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> But a lot of people ARE looking for Twitter 2.0 and a lot in the Mastodon Community WERE saying "we are it" Well, they were probably telling the truth from t

> But a lot of people ARE looking for Twitter 2.0 and a lot in the Mastodon Community WERE saying "we are it" Well, they were probably telling the truth from their perspective. Mastodon likely does a good job of replicating the value that those people were getting from Twitter. But not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way.

WorldMaker 3y ago
I've certainly suggested before that Mastodon feels to me like Twitter pre-2016, maybe even pre-2012. As an early Twitter adopter, that's something that I like about Mastodon, it can often feel like an older Twitter before the algorithms, before the "engagement scores", before the "brands" and "influencers". From my perspective, Mastodon was Twitter 2.0 for what I was looking for in "a Twitter". I think it is very clear that for good and bad, Mastodon and Twitter completely diverged somewhere around 2016. The Twitter of 2022 even before the new CEO's shenanigans looked almost unrecognizable to me, as an early Twitter user, as a Twitter user that left for Mastodon in 2016. From what I've heard Threads does a much better job at looking like 2022/2023 Twitter, and good for them for making a Twitter 2.0 that those sorts of users seem to want. (That certainly wasn't what I wanted from social media. Threads was a good reminder for me that I was entirely bored of Instagram notification spam and never using that account anyway, so I finally deactivated my Instagram account.) Yeah, not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way. The way continuously updated, heavily A/B tested software-as-a-service works as a river that you can never step in the same water twice, it was almost impossible for even just a single person to experience the "same Twitter" over time, so of course not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way.
- notpachet 3y ago
  > it was almost impossible for even just a single person to experience the "same Twitter" over time, so of course not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way. I meant more in the sense that different people would follow different accounts / hash tags based on their interests.
  - WorldMaker 3y ago
    Yeah, I agree with that. Was also just waxing philosophical that it was a lot more than that, too.

WorldMaker 3y ago

I've certainly suggested before that Mastodon feels to me like Twitter pre-2016, maybe even pre-2012. As an early Twitter adopter, that's something that I like about Mastodon, it can often feel like an older Twitter before the algorithms, before the "engagement scores", before the "brands" and "influencers". From my perspective, Mastodon was Twitter 2.0 for what I was looking for in "a Twitter". I think it is very clear that for good and bad, Mastodon and Twitter completely diverged somewhere around 2016. The Twitter of 2022 even before the new CEO's shenanigans looked almost unrecognizable to me, as an early Twitter user, as a Twitter user that left for Mastodon in 2016. From what I've heard Threads does a much better job at looking like 2022/2023 Twitter, and good for them for making a Twitter 2.0 that those sorts of users seem to want. (That certainly wasn't what I wanted from social media. Threads was a good reminder for me that I was entirely bored of Instagram notification spam and never using that account anyway, so I finally deactivated my Instagram account.) Yeah, not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way. The way continuously updated, heavily A/B tested software-as-a-service works as a river that you can never step in the same water twice, it was almost impossible for even just a single person to experience the "same Twitter" over time, so of course not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way.

notpachet 3y ago
> it was almost impossible for even just a single person to experience the "same Twitter" over time, so of course not everyone experienced Twitter in the same way. I meant more in the sense that different people would follow different accounts / hash tags based on their interests.
- WorldMaker 3y ago
  Yeah, I agree with that. Was also just waxing philosophical that it was a lot more than that, too.