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It seems the majority of Mastodon users have already utilized this feature of Twitter. Some have even shut down their Twitter accounts.
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.
“Mastodon” as a product name, to me, doesn’t sound inviting at all. Evokes associations with masturbate, Mammoth and the general sense of something big, dark and clunky. If you have used the product and like it, I’m sure you won’t care about the name, or even come to like and cherish it. But for an outsider who just hears about this thing I would argue that it’s not very approachable.
“Mastodon” as a product name, to me, doesn’t sound inviting at all. Evokes associations with masturbate, Mammoth and the general sense of something big, dark and clunky. If you have used the product and like it, I’m sure you won’t care about the name, or even come to like and cherish it. But for an outsider who just hears about this thing I would argue that it’s not very approachable.
Apparently my mind isn't in the gutter like yours, but after using it, it's vastly better than Twitter ever was, and I left more than a year ago so I can't speak to what Twitter is now, but I hear it's going downhill.
Quite strong a judgement about another person based on a sample size of two sentences.
“Mastodon” as a product name, to me, doesn’t sound inviting at all. Evokes associations with masturbate, Mammoth and the general sense of something big, dark and clunky. If you have used the product and like it, I’m sure you won’t care about the name, or even come to like and cherish it. But for an outsider who just hears about this thing I would argue that it’s not very approachable.
Too many syllables, too much negative phonetic connotation and any focus group would tell you there's about 3 people that know what a Mastodon was. Should've gone with Mamood or some such romanticized version of an elephant thingy.
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> Twitter has this even more advanced feature called self de-federation. You activate it by simply scrolling away, closing the browser tab, taking a break, or even... going outside.. It seems the majority of Mastodon users have already utilized this feature of Twitter. Some have even shut down their Twitter accounts.