I wish more people would choose to switch from Twitter to Mastodon. Instead most of them are signing up for a Facebook owned app. 🤦
I don't. Most of the people on Mastodon seem pretty cool, and honestly I would rather not see half the people I see on twitter.
I never used Twitter but after using Lemmy I fell in love with the Fediverse and created a Mastodon account.
I started following accounts that were on my RSS feed and I’m currently using Mastodon as an RSS on steroids. I may use it more in the future but for now it’s a good start.
I get it, but I've not really managed to get into Mastodon myself. I'm really liking Lemmy so far and have found a lot of great content, but even though I signed up for a mastodon account a loooong time ago I can't seem to get into it? Any tips for finding decent content?
Maybe it's just the type of platform. I've never gotten into twitter either.
Lets hope it keeps going up! Long live the fediverse
Indeed, Twitter and Threads are both awful. Just in different ways.
I would be really curious where this data is coming from. https://mastodon-analytics.com shows a very different userbase, which might be due to different definitions of "active", but what seems really fishy is the 72% increase. What timespan are we looking at here? 72% since 2021?
I swear it hit 2M last year as well, people just stopped using it.
That’s probably true, it seems to grow and shrink with Twitter controversies.
Elon makes a scene, people switch, find out the celebrities they follow aren't on Mastodon, stop using it. Repeat.
I was there the first time. It feels different now - people are contributing and having discussions. Certainly a better quality of discourse than any other social media I've used.
I don't trust any reported numbers, I wouldn't trust watching the tick go up automatically, all the Mastodon servers are being flooded by bots all the time now, the admins are doing yeomans work blocking and cleaning, but real user numbers are impossible to come by.
I just know, I'm much happier not supporting Spez, Zuck, or Musk, and leave it at that, anyone else wants to join, they're welcome. Except Nazis, fuck Nazis.
nice!
How's the content on Masterdon compared to say Lemmy/kbin? Can always add a new site to my daily doom scrolling, but is it just a collection of people complaining about the smallest slight like on Twitter?
It's more like Twitter. Mastodon is a microblogging platform (people complaining about the smallest slight).
people complaining about the smallest slight
How is this different from here or reddit?
Also some FOSS projects and some content creators use it to spread announcement
And NASA posts a lot of astronomy pictures with #astromigration
Some of the "popular twitterers" are also on Mastodon, like @georgetakei@universeodon.com , @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk (less activity), @neilhimself@mastodon.social
I actually applaud the internet splitting up again, the good old times!
I use it for chatting about game dev and fibre crafts mostly, plus live convos around big events like the Super Bowl or Eurovision. Not sure what it's like for other topics but it's plenty active in those! Even randomly ran into someone irl from the #Eurovision feed, that was pretty fun :D
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Mastodon needs a way of automatically populating your feed for new users, like the "All" button does here on Lemmy if your instance has done the work.
I consider myself somewhat technology literate and I got frustrated/bored after trying on my phone to find popular accounts elsewhere to follow on the smaller instance I signed up on. Still stuck with an empty feed. New users don't stand a chance.
This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.
And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.
I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There's even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can't be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.
But it wasn't designed this way for whatever reason, i'm sure there's good reasons but it's hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i'm not logged in, even though this "place" is still on Lemmy.
How do they measure “active” users? I assume that just having an account doesn’t quite count you as active.
