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samokosik ,
@samokosik@lemmynsfw.com avatar

Maybe if twitter keeps fucking shit up, mastodon will become mainstream haha. I would certainly love to see that.

Crass_Spektakel ,
@Crass_Spektakel@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t want to rain on your parade but I’ll do it anyway: The numbers of active posts and members in Lemmy communities, even in the most active ones, are mindbogglingly low in comparison with Reddit, even in comparison to somethingawful what I still consider the dirty cousin of Reddit.

All the numbers are just two sizes lower than Reddit and then there is the atrocious web interface. I have stopped counting how often my posts got eaten, the reply button didn’t react and general stuff didn’t work at all.

adonis OP ,
@adonis@kbin.social avatar

we willget there eventually.
you can't compare a product that is decades old wuth something that's fairly new.

CharlieAus ,

Addiction it is. They think they are advocating for health and social justice. But they’re not. They’re just addicted to Twitter/X. I mean… it’s owned by someone who pays fascists to post on there, but they are still there? WTAF?

CharlieAus ,

Mastadon is where the smart people hang out… X is the fascist site and Facebook/Threads is the frivolous and stupid site.

Ktheone ,

Nah, Facebook and x are both fascistic sides because of the amount of qanons and magats I’ve seen on facebook

CharlieAus ,

Hence why I haven’t had a Facebook or Instagram account in years.

kaotic ,

Elon has no idea how to run a social media company. At this point he’s just trying random shit hoping it will work. Get the platform operating successfully again and then worry about branding…

Buddahriffic ,

Assuming “hoping it works” is really part of his plan for the platform.

BingoBangoBongo ,

I honestly think that he believes himself to be some sort of super genius that only has good ideas, just cause he wrote some software and sold it for alot of money when he was younger.

notst ,
@notst@lemmy.world avatar

The guy actually wrote software? Like he coded it?

BingoBangoBongo ,

He wrote something called zip2 and sold it. Then he wrote get this… x.com, which became PayPal.

Edit, because I didn’t really answer your question: yes he did code it, as far as anyone seems to know.

smokeymcpott ,

More importantly: he was born rich

jantin ,

gossip that Elon has no idea about running anything was circulating for a long time but since Tesla/SpaceX were not social media it was easier to manage the PR to make Musk seem like “tech and business genius, also twitter troll” regardless of what was going on behind the scenes. On Twitter every single decision hits millions of people and businesses within an hour and managing that is impossible for any PR department so we get to see the man as who he really is.

Lucidlethargy ,

Serious question: Are Mastadon users just like kbin and Lemmy users, but with a character limit?

Hyphlosion ,
@Hyphlosion@donphan.social avatar

You mean, are we a part of the same Fediverse? Yes. I’m actually replying to you right now from my Mastodon account! Still not over how cool that is!

But yeah, there’s a character limit. The instance I’m from is donphan.social. Our character limit is 1,008.

Elevator7009 ,

Username checks out. I just checked out that instance because of the name, even though I have no intent of using Mastodon because I never liked Twitter. It’s like the perfect name for a Pokémon-themed Mastodon instance.

jantin ,

I tried Mastodon and failed. Lemmy is different IMO in that you can freely access, write on and read all lemmy communities from any Lemmy instance (and apparently from Mastodon). On Masto you’re quite siloed-in, can’t follow “local” from a thematic instance with an account on another (and in Lemmy you can follow thematic communities from all around the threadiverse), people won’t see your content unless they either actively follow you or read the local/global feed. Curating feed is a necessary effort and not too easy one since you only get to follow individual users.

jayrodtheoldbod ,

That’s a bummer, hang in there Mastodon, keep bloomscrollin

Hopefully a massive influx of Twitter jerks doesn’t kill what makes Mastodon a nice place in the first place.

Potato_in_my_anus ,

This is just another of Elon’s stunt to increase traffic to Twitter.

jaywalker ,

Or is he flushing Twitter down the Xitter?

SwallowsDick ,

In B4 Musk tweets this

nuke ,

I wonder if they’ll renew the twitter.com domain name

cmat273 ,

It would be hilarious if a random got that domain and threw a mastodon instance on it. They’ll probably keep it though lol

emax_gomax ,

Given how shamelessly stupid musks whole takeover has been I guarantee they wont won’t. He’ll probably assign someone to keep it renewed and then fire them.

FightMilk ,

Serious question, isn’t this going to force them to release their trademark on the word “tweet”?

Rentlar ,

Quick, someone create a Mastodon Frontend Twatter that uses different logos than X yet seems oddly familiar…

TerkErJerbs ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/3a0a6027-5a4a-4cdc-acd2-8cec8d7fd2f4.webp

JudahBenHur ,

nice

guckfoogle ,

Wow That is a ugly logo 🤢

quaddo ,

Reminds me of the X-windows logo

AzureRT ,
@AzureRT@reddthat.com avatar

God I hate that. It’s confusing on mobile

jupiter_rowland ,

CalcKey should have been renamed ℂ instead of Firefish. Because.

woshang ,

I guess the whole Threads battle making Elon realize he needs to be the data master, and X born earlier than I expected

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

I hear ya… The advantage that Lemmy and kbin have over Mastodon is that Redditors tend to be more technically inclined than Twitter users, so ditching Reddit for Lemmy was easy, while I only know a grand total of three people on Mastodon, and two of them are tech YouTubers.

TheRedSpade ,

Redditors tend to be more technically inclined than Twitter users

This used to be true, but Reddit has been mainstream for years now. Today’s average Redditor is likely pretty similar to the average Twitter user.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

When a quarter of the replies on Reddit have become “this” or “💯” or “^^,” which it feels like it became when I left, I’d agree with you.

cactus ,

bump

BeardedGingerWonder ,

This

Neoncamouflage ,

^^

TerkErJerbs ,

nice

odium , (edited )

fr fr

teuast ,

💯

Wiz ,

Is

Busy ,

I remember when you’d get ripped apart and down voted to hell for daring to use an emoji on Reddit when commenting. People hated it. Then one day it was fine to do it, no one cared anymore. I guess that’s around when Reddit became mainstream, maybe.

beefbaby182 ,
@beefbaby182@mastodon.world avatar

@Busy @FlyingSquid

Probably cause more and more users gravitated to mobile where it became commonplace to include emojis in posts. I remember too when using emojis was a mortal sin. At most you could use an emoticon but that was it.

notst ,
@notst@lemmy.world avatar

Back when I started using Reddit it was frowned upon to post OC. I remember some subs had rules that you would be banned if you more than like 10% of your posts were OC.

marx2k ,

And my axe!

Tag365 ,
@Tag365@lemmy.world avatar

I feel like when the Reddit API controversy happened I was more inclined to switch due to the blackout vs Twitter which didn’t have nearly as instant of an event that would happen to get me off. Now all of a sudden because of Reddit I’m on various Fediverse projects such as Funkwhale, Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy.

nomadjoanne ,

Interesting. That is a good point

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

The vast majority of my friends on Twitter are artists, and the older ones ended up there when Angelo Sotira (spyed) got greedy on deviantArt. One of them ended up on mastodon.art, but the rest of them are trying out Threads, unfortunately.

Saneless ,

Plus there’s some staying power to posts on here

I’m replying to what you wrote 10 hours ago. My local feed would be a lot of shit before I ever saw this

And it’s 100% relevant to the area of content I wanted to read. Same if I went to a gaming or news related group

Bogasse ,

But in the other hand lemmy seems much more mature than lemmy.

Don’t get me wrong, the experience has been rapidly growing in recent weeks thanks to the proliferation of third party apps 👍 But Mastodon’s first party experience feels solid and their new official app just blends in any mainstream app.

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

I assume you mean Mastodon seems much more mature than Lemmy?

Yeah, I’d agree with you there. I’ve had zero issues trying to find people and content on Mastodon, while I have had federation issues with Lemmy. And I do use the official Mastodon app.

My only gripe with Mastodon is that it isn’t obvious that you should follow hashtags. I didn’t know this at first and struggled to get into it with post after post complaining about Elon, but once I figured out to follow hashtags, I like it now. I’m just annoyed that all the artists I follow on Twitter are flocking to Threads and Bluesky instead of Mastodon though.

UnivesityHelpful829 ,

xvideos twitter videos? lmao

woshang ,

sounds sus

UnivesityHelpful829 ,

it’s lesser evil compare to amont of other memes after elon deside to name twitter “X” … xbox series x on x platform… sounds even more sus in my mind…

woshang ,

X video…

TerkErJerbs ,

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/8fb1d6c9-6c53-4f5c-ae57-a4cc88585cf7.webp

recapitated ,

lol there has got to be a better cadence to deliver this joke. like “Twitter, now called X, has launched a new video sharing service at xvideos.com”

teuast ,

i think the mildly techy sounding waffle is the right way to set it up personally, it lulls you into a false sense of security thinking this is just some random tech nonsense and then bam, porn

milkjug ,
@milkjug@lemmy.world avatar

Risky click of the day, but turns out its benign and family-friendly. Thanks for sharing.

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