I can’t speak for why, I never liked twitter, and I never really got into mastodon.
But yeah, the complaints I heard were along the lines of “links are broken” (I think they meant federation), “you can’t find people there”, and “there is no algorithm, so I get no chance of actually reaching people that I don’t know from somewhere”.
And I got to admit, twitter was actually good at being centralized. I don’t know about the rest, I never got anything going on there.
I could never wrap my head around the discoverability and reach issues – I haven’t had any problems with either of those, and I’m running a solo server (though I’ve come to suspect that there was maybe a jargon and expectation barrier, and they just couldn’t overcome the different layout).
What I can understand is running away from the somewhat, uh, hostile welcome many of them got. Instead of bringing people in and helping them acclimate, a bunch of folks just got up in new peoples’ faces and gave them no room to make faux pas.
I don’t see that happening here. The crowd that’s showed up over the last week or so has been made up of core Reddit folks, and the atmosphere is very Reddit in nature.
It’s just the volume of content that is missing, and that already feels like it’s inching toward critical mass and can become self-sustaining.
I dunno, I got pretty harshly criticized for using the wrong community for a tweet about current events. I agree that it wasn’t the best fit (even tho I also don’t agree with the suggestion I was given, which was more politically motivated than an actual attempt at being objective), but honestly, whether a given image belongs in a community can be a very subjective matter; so… yeah, I’m still not very fond of the reaction I got from some select users, and I can tell you I am not looking forward to interacting more with them again.
Honestly, I just don’t get twitter and never joined. I also don’t super get mastadon. I see people talking about having great conversations, but it seems like the WORST interface for that (fedilab on android anyway). It’s a good “rss aggregator” with comments, but the 500 character limit is still tiny for most comments I’d ever want to make, and the threading / comments are quite limited. At least on lemmy, if there’s a post people are replying to - you can see the replies, you’re not linked randomly half way through a thread, and you can type a longer comment. I just think I’m way more reddit acclimated, and actually I “grew up” with Slashdot so…
I can’t speak for why, I never liked twitter, and I never really got into mastodon.
But yeah, the complaints I heard were along the lines of “links are broken” (I think they meant federation), “you can’t find people there”, and “there is no algorithm, so I get no chance of actually reaching people that I don’t know from somewhere”.
And I got to admit, twitter was actually good at being centralized. I don’t know about the rest, I never got anything going on there.
I could never wrap my head around the discoverability and reach issues – I haven’t had any problems with either of those, and I’m running a solo server (though I’ve come to suspect that there was maybe a jargon and expectation barrier, and they just couldn’t overcome the different layout).
What I can understand is running away from the somewhat, uh, hostile welcome many of them got. Instead of bringing people in and helping them acclimate, a bunch of folks just got up in new peoples’ faces and gave them no room to make faux pas.
I don’t see that happening here. The crowd that’s showed up over the last week or so has been made up of core Reddit folks, and the atmosphere is very Reddit in nature.
It’s just the volume of content that is missing, and that already feels like it’s inching toward critical mass and can become self-sustaining.
I dunno, I got pretty harshly criticized for using the wrong community for a tweet about current events. I agree that it wasn’t the best fit (even tho I also don’t agree with the suggestion I was given, which was more politically motivated than an actual attempt at being objective), but honestly, whether a given image belongs in a community can be a very subjective matter; so… yeah, I’m still not very fond of the reaction I got from some select users, and I can tell you I am not looking forward to interacting more with them again.
Honestly, I just don’t get twitter and never joined. I also don’t super get mastadon. I see people talking about having great conversations, but it seems like the WORST interface for that (fedilab on android anyway). It’s a good “rss aggregator” with comments, but the 500 character limit is still tiny for most comments I’d ever want to make, and the threading / comments are quite limited. At least on lemmy, if there’s a post people are replying to - you can see the replies, you’re not linked randomly half way through a thread, and you can type a longer comment. I just think I’m way more reddit acclimated, and actually I “grew up” with Slashdot so…
Pretty much my opinion too. :)