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It seems like not enough people are using it to make a difference. And the people who use it, also uses other platforms for the same purpose. Correct me if I am
by TigerTeamX 4y ago
It seems like not enough people are using it to make a difference. And the people who use it, also uses other platforms for the same purpose. Correct me if I am wrong.
- _dpn7 4y agoIt probably depends from person to person. If you use the Fediverse to talk with friends, that’s the only thing that matters, much like how you can still have communities using IRC. On the other hand if you’re someone who uses social media for content (like me), the Fediverse is woefully inadequate right now. I make up for it by using a Twitter and RSS bridge. You can also use Friendica which has this built in.
- defrost 4y agoAgain, what counts as success? The early and (IMHO) best days of Usenet, Slashdot, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, etc were the intense concentrations of particular interests .. groups of { Network | Civil | Mechanical | Electrical | Numerical } Engineers, Biologists, Programmers, Lawyers, Mathematicians, Physicists, Artists, etc. Mastodon, as I see it ATM, has the kernal of the same and is trending into comunnity clusters with cross fertilisation. The specialist math mastodon community is good fun and has more and more people every month - in time it'll snowball and potentially draw in the bulk of the online math crowd. Twitter saw a peak in the world following accounts in Ukraine, if and when another major world event is locally reported and discussed on an ad hoc mastodon instance that too will spike acceptance. Or it may fall by the wayside .. but the argument of "not enough people are (yet) using it" has applied to all the major social networks in their early days.