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> (ironically, most of them are still using X, formally known as Twitter). Dunno, feels like the only people leaving X was the people who didn't use X anyway.
by dusted 3y ago
> (ironically, most of them are still using X, formally known as Twitter).
Dunno, feels like the only people leaving X was the people who didn't use X anyway..
I've been using it with the same frequency as before Musik took over, and to be honest, I've not noticed anything different in the stuff I see/find/interact.
- __alexs 3y agoI followed 3000 people and read and posted most days. Haven't even opened the app since the logo changed. Most of the people I interacted with are now on Mastodon. I guess we just have different circles.
- dusted 3y agoI was banned on the mastodon instance I was on for saying that people should have the same rights regardless on the color of their skin, so I decided that probably the people who leave for Mastodon are not the ones I should spend any time with anyhow.
- pferde 3y ago"It rained the day I visited a particular city, I can't believe why people would live in cities if it rains all the time in them!" Dude, you merely chose an instance with racists in charge. My guess is, it is probably isolated from the rest of the instances already anyway. Shop around for a better instance, most of them are very pleasant. But I do not blame you for giving up - people in the past twenty or so years have been conditioned to centralized services each acting as huge singular meeting square, so this experience of having to choose a community seems unnatural to many. I don't know, maybe think of it as finding a decent subreddit on Reddit?
- redox99 3y agoMastodon has a very heavy moderation against anything that isn't the "SF mentality". And servers that don't moderate like this get defederated. I prefer the more lenient X moderation.
- pferde 3y agoYou mean the "don't be a dick to others" mentality? Yeah, there's a lot of that on Mastodon, thank god.
- kmlx 3y agoi completely stopped using it since july. the quality of the experience has been atrocious for me.
- nightfly 3y agoI now have stuff shoved at me on the home screen that I don't know who they are, don't want to see their stuff, or both. I'm only ever on Twitter to see stuff from a small handful of people so it's very noticeable.
- preisschild 3y ago> I've not noticed anything different in the stuff I see/find/interact. I definitely did. Russian disinformation from random accounts, such as "Catturd", show up on my home page.
- rsynnott 3y agoI was a pretty heavy Twitter user since 2007 (back when it had visible sequential numeric IDs, mine was six figures) and gave up a couple of months after the coming of Naughty Old Mr Car. For me his war on journalists in late 2022 was the last straw (I did return once for a silly joke in December when uttering the dread word 'Mastodon' was briefly banned), but even if that hadn't bothered me, the end of third party clients a month or so afterwards and the promotion of replies from gormless bluetick idiots above all else in the same timeframe would've killed it for me. That said, I'm happy enough with Mastodon now; it feels a lot more like old (early-10s) Twitter. I'm keeping the account, for now, on the basis that he might at some point get bored and go back to his imaginary car tunnels, and sell the remains of Twitter to someone sensible (presumably Automattic, which collects mortally wounded social networks).