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> What matters in social networks is scale What value does scale have, if you get only lazy retweets and likes and low-quality responses? I don't need 'eyeball

• rvz 4y ago
  > What value does scale have, if you get only lazy retweets and likes and low-quality responses? I don't need 'eyeballs-on-tweet' kind of exposure, but interesting discussions. Normal users use the block button, protected tweets and whitelisted or follower-only replies which those already exist. Problem solved. This is a non-issue. Even by looking at the so-called 'migration', it has failed to convince existing Twitter users to stick around on Mastodon which by comparing with the figures: 220M vs 50,000 daily active users, it is not even close to 1%. It's clear the Mastodon has decided to immediately disqualify itself and has decided to add more barriers to entry and migrations within migrations as features as you have just admitted: > ...yes I managed to pass the 15 minutes selection of an instance. Which isn't all-too-important either, as instances federate with each other and you can migrate later, if you wish. My point(s) still stand. An island for techies and geeks isn't a great pitch to normal people who dislike Twitter and are looking for a viable alternative.