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From my experience: - Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content - Sign-up process isn't obvious due to decentralization -

From my experience: - Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content - Sign-up process isn't obvious due to decentralization - Likes, profiles sometimes had bugs or required extra clicks if from other servers - Few people I follow migrated from Twitter, and most have since stopped posting due to lack of engagement

mjhagen 3y ago
The pure chronologic feed is why I used Tweetbot and is why I'm on Mastodon.
- dbbk 3y ago
  Twitter has had a chronological feed for years
  - mjhagen 3y ago
    One that they actively discouraged users to use and reset every once in a while.
mrweasel 3y ago
> Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content People normally have the reverse complaint, that the algorithm makes them miss content.
- Yizahi 3y ago
  People (tech inclined and looking for a forum platform) want chronological feed, yes. But they want it usable too. Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread, and if you blink you miss the post and its gone forever. I tried Mastodon once, when it was just starting out and abandoned after playing around for a while. It's simply unusable, compared to any forum or reddit. Or even to a Facebook, with it's horrible UI. At least FB has groups and pages which kinda work like a bad crutch for categorization. Mastodon is lacking any of that.
  - joepie91_ 3y ago
    > Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools Huh? Mastodon certainly has hashtags. Likewise, there are posting groups. More implicitly, different social groups tend to cluster together and re-boost interesting things. Like, to be clear, fedi isn't going to be the right solution for everybody (or necessarily even for most people), and it's totally valid to dislike it or prefer something else. But it certainly does have organizational tools; they are just differently shaped.
  - cesarb 3y ago
    > Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread I don't know whether it helps your use case, but Mastodon has a "Lists" feature, which allows you to group the accounts you follow into separate realtime threads. For instance, one list could be for small accounts from which you don't want to miss any post, while another list might be for high-volume daily news accounts (and IIRC, there's even an option to "hide accounts on this list from your home timeline", so you could use lists for the noisy accounts and have everything else in the home timeline).
- Marazan 3y ago
  The majority of people who use Twitter use the algorithmic feed. HackerNews posters are not the typical Twitter users. (Just to be clear I personally hate the algorithmic feed but there are lots of use cases for it that just don't align with my Twitter usage)
solarkraft 3y ago
I agree about the algorithm. People wanting a strictly chronological timeline seem to largely be a very particular tech crowd. I don't personally notice a lack of engagement. Maybe not everyone migrated, but I feel like the most important people have.

mjhagen 3y ago

The pure chronologic feed is why I used Tweetbot and is why I'm on Mastodon.

dbbk 3y ago
Twitter has had a chronological feed for years
- mjhagen 3y ago
  One that they actively discouraged users to use and reset every once in a while.

mrweasel 3y ago

> Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content People normally have the reverse complaint, that the algorithm makes them miss content.

Yizahi 3y ago
People (tech inclined and looking for a forum platform) want chronological feed, yes. But they want it usable too. Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread, and if you blink you miss the post and its gone forever. I tried Mastodon once, when it was just starting out and abandoned after playing around for a while. It's simply unusable, compared to any forum or reddit. Or even to a Facebook, with it's horrible UI. At least FB has groups and pages which kinda work like a bad crutch for categorization. Mastodon is lacking any of that.
- joepie91_ 3y ago
  > Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools Huh? Mastodon certainly has hashtags. Likewise, there are posting groups. More implicitly, different social groups tend to cluster together and re-boost interesting things. Like, to be clear, fedi isn't going to be the right solution for everybody (or necessarily even for most people), and it's totally valid to dislike it or prefer something else. But it certainly does have organizational tools; they are just differently shaped.
- cesarb 3y ago
  > Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread I don't know whether it helps your use case, but Mastodon has a "Lists" feature, which allows you to group the accounts you follow into separate realtime threads. For instance, one list could be for small accounts from which you don't want to miss any post, while another list might be for high-volume daily news accounts (and IIRC, there's even an option to "hide accounts on this list from your home timeline", so you could use lists for the noisy accounts and have everything else in the home timeline).
Marazan 3y ago
The majority of people who use Twitter use the algorithmic feed. HackerNews posters are not the typical Twitter users. (Just to be clear I personally hate the algorithmic feed but there are lots of use cases for it that just don't align with my Twitter usage)

solarkraft 3y ago

I agree about the algorithm. People wanting a strictly chronological timeline seem to largely be a very particular tech crowd. I don't personally notice a lack of engagement. Maybe not everyone migrated, but I feel like the most important people have.