Braw ☕🏳️🌈 (@brawaru@mstdn.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 04:22:52
Quite saddening thinking of the fact that Mastodon is going to stay the Linux of the operating systems, Firefox of the web browsers. I don't blame Mastodon for that, and frankly these things that I mentioned are good to have, it's just the conditions and the way society is, that I don't see Mastodon being anything more. People couldn't care less about values Mastodon is built with, and they rather endure malpractices than give up on the convenience.
Braw ☕🏳️🌈 (@brawaru@mstdn.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 04:42:58
@Gargron I've been reading a lot of what different people (especially people of influence) been saying about Mastodon, and checked on Bluesky, and, that's the conclusion I come to. Mastodon seems to have failed to capture the two waves of Twitter escapees. Twitter somehow still exists and many don't think of leaving. Bluesky is growing and it feels much lively than Mastodon, and resonates with a lot of people leaving Twitter. So ugh, things are looking kinda bleak, but that's my perspective.
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 04:48:22
@brawaru How lively something is depends on the people you follow, doesn't it?
Braw ☕🏳️🌈 (@brawaru@mstdn.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 04:57:05
@Gargron on Bluesky and on Twitter, no, thanks to their fancy algorithms, you just go to Discover and find all the cool thighs, the closest we got to this here is with Explore. Of many people I listened to, many don't want to bother with looking for follows, and even if they do, the federation aspect was really getting in the way, like dealing with URLs is hard, some servers don't federate w/ each other, profiles being empty because no backfilling, etc.
Eugen Rochko (@Gargron@mastodon.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 05:06:42
@brawaru Explore may feel slower because the score decay is set to pretty long, so older items stay on top longer. Anyway, Mastodon is the choice for serious journalists, scientists, and governments. We've had our vape ape phase in 2018. If I gave up every time somebody called Mastodon dead in the water we never would've gotten here 🙂
Braw ☕🏳️🌈 (@brawaru@mstdn.social)
Föderation EN Mi 13.09.2023 05:19:35
@Gargron please don't give up!! Sorry if it sounded like I'm saying that Masto is ‘dead’, it's not at all, I think it very much secured its niche and I love it here 
I just tried to express is my sadness that we can't fulfill the needs of many regular casual people. Like my friends or their friends are probably going to be on Bluesky if Twitter explodes, rather than Mastodon, because it's more convenient to them for reasons above, that's what I find sad, because Bsky got bad vibes