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Deceptive. Half the tech people I used to follow on Twitter now post exclusively on Mastodon.

jghn 2y ago
Deceptive. While half the tech people I used to follow on Twitter moved to Mastodon, three quarters of them have either shifted to bsky or post to both via mirroring.
- azakai 2y ago
  Aside from tech, though: practically none of the non-tech people I followed on Twitter moved to Mastodon. Almost all of them went to Bluesky. I follow a mix of people, so I ended up mostly on Bluesky. I would have been happy on Mastodon too, and I don't know why it didn't catch on with non-tech people, but it just hasn't. So Bluesky is our main opportunity for an open social web, at this time.
  - ajmurmann 2y ago
    It sounds stupid but I think the bit where you pick your host was too much for normies or led to pushing off the decision and just not joining. Even when you have an account you know have to pick a client.
    - shawabawa3 2y ago
      I've never used twitter or any of the alternatives but I'm glad not many people are going to mastodon The number of dead links I've had where the shard is down or overloaded is way too high The design simply doesn't work imo
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- jay_kyburz 2y ago
  Hey, question. Is mirroring officially supported by either platform. So for example, can I configure my blue sky account to just monitor my mastodon feed and re-post things for me?
  - tlarkworthy 2y ago
    I see some BlueSky users mirroring their content from Mastodon
  - m-p-3 2y ago
    There's a bidirectional bridge available https://fed.brid.gy/ https://fed.brid.gy/
WJW 2y ago
Have the non-tech people you used to follow on Twitter also migrated to Mastodon? What about the other half of the tech people, where did they go? Labeling another post as deceptive and then trying to use just one demographic (and not a very large one at that) as proof for whether mastodon is "large" in percentage terms is not very reassuring as to the level of discussion on Mastodon tbh.
- archagon 2y ago
  I am just relaying my experience. Bluesky and Mastodon together cover 90% of the intelligent discussion I used to get on Twitter, weighed more heavily towards Mastodon. To pretend it’s a dead platform is ridiculous.

jghn 2y ago

Deceptive. While half the tech people I used to follow on Twitter moved to Mastodon, three quarters of them have either shifted to bsky or post to both via mirroring.

azakai 2y ago
Aside from tech, though: practically none of the non-tech people I followed on Twitter moved to Mastodon. Almost all of them went to Bluesky. I follow a mix of people, so I ended up mostly on Bluesky. I would have been happy on Mastodon too, and I don't know why it didn't catch on with non-tech people, but it just hasn't. So Bluesky is our main opportunity for an open social web, at this time.
- ajmurmann 2y ago
  It sounds stupid but I think the bit where you pick your host was too much for normies or led to pushing off the decision and just not joining. Even when you have an account you know have to pick a client.
  - shawabawa3 2y ago
    I've never used twitter or any of the alternatives but I'm glad not many people are going to mastodon The number of dead links I've had where the shard is down or overloaded is way too high The design simply doesn't work imo
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jay_kyburz 2y ago
Hey, question. Is mirroring officially supported by either platform. So for example, can I configure my blue sky account to just monitor my mastodon feed and re-post things for me?
- tlarkworthy 2y ago
  I see some BlueSky users mirroring their content from Mastodon
- m-p-3 2y ago
  There's a bidirectional bridge available https://fed.brid.gy/ https://fed.brid.gy/

WJW 2y ago

Have the non-tech people you used to follow on Twitter also migrated to Mastodon? What about the other half of the tech people, where did they go? Labeling another post as deceptive and then trying to use just one demographic (and not a very large one at that) as proof for whether mastodon is "large" in percentage terms is not very reassuring as to the level of discussion on Mastodon tbh.

archagon 2y ago
I am just relaying my experience. Bluesky and Mastodon together cover 90% of the intelligent discussion I used to get on Twitter, weighed more heavily towards Mastodon. To pretend it’s a dead platform is ridiculous.