I left twitter without signing up for mastodon. Mastodon seems kind of lame, and user-hostile and I don't expect it to ever be mainstream.
Oh really? What other options do you recommend?
Ask HN: How many HN users are moving to Mastodon from Twitter?
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#12Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and often contradictory quirks.
For me, personally, it's not just the rule changes, but also the experience itself getting progressively worse and worse, especially on Android.
For instance, Twitter Spaces has always bugged out for me on my Android app(even pre-Elon). It just feels like a second-class citizen...
Re: Ask HN: How many HN users are moving to Mastodon from Twitter?
#13I moved. UX is not as bad as expected. All info/people i am interested in have also moved except a few who switched to substack instead.
Twitter is still quite a show but i suspect people will grow tired.
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#15After 15 years on Twitter, moved to Mastodon about a month ago (I still have the Twitter account, in case Musk comes to his senses and divests). So far, I'm a fan; it feels a bit like Twitter did in the early days, which is generally better than Twitter today. The mobile clients leave something to be desired, but apparently the Tweetbot people are making one.
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#16I never used Twitter, but I did sign up for a Mastodon account recently, in case the mass exodus from Twitter makes it an interesting place to be. It used to be common to hop along from one social network to the next, after all!
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#17I moved. UX is not as bad as expected. All info/people i am interested in have also moved except a few who switched to substack instead. Twitter is still quite a show but i suspect people will grow tired.
I've been feeling burned out on social media for a while even before Elon hit Twitter. I have very few real connections on Twitter so it's just been a consumption platform for me. Considering to let it die and take a break from things. I'm not eager to go chasing content creators to various different platforms. I need more platforms to watch as much as I need a swift kick to the head.
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#18I took the opportunity to delete my account. Finally one less social media to follow. I need to delete Facebook too, but maybe later.
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#19Be careful what you wish for. If random rule changes are something that you don't like, you certainly won't love whole instances banning you and/or your instance for not aligning perfectly with their highly individual and often contradictory quirks.
This is the reason I feel Nostr may overtake Mastodon given some time.
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#20I canned my Twitter account the day I first heard of the pending change in ownership
Not for some grand reason... I just realized I never used it or benefited from it
I won't be moving to mastodon but it's more that I'm tired of the format than anything specific to the platform