Mastodon vs Twitter
Discussions center on Mastodon as a potential Twitter alternative, comparing user experiences, traction, network effects, federation benefits, and challenges like low user counts.
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How is Mastodon? Does it rival Twitter in terms of usefulness?
I switched from twitter to Mastodon recently. It isn't a perfect replacement since the network effect keeps user counts low but I've found it generally scratches the same itch.
I still see more links to twitter then to mastodon on HN.
Wait, does Mastodon have traction?
I created a mastodon presence a while ago, and then forgot about it, and then got back on there today after deleting my twitter (I had an acct since 2008 but barely used it anyways) and it seems there is a bit of an inbound wave happening. But as it's not really an environment much like Twitter, I think a lot of people will sign up, poke around and leave.I also just made it on mstdn.social, but probably I should have applied into one of the more specialist fedi-thingies. I dunno.Shou
isn't the point of twitter that you follow only who you want and other people's garbage doesn't show up if you don't want it? what makes mastodon different in that regard?
Why would you install different Mastodon servers when you can go to twitter.com instead?
Not the parent commenter, but mastodon is not appealing if you want a large audience.
Mastodon is not using ActivityPub. Firstly, the AP specification is so terrible you can't actually implement it practically. Secondly, Mastodon mostly ignores the spec anyway and just does something similar. For instance, AP specifies the use of JSON-LD for documents and Mastodon uses plain JSON, so every other application also uses plain JSON and the spec doesn't matter.As for the rest: I don't see the problem in people not seeing things they aren't interested in.The r
It would be best if you had users and followers to broadcast messages. Right now, mastodon feels like a ghost town. But who knows? There was a time when MySpace was king. Only time will tell ..Also, Twitter works because of eyeballs. However, with so many Mastodon instances, people need to learn and find out who the real @nixcraft is. Sorry to say this, but I don't think so; we have an actual Twitter replacement right now. In another six months, someone might build it, or Elon will make