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Mastodon can only “fail” at being what it’s not trying to be: a Twitter replacement. It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for w
by renewedrebecca 3y ago
Mastodon can only “fail” at being what it’s not trying to be: a Twitter replacement.
It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for whom Twitter was too toxic.
- Hamuko 3y agoDidn't Mastodon recently announce search improvements and quote posts, which were some of the Twitter features lauded on Mastodon as "toxic"?
- renewedrebecca 3y agoYes, but with some differences (opt-in, being one) that hopefully will prevent some of the abuses. Moderation is also way better on Mastodon, so even with those features, the impact should be lessened.
- riffic 3y agoplus you're not sticking the ActivityPub protocol genie back inside its bottle.
- haunter 3y ago>It has already succeeded at being a decent social network for people for whom Twitter was too toxic. I don't see Mastodon being less toxic, the whole mastodon.lol (~70k users) drama over a video game was a perfect example of that. On the other hand it also showed to me that single user self-hosting is the only way to go with Mastodon.
- renewedrebecca 3y agoidk, I get way less abuse on the Fediverse than I ever did on Twitter. There is definitely drama out there, and the mastodon.lol debacle was well, ridiculous. (As Douglas Adams said, "People are a problem." -- that's not going away no matter what nifty new protocol you come up with, unless it exclusively routes to /dev/null.) My point was more that there's no real profit motive to Mastodon, so it can't fail in that sense, which is generally what we're talking about when we're talking about web services. If 75% of the new people on Mastodon eventually go to BlueSky, the people who remain will probably be perfectly happy to remain on Mastodon, and I don't know how one can call that a failure.