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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 CM30 »

FredPret wrote: post #6

Twitter has one killer feature: lots of users. Everything else is just detail.

Yeah, this is it. Otherwise you'd think the non federated Twitter alternatives that popped up recently (Cohost, Post, Hive, Substack Notes, etc) would be lighting the world on fire and taking lots of Twitter's disgruntled users.

But they're not, because the majority of Twitter's users haven't moved over. And without the majority moving over, said majority has no reason to.

Federation is basically irrelevant to the success or failure of a platform, since the technical details of how its implemented don't matter to 99% of the userbase. If their friends and idols use Mastodon, they'll learn how to use it. If they don't, they won't.

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

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Post by suddenclarity »

guerrilla wrote: post #63
pearjuice wrote: post #50

Mastodon is a wasteland. It can't compete with the engagement and exposure you can get on Twitter. For a social network, any feature parity is irrelevant if it can't reach critical mass.

for you . Works fine for me and millions others.

> Works fine for me and millions others.

There are fewer than 1.5 million monthly active users on Mastodon according to their stats.

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

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Post by coffeeisyummy »

Did you know that the Macintosh Performa 6400 was the PC to have in 1997 if you wanted the best combination of performance and high quality software?

That's what this blog post reminds me of. I loved my Macs in the 1990s, but I knew I wasn't going to have access to a fraction of the software available to Windows machines at the time. Access to a wide-range of software was the killer feature of PCs, back then.

And in the case of social media, access to as many eyeballs as possible, reach, is the killer feature. Everything else is just features that add to or subtract from accessing that reach.

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

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Post by CyberDildonics »

prmoustache wrote: post #65
satvikpendem wrote: post #46

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.

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* filters out

* too dumb

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

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Post by endorphine »

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.

True that, thanks to uBlock Origin though. Browsing the web without it nowadays is crazy.

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

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Post by pipeline_peak »

Except you know…the actual amount of users that make the social media platform worth using…

We get it, you hate Musk and Big Tech. Nobody outside the tech world wants to “spin up” a protocol instance, and not enough resources would host all those people for free.

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

#99

Post by DonsDiscountGas »

DeathArrow wrote: post #60

The amount of users who care about Mastodon is negligible when compared with the amount of Twitter users. People have already voted and Mastodon got the thumbs down.

Nobody is going to use TikTok, everybody can just use Instagram and YouTube - Lots of people 5 years ago.

The market isn't an election with a fixed end date. Twitter didn't even exist 20 years ago, it's not going to last forever.

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

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Post by pipeline_peak »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #49
K5EiS wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Don’t the people hosting these instances need to make money as well?
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