and then it's not so important as far as seeing the rest of the world. The federated timeline has plenty and it will keep growing as the number of people on the instance and the number of people they follow grows. You can also search hashtags to follow topics across the fediverse. But it's nice to have that community with some core shared interests to come back to. Part of that is a shared code of conduct. You want to associate with people who have the same idea about how to interact with others and that really sets the tone for the whole experience. I've mostly interacted with fosstodon.org and hachyderm.io and both are made up of people who are positive and respectful of others.

nightski 4y ago

I'm not sure I agree. I mean, yeah it's great once you have found them. But I would of never of discovered stats twitter or other great communities if they were off in some isolated silo/mastadon instance. It lacks discoverability.