The flight from Musk's Twitter to the "free" fediverse never really took off.

Don’t like this article 😠 posting it in search of rebuttals. The word “moderation” is not to be found anywhere in it. Oops. Guess I didn’t read this closely enough 🤦‍♂️

  • realitista@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Migrating from Twitter and Facebook is much harder than migrating from Reddit. Twitter and Facebook have you follow mostly individuals, so if those individuals don’t all move at the same time to somewhere new, you never get the network effect. Whereas with Reddit, you follow topics. A list of topics can start small and grow with the community.

    And you don’t need even .1% of the users of Reddit to make a good community. As a Reddit user of 16 years, I would argue that good communities actually only happen when they are smaller like what we have here now.

    • lemillionsocks@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is it. The big appeal of twitter is that it has actual big names on it, that it has specific creatives and journalists, and media insiders, and etc.

      You’re a big wrestling fan who enjoys seeing tweets from wrestlers and their stupid kayfab beefs and such and then you jump onto mastodon and get pretty much nothing but linux nerds.

      The search and connectivity is also way harder to do because of how individual focused it is especially during the attempted migration. If I want to follow funny comedian from podcast I like and we’re at far off instances it might be hard. My instance might not update their stuff as often or I might not find them period or I have to use a third party browser extension or take to google and etc.

      Compared to a reddit/messageboard replacement. If I want to look up gaming discussion I click community, search, and gaming. Boom. Various federated gaming subs. I can sub to multiples and it doesnt really matter that usernameX didnt make the leap because usernamey did and theyre happy to discuss things.

    • shoe@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That was me, I think a total of two people I follow on Twitter moved to mastodon (out of ~150). For the rest, I’ve really been appreciating the bird.makeup server - it’s an account mirror for anyone on Twitter, which is fine for me since I mostly lurk. So I just rebuilt my following list on mastodon with that, works well!