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Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by K5EiS »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #33

Having switched to my own Mastodon host ( https://social.mailpace.com/@paul ), there are two huge differences: 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well 2. There are no ads, anywhere. Nothing. It’s so strange to experience this and so refreshing It’s definitely a little qu…

I don't see how that is any different than Twitter to be honest. I only see posts from people I follow and I see no ads even without Twitter Blue.

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by endorphine »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #33

Having switched to my own Mastodon host ( https://social.mailpace.com/@paul ), there are two huge differences: 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well 2. There are no ads, anywhere. Nothing. It’s so strange to experience this and so refreshing It’s definitely a little qu…

> 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well

Why "almost" though? Does Mastodon shows tweets from people you don't follow? Or is that a preference setting for this?

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by ascorbic »

jna_sh wrote: post #24
hennell wrote: post #16

Twitter does have a bookmarks feature. It's called bookmarks...

It’s so under-supported it might as well be write-only. Last I checked, there wasn’t even a way to search your bookmarks within the UI.

Search isn't exactly something Mastodon is winning at

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by gordian-mind »

ChildOfChaos wrote: post #27

I mean it's almost average satire, but really nobody cares about Mastodon in the mainstream and never will. It's a worse version of twitter, like all of the tools such people use, woke people just started using it to virtue signal against Elon Musk. It's just this weird fringe platform, used by a load of outsiders, hackers and developers, but in terms

That's true: unless you're on a very specialized instance, what you see on Mastodon is in large part r/worldnews outrage engagement content.

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by satvikpendem »

I created a Mastodon account, in some server that I can't remember now. I tried to follow people but couldn't figure out how to follow them if they were in different servers (back when the Twitter exodus happened, the main Mastodon server stopped new account creation). I gave up after a few more days of trying and went back to Twitter.

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

endorphine wrote: post #42
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #33

Having switched to my own Mastodon host ( https://social.mailpace.com/@paul ), there are two huge differences: 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well 2. There are no ads, anywhere. Nothing. It’s so strange to experience this and so refreshing It’s definitely a little qu…

> 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well Why "almost" though? Does Mastodon shows tweets from people you don't follow? Or is that a preference setting for this?

People retweet/boost posts, and if you add relays to your instance you’ll see “trends” and other topics in the federated timeline

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by satvikpendem »

malermeister wrote: post #38
oytis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From the user's point of view really. Why would I spend time on a social network where few of the people I know or interested in are present?

Why are you posting on HN instead of reddit then? It's much larger after all.

> where few of the people I know or interested in are present?

They never said larger, and yes, more is not always better. There are simply more interesting people I want to hear from on HN than on Reddit. But this is also true in my case for Twitter over Mastodon and is one reason why I stopped using Mastodon.

Re: Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)

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Post by albertgoeswoof »

K5EiS wrote: post #41
albertgoeswoof wrote: post #33

Having switched to my own Mastodon host ( https://social.mailpace.com/@paul ), there are two huge differences: 1. I (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow. Which means everything is specific to the interests of the people I choose to follow, and that list needs to be curated well 2. There are no ads, anywhere. Nothing. It’s so strange to experience this and so refreshing It’s definitely a little qu…

I don't see how that is any different than Twitter to be honest. I only see posts from people I follow and I see no ads even without Twitter Blue.

On Ads, perhaps you have an adblocker on your desktop, but on mobile you’ll end up forced to use an app, and given twitter’s api is now pretty much closed off, there will be ads in those clients/apps.

Elon needs to make money, and you will eventually see ads or give him money if you use his platform

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