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I don't know anyone going over there, except for the couple people on Hackernews who keep saying it's the next big thing.

by taude 3y ago

muglug 3y ago
It’s not the next big thing, but it’s definitely a thing now. Lots of big names in tech post there exclusively.
- thegeekpirate 3y ago
  Including Linus Torvalds! https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds
galactus 3y ago
At this point there is enough people on Mastodon for me to stay there without caring if its “the next big” or not.
- stubybubs 3y ago
  These days I'm actually more excited to find the next small thing.
  - ploum 3y ago
    Exactly. Everybody seems to look for the place "where everyone is". Truth is that there is none. People are always spread around many different places (and it’s a good thing). Is everybody on Mastodon ? Absolutely not (but you would be surprised how many people never were on Twitter either). Is there enough people on Mastodon to keep you informed, entertained and making you discover new stuff? Absolutely. Is your niche interest represented on Mastodon? I don’t know but it might be, although with different "codes/traditions" which might make it harder to find at first glance. Will Mastodon be the next big thing? Well, nobody on Mastodon seems to care about that question. Is Mastodon a success? Of course it is for the thousands people using it daily. Should I use Mastodon? Only you can answer that…
neltnerb 3y ago
heh, yeah, I was going to say -- I don't use twitter and have used mastodon for years and do not expect it to become the next big thing. is that important? I put it like this. If you expect 1-to-1 mapping of your twitter social network and posts to mastodon to work before you switch, you will fail. Expecting that or something close to it is not unreasonable to want (okay, it's historically very unreasonable), but it is not what we have. When I joined, I had one friend on the network. Then two, then I followed random people until I built a new social network organically over a year, and unfollowed people and now everything works nicely for me. I have a new social network, and all it really took was being willing to click follow and be patient. It was slow though, or else would have been work, so I do get that this isn't a recommendation. It's honest though, and that will keep it from being the next big thing until everyone on Twitter is gone and the networks built from scratch are the place to be (and now more gentle to do that because you're a latecomer). Next big thing though? Nah. I think it's a sustainable thing though, like Linux pre-smartphone, and one that doesn't need to be the next big thing to be big enough to hit perpetual improvement and growth until it does become closer to the big thing a few down the line.. We've got a lot of proprietary sites to crash and burn their VC funding by which point federated services are going to look like an oasis of stability where you can go back and find your friends when the trendy new network fails. I don't know if mastodon will be a household name, but I bet it (or another federated service) outlasts bluesky, truth social, gab, reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube, tumblr, facebook, makes me wonder more at what point it's got a signal, email, dropbox, or online collaboration system somehow. I see no reason to think the network is boring enough that it will just peter out without active sabotage so far. Maybe everything will be more boring in this context in the future, that would be okay with me.

I don't know anyone going over there, except for the couple people on Hackernews who keep saying it's the next big thing.

by taude 3y ago

I don't know anyone going over there, except for the couple people on Hackernews who keep saying it's the next big thing.

muglug 3y ago

It’s not the next big thing, but it’s definitely a thing now. Lots of big names in tech post there exclusively.

thegeekpirate 3y ago
Including Linus Torvalds! https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds https://social.kernel.org/users/torvalds

galactus 3y ago

At this point there is enough people on Mastodon for me to stay there without caring if its “the next big” or not.

stubybubs 3y ago
These days I'm actually more excited to find the next small thing.
- ploum 3y ago
  Exactly. Everybody seems to look for the place "where everyone is". Truth is that there is none. People are always spread around many different places (and it’s a good thing). Is everybody on Mastodon ? Absolutely not (but you would be surprised how many people never were on Twitter either). Is there enough people on Mastodon to keep you informed, entertained and making you discover new stuff? Absolutely. Is your niche interest represented on Mastodon? I don’t know but it might be, although with different "codes/traditions" which might make it harder to find at first glance. Will Mastodon be the next big thing? Well, nobody on Mastodon seems to care about that question. Is Mastodon a success? Of course it is for the thousands people using it daily. Should I use Mastodon? Only you can answer that…

neltnerb 3y ago

heh, yeah, I was going to say -- I don't use twitter and have used mastodon for years and do not expect it to become the next big thing. is that important? I put it like this. If you expect 1-to-1 mapping of your twitter social network and posts to mastodon to work before you switch, you will fail. Expecting that or something close to it is not unreasonable to want (okay, it's historically very unreasonable), but it is not what we have. When I joined, I had one friend on the network. Then two, then I followed random people until I built a new social network organically over a year, and unfollowed people and now everything works nicely for me. I have a new social network, and all it really took was being willing to click follow and be patient. It was slow though, or else would have been work, so I do get that this isn't a recommendation. It's honest though, and that will keep it from being the next big thing until everyone on Twitter is gone and the networks built from scratch are the place to be (and now more gentle to do that because you're a latecomer). Next big thing though? Nah. I think it's a sustainable thing though, like Linux pre-smartphone, and one that doesn't need to be the next big thing to be big enough to hit perpetual improvement and growth until it does become closer to the big thing a few down the line.. We've got a lot of proprietary sites to crash and burn their VC funding by which point federated services are going to look like an oasis of stability where you can go back and find your friends when the trendy new network fails. I don't know if mastodon will be a household name, but I bet it (or another federated service) outlasts bluesky, truth social, gab, reddit, twitter, instagram, youtube, tumblr, facebook, makes me wonder more at what point it's got a signal, email, dropbox, or online collaboration system somehow. I see no reason to think the network is boring enough that it will just peter out without active sabotage so far. Maybe everything will be more boring in this context in the future, that would be okay with me.