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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…

FinalBoy1975 ,

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project. The end. The oxymoron here of this story: The winners of the 44 billion Musk payed for it probably don’t care that their creation is being run into the ground while the users of the platform are obviously in an uproar. In the end, the creators and founders, etc. did it for the money, not the cultural impact they would have on the world. Twitter’s former CEO has allowed himself to be interviewed from time to time to say what he thinks Musk is doing wrong, but he doesn’t seem to have any hurt feelings or express any kind of extreme regrets for the company being sold. From what I’ve seen in the news, he’s pretty dry. The drama comes from the user end. This tells me something about how, in the end, it’s just rich people doing business and doing as they please with what they please. It’s kind of sad. Like, let’s say I made something really cool with my own two hands and my creation got turned into something monstrous. I’d be upset. The people who made twitter are happy with their riches. In the end, the outrage and scandal is kind of pointless because it’s just a thing that makes more money for big business rich tech people and it always was just that.

Philolurker ,

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

That’s a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he’s already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

That would explain a lot.

FinalBoy1975 ,

The fact that he did not want to buy it for the price he had to buy it for is enough for me to conclude that he doesn’t give two shits about it. The ones he bought it from don’t give two shits, either. It’s just money. For Musk, money lost. For the former owners of Twitter, money gained. The rest is just blah blah blah to them. This is not so for the users of Twitter. It means much more to them socially than it does to the people who bought it and sold it. This, for me, is fascinating as a social phenomenon. Fascinatingly sad in a lot of ways.

Jakeroxs ,

Just to add in, X.com was something Elon wanted to do all the way back in PayPal days, basically a line/wechat with PayPal abilities.

ttmrichter ,

It’s not his $44 billion, though.

The people who ACTUALLY paid for it are going to have a few words with him, probably, at some point.

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.

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

Invertedouroboros ,

It’s like Elon has read every book with an evil corporation in it and decided to make it his whole ascetic. X corp, sounds like the big bad that some plucky band of YA book protagonists have to team up to take down.

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.

Teal ,

Is he saying we should all X communicate?

JudahBenHur ,

clever

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.

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.

reverendz ,

Anyone recommend a good iPhone app for Mastodon?

atyaz ,

I’ve been using ivory, it’s nice

qooqie ,

I second this, super stable, fresh design, lots of features. I didn’t even need to try a different app it fit everything I wanted

gyrodaddy ,

Ivory is my favorite as long as you don’t mind supporting the developers. But a close second place for me is Ice Cubes.

loaf ,
@loaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

I second Ice Cubes. I would recommend Mammoth as well, but feed loading can be super slow.

The official app loads super fast, but way too many limitations IMHO.

orgrinrt ,

Third recommendation for Ice Cubes here! It’s simply great

Drewsteau ,

I switched to ice cubes from mammoth because of the lack of a trending tab

Audel ,

Ivory is the iOS app I use and absolutely enjoy.

FIST_FILLET ,
@FIST_FILLET@kbin.social avatar

Ice Cubes is great for me, beautiful UI and cute sound effects

azura ,

I personally like Mona.

echoplex21 ,

Gonna go against the grain here and just recommend the default Mastadon app. It’s simple and gets the job done with no Bells and whistles. Not sure there’s much missing

alxhghs ,

Yeah I’m also on the default and not sure what other apps have going for them that make them better

YurkshireLad ,

Another vote for Ice Cubes.

spacedancer ,

I use Tusker and it’s been great so far. More features than the official app, and it’s pretty stable too.

jupiter_rowland ,

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

chrizbie ,
@chrizbie@lemmy.nz avatar

oh that’s the straw?

coldv ,

I guess everyone has their own straw

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If you want greater adoption, especially for Twitter users, then we should be evangelising Misskey and Calckey/Firefish over Mastodon, especially given the feature set more closely mirrors Twitter.

philm ,

Calckey/Firefish

Much more beautiful than mastodon IMHO

Thanks for the info about the other projects.

Kalkaline ,
@Kalkaline@lemmy.one avatar

I just have no idea these platforms are out there or how to get to them from lemmy

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.

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.

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