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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 ajdude »

Someone in a friend group I'm in was complaining that the mastodon instance they are part of was shutting down because the admins just didn't feel like running it any further. He was distressed because we won't be able to easily export all of his posts. Meanwhile, I'm just disenfranchised because it's the third instance this year to have that same fate.

If I ever create a mastodon it'll just be me, on my own VM.

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

#102

Post by guerrilla »

suddenclarity wrote: post #92
guerrilla wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And this somehow means to you that it doesn't work for them? That's not a correct interpretation.

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

#104

Post by suddenclarity »

guerrilla wrote: post #102
suddenclarity wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Works fine for me and millions others. There are fewer than 1.5 million monthly active users on Mastodon according to their stats.

And this somehow means to you that it doesn't work for them? That's not a correct interpretation.

No. I'm saying the claim of "millions" might not be correct.

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

#105

Post by guerrilla »

suddenclarity wrote: post #104
guerrilla wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And this somehow means to you that it doesn't work for them? That's not a correct interpretation.

No. I'm saying the claim of "millions" might not be correct.

It might or might not, other counters show 11 million accounts, who knows how many active. Which metrics do each counter use and why do we believe they're representative of what we care about?

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

#106

Post by mmcnl »

> There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

I honestly have no idea what this says. Why would I care about "instances"? Why would I care about de-federating? I don't even know what these words mean.

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

#107

Post by jghn »

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 (almost) only see content and topics from people I follow

I have the same thing on Twitter.

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

#108

Post by jghn »

Hamuko wrote: post #18
FredPret wrote: post #6

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

Twitter actually has a bunch of killer features when compared to Mastodon, to a degree where "toots can have a content warning" seems trivial. One massive one being "able to search tweets".

Search, or the lack thereof, is my least favorite thing about the fediverse. The federated nature means it's not feasible to search across all instances the way I can search across all of Twitter.

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

#109

Post by ThrowawayTestr »

mmcnl wrote: post #106

> There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content. I honestly have no idea what this says. Why would I care about "instances"? Why would I care about de-federating? I don't even know what these words m…

De-federating means you isolate your private hugbox from even more people.

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

#110

Post by pxoe »

FredPret wrote: post #6

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

twitter has a bunch of 'conversation quality' features that they've amassed over time and which now make up their 'expertise' on this kind of social media format. and yes, that includes stuff like quote tweets, which mastodon for whatever reason stubbornly opposes and refuses to implement. like, wouldn't it be better, that if someone decides to talk about something, for there to be a definite link to the original? instead of just, having them vaguely talk about 'something someone said' without an actual exact reference? but nope, mastodon just kinda...doesn't think that through. not even on the 'what would disabling/not having this feature result in' level. and then they pretend like 'that's the solution', but it's just not.
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