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For what it's worth, my Mastodon experience. Broadly, I think the best use of Mastodon IS to be a Twitter competitor; a noisy town square. What I have seen is
by jrm4 4y ago
For what it's worth, my Mastodon experience.
Broadly, I think the best use of Mastodon IS to be a Twitter competitor; a noisy town square.
What I have seen is -- the disagreeable people on Twitter want to publically fight. They want to push their bad ideas and have everyone listen to them, and thus are willing to get into it.
The disagreeable people on Mastodon want to silence others. They're more block happy and don't want to be questioned at all.
That's why, presently, I prefer the disagreeable people over at Twitter; they're actually using the platform better (and you can possibly change their minds)
I do hope this changes.
- troad 4y agoMastodon, like Twitter, is full of people saying extreme things for attention, but it differs from Twitter in that there's no one to make fun of those people, because that would be 'negativity'. For that reason, I tend to find Mastodon feeds absolutely insufferable.
- rchaud 4y agoMastodon is not a commercial entity, it doesn't have to compete with Twitter any more than my alumni.university email has to compete with Gmail. Mastodon offers a simple solution to stay out of the text wars, one that Twitter wouldn't dare offer: "turn off reblogs". Half the people I follow retweet/boost things I find irrelevant (personally). I can turn that off on Mastodon to reduce the noise. I can't on Twitter because then I might spend less time on the app, robbing them on precious ad revenue.
- detaro 4y agoTwitter has that feature.
- jrm4 4y agoThe problem is, it's not a very good "solution" because reblogs was also a useful feature in spreading certain kinds of information. In my opinion, Twitter was (and is) instrumental in effectively highlighting certain kinds of important, unrecognized, "news," e.g. police brutality. I'm glad Mastodon folk are considering effective ways to reintroduce it.