As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch
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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.
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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.
that's cool. The Masto instance I've been on for the last half year is no longer available and I'll have to start over because I didn't have a main and a back up account like I ended up with on Lemmy, but sure, that's alright. I have no idea what happened, the instance still has a blank page up, but it ain't Mastodon.
I was finally feeling moved in but now, kaput.
I don't think this thing was really ready for absolutely everyone on Twitter to bail onto it, is the problem. I don't think it was ever supposed to be. It was always supposed to be like a clubhouse for people who didn't mind being the dweebs of the internet.
For everyone on Twitter to bail onto it there would need to be an instance with the same level of funding and infrastructure as Twitter to support it.
Mastodon will never be a twitter replacement simply because of lack of algorithm and proper content discovery, but seemingly the devs and admins there are fine with it and prefer it that way. It is definitely not filling my need for curated news and discovery of new interests that twitter used to provide before it went to shit, seems like bluesky might take over that function since most big content creators are shilling their bs pages nowadays.
The lack of algorithms is what a lot of Mastodon users like about the platform. Many just want a timeline of posts of the accounts nd hashtags they follow.
There is also room for both to exist, one doesn't have to replace the other.
That's pretty much what I said, and I'm not saying its the wrong choice for them - it just means that Mastodon can never be the replacement for twitter, yet people keep bringing it up as an alternative. I personally want news that I care about and on mastodon it all gets buried in a chronological feed filled with irrelevant stuff I don't care about. I'd probably like it if it only consisted of close friends that I care about, so its like a tightly knit social network, but not when its randoms across the world with some very hot or annoying takes.
And I'd love an alternative but bluesky is gonna have the same issue as twitter, its owned by the same type of people and actually funded by twitter the company from what i read. It's just trading one devil for another.
Mastodon doesn't want to replace twitter. Twitter is shit. Mastodon is already far better than twitter. Mastodon depends on twitter continuing to exist so that twitter can suck up all the shit and leave the rest of us in peace.
If you were getting your news from Twitter, it probably turned you into an idiot already! So no worries.
Sounds just like Lemmy and any other fediverse service.