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That's part of the magic of Mastodon, for sure. Following real people, instead of social media characters. And a lot less hatraed and gossip, at least for now.
by tambourine_man 3y ago
That's part of the magic of Mastodon, for sure. Following real people, instead of social media characters. And a lot less hatraed and gossip, at least for now.
If you miss seeing big names, though, and let's not pretend there's no appeal in that, Mastodon is lacking.
- neltnerb 3y agoI use Mastodon for social networking. Not for consuming news or media. Things where it being a two way street is nice. I actually just have manual bookmarks to Twitter pages of the like half dozen people I think are at all worth reading. And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts. I assume that will break with API changes, at which point I just won't read those people anymore unless they cross post on Mastodon. But it's worked well so far. Obviously eliminates any possibility of trying to win the comments section, but I don't really see that as a true negative.
- eks391 3y ago> And then I use libredirect (https://libredirect.github.io/ https://libredirect.github.io/) to avoid hitting the actual Twitter website so I don't have to log in (don't have an account anyway) and don't see nonsense recommended posts. Thank you for this! I know of and use some of these already, just from luck of discovery, and having a compilation of several more is so freeing!
- tambourine_man 3y agoMaybe the distinction between social network and media consumption needs to be heightened and that will ultimately be a great thing. But there was a period where I could do it all on Twitter and it was convenient. Perhaps it was never meant to be, as the incentives are kind of twisted.