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When I saw Mastodon shoot up into the millions of users I got so excited. I've seen so many free software social networks fail before. Mastodon is the first one I ever saw really take off. It ain't perfect, but it isn't a ghost town either.
TBH, Mastodon has pretty much the same cultural problems as Twitter. Don't know if it's the format, or some kind of founder effect, or what, but it's hip deep in self-promoting radlibs.
It's 100 percent the format. There are no good posts on twitter outside of "heh that was funny" for like 30 seconds. It's also very easy to artificially pump interaction.
Oh my god it should absolutely not be on anyone's mind. We've been given a gift, we're free of a restrictive website that doesn't allow for any meaningful discussion and is trivial to astroturf by corps and inteligence agencies and your response is "we should go to another one!" Between this and facebook's decline, we're close to being free. It sucks Reddit hasn't had a proper decline yet but ideally all of these websites would be relegated to bots or people over the age of 50 and everyone else either fucks around on specialized websites again (like, hear me out, forums or blogs) or preferably logs off.
If you're going to a mastodon honeypot, I think that's an awful decision. It's either going to be pointless infighting, or if it becomes an even slightly influential platform, Langely posters will put the fed back in fediverse.
fediverse should be on lots of folks minds right about now
When I saw Mastodon shoot up into the millions of users I got so excited. I've seen so many free software social networks fail before. Mastodon is the first one I ever saw really take off. It ain't perfect, but it isn't a ghost town either.
TBH, Mastodon has pretty much the same cultural problems as Twitter. Don't know if it's the format, or some kind of founder effect, or what, but it's hip deep in self-promoting radlibs.
It's 100 percent the format. There are no good posts on twitter outside of "heh that was funny" for like 30 seconds. It's also very easy to artificially pump interaction.
Oh my god it should absolutely not be on anyone's mind. We've been given a gift, we're free of a restrictive website that doesn't allow for any meaningful discussion and is trivial to astroturf by corps and inteligence agencies and your response is "we should go to another one!" Between this and facebook's decline, we're close to being free. It sucks Reddit hasn't had a proper decline yet but ideally all of these websites would be relegated to bots or people over the age of 50 and everyone else either fucks around on specialized websites again (like, hear me out, forums or blogs) or preferably logs off.
If you're going to a mastodon honeypot, I think that's an awful decision. It's either going to be pointless infighting, or if it becomes an even slightly influential platform, Langely posters will put the fed back in fediverse.