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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

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.

Squidquid ,

Can anyone help explain how to find content worth following on Mastodon? I made an account today and despite going through the category I’m finding it difficult to find content or people I want to follow. The few things I’ve found end up just being Lemmy communities which kind of defeats the purpose of having a mastadon account at all… maybe it’s because I never had a Twitter, but the Lemmy/reddit/forum layout makes much more sense to me

jupiter_rowland ,

@Squidquid Option #1: Search for a hashtag. If it exists, and it's halfway active, follow it. No, I'm not kidding you, you can do that on Mastodon.

Option #2: the people section on fediverse.info.

Option #3: No matter which instance you're on, go to mastodon.social with your Web browser and search it for interesting hashtags. This may reveal to you more people who are interested in those topics/write about those topics.

Also, if you want to learn more about the Fediverse beyond Lemmy (and beyond Mastodon, for that matter), go follow [email protected]. It's a public forum on Friendica. You'll learn soon enough what Friendica is.

pumpensumpf ,

One idea is to browse the hashtag and follow people whose introductions sound promising to you. The hashtag might also be useful. If you want to follow scholars and scientists, there is this list grouped by discipline: github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodonAnd in general, you can follow hashtags on Mastodon, e.g. “” for pictures of plants.

Kaldo ,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

Unfortunately this is not the fault of mastodon, its community or tech behind it as much as ... nobody from twitter actually moving to mastodon. There aren't many big influencers, companies or content creators on mastodon so your feed is just random people talking about random stuff. The lack of algorithm doesn't help either since someone's random showerthoughts have the same chance of showing up for you as does something trending that you'd actually be interested in.

Boiglenoight ,

Follow / pin active hashtags. I have 4, and . I’m a simple man

Kaldo ,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

And then I get even more random irrelevant crap because everyone talking about their latest rp adventures in stardew valley tags steam, gaming, indiegaming and other general hashtags.

Boiglenoight ,

There’s some of that, but I prefer it for something like micro blogging. I want to see different things, points of view. By contrast, I’ll go to a news site for specific info. I love Mastodon because there’s a unvarnished stream of information that isn’t curated by algorithms. :D

khajimak ,
@khajimak@lemmy.world avatar

Yep, everyone I followed on Twitter went to Bluesky, some made accounts on Mastodon, but none of them stuck around

MaxPow3r11 ,

It depends on what you are into. If you like anime (for example) you could try something broad like # (anime) [no spaces and such] & then see what other hashtags people are using from there. The same with music or something. That’s what I do at least. There might be better ways but a lot of times people are into similar stuff and that can lead down different paths as well.

TORFdot0 ,

Sportsbots.xyz host mirrors of the popular sports writers. I follow thurrott from twit apple insider and 9 to 5 max. Tech meme is good for tech news headlines. I fill krebs on security as well. It’s better than twitter because it’s chronological and not algorithm fed

penguin ,

I’m interested to know which accounts to follow for lemmy news. Seems like a natural place to go when having trouble connecting like I did with fmhy before and shit just works recently.

xapr ,

It takes some effort to build up and shape your Home feed on Mastodon. One good starting point is to search for hashtags that you’re interested in, like or or whatever. It may take some trial and error to find the most popular hashtags being used in your topics of interest. Once you find the hashtags with stuff that’s interest to you, follow those hashtags so you will continue to discover new people and posts in those topics in your Home feed. Once you find interesting people posting in those hashtags, follow them. The name of the game on Mastodon is to follow, follow, follow. I’ve heard it said that your feed will get pretty good when you follow around 200 people or so.

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

ComeHereOrIHookYou ,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

What makes this even better is that apparently Mark Zuckerberg / Mets owns trademark for the X logo.

You know what that means! Millionaire monkey money fight!

agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

Wait so the cage match is still a possibility?

ComeHereOrIHookYou ,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

There is a possibility!

rooster_butt ,

I hate to correct you, but it’s a billionaire baboon bills brawl.

ComeHereOrIHookYou ,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

Damn, that’s even better!

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

An affluent ape asset altercation.

Uranium_Green ,

Grossly gilded gorilla grapple?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Overhyped orangutan oligarch octagon ordeal.

Excrubulent ,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Lucrative lemur litigation.

Zana ,

The Mets own it too?

ComeHereOrIHookYou ,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

I mean sure why not! lmao

joel_feila ,
@joel_feila@lemmy.world avatar

Microsoft also as a trademark for X.

deleted ,

I don’t like twitter nor Elon but why would someone leave a platform because they would change their name?

Elon has done more damage before so people who would consider leaving should be long gone.

Seasoned_Greetings , (edited )

You’re not wrong, but consider that people who justified sticking around for some reason or another might leave because the brand change (to a name that is so brain dead even a little offensive) finally hits home for them that it isn’t going to be the same.

A brand name change is about the single most overt thing you can do to send the message that a product isn’t going to be the same. And when that happens, people tend to look at the recent trends for that product to get an idea of what to expect. The recent trends for Twitter happen to be right-wing echo chamber.

So yeah, the people who were going to leave have largely already left. But this brand change is going to be effective at galvanizing those who remain.

deleted ,

Make sense.

sundrei ,
@sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You could make the argument that all his previous outrageous behaviors were desperate attempts to squeeze more money out of a business he didn’t understand. But this… this is unhinged. It’s so bafflingly pointless and dumb it’s become clear that what was once a reliable dopamine delivery system could, without warning or reason, just… disappear one day. Even the people who rely on Twitter like addicts are starting to come up with exit strategies.

Uno ,

I’d argue as well that all the past dumb decisions, (Twitter Blue, anybody being able to name themselves anything they want, bugs everywhere, not being able to see anything without an account), all of that was just stuff you only had to passively bear. Now, it’s a brand change that will at least have you typing something different into Google to reach “X,” but it is still an active change you have to make.

If I had a Twitter account that was connected to my business, already had a whole bunch of followers, and was somewhat addicted to Twitter, I could understand having a hard time leaving. At the very least inertia would be a good enough reason for people to stay. But switching the brand recognition?

  • First off, you’ve disrupted the Twitter addictions of everyone on the site, because you’d have to know that blue bird logo is associated with a lot of people’s dopamine responses
  • Second off, now that people are already being forced to make a change, there’s less opportunity cost to jump ship to elsewhere
ttmrichter ,

It’s a “final straw” situation. No individual straw broke the back of the proverbial camel. One straw after another was placed atop it until finally the back broke. It’s not the final straw that broke said back, but the load of all the straws including the final that did it.

So they’re not necessarily quitting because of the name change. They’re quitting because of everything else plus the name change. That was the thing that pushed the go/no-go decision into “go”.

CrypticFawn ,
@CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I don’t like twitter nor Elon but why would someone leave a platform because they would change their name?

Twitter has been around for so long, many are attached to it on an emotional level. It’s older than my eldest niece; she’s known about it since she could memorize the damn word.

So as dumb as it is that THIS is what pushes people to leave, I’m glad more are leaving regardless.

agent_flounder ,
@agent_flounder@lemmy.one avatar

Maybe because this new decision is so unbelievably idiotic either it is the last straw or maybe some people realize twitter x is lost cause? Idk.

dreadedsemi ,

I opened Twitter page and it shows login page with small x on left and big x in the middle. But only one closes the popup.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I just checked too. And if you close popup it takes you do another login page (also with an X) but that one can’t be closed. So apparently there is no way to browse Twitter without an account now, which you could before.

People always used to claim that getting banned from twitter meant you were cut off from important information. It’s highly debatable that there was any important information on twitter. That aside it wasn’t really true you were cut off entirely, you could still browse tweets, just couldn’t post when banned. Now it seems being banned does mean you’re cut off from reading it.

Klear ,

Yeah, that’s a change from while back.

cleric10 ,

Twitter was really good for news media and it kinda still is. Where I come from legacy media have been bought off by plutocrats who are in bed with the government and only reputable source of news are independent media which don’t have enough funding or financial backing to appear on satellite TV channels. There’s also no incentive for the incumbent to let such media flourish since legacy media is doing their dirty work. So for people like me this is a huge setback.

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…

Whirlybird ,

Twitter hasn’t even rebranded yet and an article like this comes out? Jumping the gun a bit don’t they think?

99% of the people that were leaving twitter when musk took over are still there. They’re too invested to leave. People like Steven King just keep making fools of themselves by still being there 12 months later complaining about how bad Twitter is.

Onii-Chan ,
@Onii-Chan@kbin.social avatar

These people are addicted to such a degree that they're functionally on the same level as literal junkies, just without the physical damage. Social media was such a fucking mistake, and I don't think we're ever going to recover from it within our lifetime.

Ted Kaczynski was right.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

These people are addicted to such a degree that they’re functionally on the same level as literal junkies, just without the physical damage. Social media was such a fucking mistake,

  • Onii-Chan@kbin.social
Onii-Chan , (edited )
@Onii-Chan@kbin.social avatar

I mean, yeah. The only 'social media' I have is kbin, and I check it once or twice a day. If it went anywhere, I wouldn't really give a shit, as I left all the major platforms years ago and adding one more to that list wouldn't bother me. Don't group me in with Twitter (x?) users because I called them out on their addiction, when I've already done what they seemingly can't.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

Check out the app or webpage, they’ve already put in the temp X logo

Whirlybird ,

The app is still called twitter with the twitter logo, at least on iOS.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

Well they started taking down the Twitter sign at HQ, so it’s happening

Whirlybird ,

I’m not denying that it’s happening, I’m simply saying that the rebrand hasn’t even happened on the main way people interact with twitter, yet we have article after article saying that people are leaving in droves because of the rebrand…that they haven’t seen yet.

DmMacniel ,

It did though? Twitter.com no longer shows the bird (replaced by an X). It’s loading screen is a stylised X. And x.com points to the same server.

Whirlybird ,

The app is still called twitter with the bird logo, at least on iOS.

Also what it’s called is irrelevant. It’s still twitter, it’ll still behave the same, it’s still got the 500 million users. Why would anyone leave a platform simply because it changed names and url?

DmMacniel ,

What it’s called isn’t irrelevant. Twitter blue, tweeting, Twitter and tweets are all linked to Twitter and not to X. And X is what it’s called now. So post on X and follow me on X.

Just because the App on iOS and or android haven’t been updated to reflect that change doesn’t mean it hasn’t been rebranded yet.

How it will affect the users? Well that’s to be seen. The first waves of Userscripts surely will follow soon to replace X with the bird in browsers.

Edit: just checked the twitter App on the android play store may still be named by such but is now owned by X Corp. The most generic name ever.

Whirlybird ,

Why is what it’s named relevant? Twitter blue will be renamed. Functionally nothing will change.

all-knight-party ,
@all-knight-party@fedia.io avatar

Usually a rebrand signifies a change in the direction or focus of the brand. I don't keep up with it much, so on a surface level this rebrand seems like more of a "I like it better this way" on Elon's part than a true rebrand with a point and reason.

Teal ,

Is he saying we should all X communicate?

JudahBenHur ,

clever

cmrn ,

This is probably a stupid question, but for those of you that use Mastodon — how did you find people to follow?

I tried it out a few months ago but I didn’t like the few accounts they recommended, and searching for users or keywords didn’t get me too far either…

Designate6361 ,

I mainly used it for news till the rate limiting but i just followed news sources and have since found users to follow.

rglullis , (edited )
@rglullis@communick.news avatar

What I did in the very beginning:

  • don’t worry about the instance that you are on. My server is quite generic and is meant to be a simple entrypoint to the fediverse, not a “community in itself”.
  • Go to the mastodon directory to find the list of servers based on interests. fosstodon is one for FOSS enthusiasts, beekeeping is for those interesting in gardening, mountains.social is for those that like hiking, etc. The important thing here is to find servers that are not huge, but that have an active userbase.
  • Now, the real trick: for all these servers you found that could be interesting, you go browse at the federated timeline. This will give not only the activity from people in the server, but you will also see what they are following, boosting, etc. To me this was a way to find not just interesting people, but who the interesting people are following as well.
  • Be very generous when browsing these timelines, and follow as many as you can possibly can. During the first week, try to add 50 a day.
  • Follow hashtags. This will also make your timeline more lively and will bring different people who might be interesting to you.
  • Write an intro post, and pin it to your profile. Usually pinned profiles are always visible between servers, so it will make it easy for people to interact with you.
  • (Somewhat controversial, but I do it) If you have people that you like to follow on Twitter, follow them on Mastodon as well via a BirdSite mirror. You won’t be able to do it from the larger instances, but if you join a more chill instance (like mine ;)) it should be fine.
  • Evangelize: if you have friends on Twitter, ask them to join as well. Most Mastodon servers have a way to let you send invites to others.

When you start getting the feeling that you are getting overwhelmed, it’s the time to cull down the list. Feel free to unfollow any person or hashtag that you think is too noisy or not really interesting.

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

What is the Mastodon directory?

rglullis ,
@rglullis@communick.news avatar

I mean the list of servers on Mastodon’s main site. I added the link to the original post.

pruwybn ,
@pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Thanks!

hywoid ,

There is an account called Fedi Follows on Mastodon that shares accounts according to their topics. Hope it helps.

cmrn ,

Thank you, that looks like a great place to start!

ttmrichter ,

I joined up before you could subscribe to hashtags, so my approach was:

  1. Read my local instance feed and click on content that interested me.
  2. Checked the users that made the interesting content to see if they had more.
  3. If they did, followed.

Nowadays I would add this step:

  1. Subscribe to hashtags on topics I’m interested in and follow people who regularly contribute good material to them.
funkless ,

I used a site that let’s you follow the same accounts on Masto as you did on Twitter.

CrypticFawn ,
@CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

how did you find people to follow?

Find tags that you like; follow the tags.

Eventually you’ll find people posting in those tags that you end up liking; follow them.

And repeat. =)

valen ,
@valen@lemmy.world avatar

I wrote since stuff to help new Mastodon users: https://babylon4.com/mastodon

FlatFootFox ,
@FlatFootFox@lemmy.world avatar

It helps if you can find a half-dozen people involved in something you like to follow at the start. Other than that, try joining a mid-sized (~1,000-3,000 users) Mastodon server based around a hobby, interest, or social group you’re a part of. Most Mastodon clients allow you to keep a column open for the people you follow as well as the people on the “Local Timeline” who are a part of your server.

It’s a new social network. If you see someone pop up who’s made a pithy post or two, give 'em a follow. If they’re not working out a week later, un-follow them. Don’t feel afraid to follow a ton of people when you first get started to liven up your feed until you find a good circle of folks.

mookulator ,

That’s kind of the problem I think. I was able to find like 2 people there I want to follow. Lemmy is going to be far more successful at displacing its alternative because all the communities you’d want to subscribe to are here.

moitoi ,

You need to follow hashtags but primary groups. You will find groups boosting toots about your topics. It’s the first accounts to follow then you will find others.

It’s not that hard. People have to keep in mind, it’s not Twitter and so it works differently.

Justly0250 ,
@Justly0250@lemdro.id avatar

boosting toots

I don’t think they call it TOOTS anymore.

moitoi ,

I’m a grandpa of mastodon.

Toots despite the proximity with tweet is good for the community aspect.

danielton ,
@danielton@lemmy.world avatar

So… boosting publishes?

Doesn’t seem right.

AustralianSimon ,
@AustralianSimon@lemmy.world avatar

I joined via fosstodon.org much better recommendations

jupiter_rowland ,

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

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Fellas, it’s time to pay respects to Larry the Bird. He was only caught doing what he did best: tweeting.

At least Mastodon doesn’t risk getting bought by a multi billionaire.

SkaveRat ,

and instead of tweeting, people are now x-creting

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

Joke of the century

woshang ,

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

Umbra ,

Apparently this is all part of some grand master plan. Maybe Elon will pull it off???

Acamon ,

Lol

iwan2c ,

ain’t no way

echo64 ,

His master plan sure does seem massively reactionary for a master plan

FIST_FILLET ,
@FIST_FILLET@kbin.social avatar

name a single grand master plan that elon has ever pulled off

gerbler ,

Financial suicide?

zomtecos ,
@zomtecos@feddit.de avatar

Still waiting for Teslas driving from west to east coast completely autonomously. And Elon flying to mars.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

One way ticket to Mars, make it happen!

Umbra ,

Weren't all his companies successful in the end?

julianh ,

The companies he took over after they were were founded?

Umbra ,

Okay? Taking over a company, growing it, and then selling for huge profit is still good business sense.

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

He’s a douchebag and takes too much credit for the engineering that has made them successfull, but SpaceX has delivered some next-level rockets and Tesla has been very successful creating a new market niche and selling a ton of cars

Catch42 ,
@Catch42@kbin.social avatar

Uh, the first one. It's all downhill after that. It's the only one he's ever pulled off. Look at the goals for the master plan part 2 and you'll see that they haven't managed to do a single one, but Elon still went ahead a published a part 3. Why actually meet goals when you can just pretend you've met them by posting new ones, I guess.

AlternatePersonMan ,

I can’t fathom that anybody could be this stupid. Does he have a reason to purposely destroy Twitter?

The decisions he’s making aren’t just bad, they’re the worst possible ones that he could make. As in, he gathered a group of experts and these are the best ways to destroy Twitter that they could think up.

floofloof ,

Some people are suggesting he ran up so much debt buying Twitter that he’s now running it into the ground in order to declare bankruptcy and not have to repay the debt. I don’t know how plausible this is.

gndagreborn ,
@gndagreborn@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder if that would be taken to court if true.

floofloof ,

I imagine it would be hard to prove, because he would never admit it was intentional, and he’d never have to tell anyone else that in order to execute the plan. It can look like a series of blunders either way.

Hiccup ,

Totally could be pulling a Sears/Kmart and an Eddie lampert.

Andjhostet ,

He was paid to tank Twitter.

theneverfox ,

Exactly!

More are more I’ve been thinking - he watches anime, he thinks current social media is incredibly dangerous, and (while he was always a dick in private) he only really showed the current Musk after meeting Trump.

We know musk watches anime - it’s like the zero requiem. First, he becomes a folk hero, a billionaire putting his weight behind important tech for humanity. Then he meets Trump - maybe he realized how dark our prognosis as a species is.

He starts driving away his left-leaning futurist and techy core with bigotry and being a dick. He backs out of a plan to buy Twitter, violates his parole, and makes a big show about trying to get out of it… But what did he actually do besides complain it’s full of bots, then give up?

He walks in with a kitchen sink, drives away anyone who can afford to leave or might resist a stupid order, and settles in.

For months, about every two weeks he’s been doing something to wean users off Twitter, while making a big show of some increasingly obviously dumb ideas. Like seriously, his business is ads - it makes so little sense that he limit users to such low limits - even subscribers could eat through that easily

He lies through his teeth and says it’s working, he’s almost breaking even, that users and advertisers come crawling back… Exactly what u/spez and every other social media guy desperately want to believe - the only thing standing between them and profit is telling their users to suck it

Now he finally admits they’re in terrible shape, making his last fanboys look like idiots, and making himself look not only erratic and out of touch, but like a bad businessman.

To totally parallel the requiem, he needs to topple all the billionaires before staging his death - leaving the world in shape to rebuild, and very wary of the dangers of wealth inequality.

Or at least make us actually unite and change the laws and economic system.

Or maybe he’s just having a midlife crisis, hates Twitter, and is just burning money for the hell of it. And the attention.

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