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usrn · 2022-05-20 16:38:01

Mastodon is great. I tried Twitter the other week and it feels so much worse, like crappy RSS for celebrity gossip instead of a discussion platform.

immibis | karma 2313 | avg karma 0.88 · | 2023-11-28 06:29:43

Mastodon is called an alternative to Twitter.

dcj4 | karma -2 | avg karma -0.07 · | 2022-11-27 15:42:25

Twitter is a great Mastodon alternative.

fturco | karma 5 | avg karma 0.21 · | 2018-07-14 16:52:13+00:00

Mastodon instead of Twitter.

StavrosK | karma 1 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2019-08-14 20:15:35+00:00

Mastodon is great, and open. I like the community there more than Twitter's.

busssard | karma 41 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2022-12-19 04:24:53

Mastodon is much nicer than twitter ;)

microcolonel | karma 4436 | avg karma 0.84 · | 2018-12-19 15:46:43

I've been using Mastodon. In its current form it's about good enough to replace Twitter (apart from the obvious network effects).

KenArrari | karma 166 | avg karma 1.46 · | 2022-11-30 08:37:03

Have yet to see anything really appealing about mastodon. Don't think I really liked Twitter either except for the fact that everyone is on it already.

sexy_panda | karma 111 | avg karma 1.85 · | 2022-09-02 23:35:27

I agree. Mastodon is more fun to use than Twitter.

ptato | karma 219 | avg karma 2.19 · | 2022-03-11 02:30:41

I don't know anyone who uses Mastodon, and whenever I've tried it every instance seems barren. I would love to ditch Twitter though.

smoldesu | karma 10042 | avg karma 1.14 · | 2022-11-19 09:18:49

I like Mastodon. Twitter is a black-hole of influencers and hot-stuff personalities trying to eke out a follower or advertising dime. Mastodon is more focused on enriching interaction (rather than infinite scrolling) and it achieves this with a chronological timeline by-default, with zero random 'recommended' content. It sucks all of the ego-driven nastiness out of the equation and lets you return to a comfortable feed.

albertgoeswoof | karma 5158 | avg karma 4.83 · | 2018-08-05 13:43:53+00:00

Mastodon is basically like Twitter was 8 years ago. Except it’s also a really cool tech platform as well.

runyor | karma -4 | avg karma -0.19 · | 2019-02-05 12:48:13+00:00

Mastodon is the currently most hippest open source alternative to Twitter. Don't know many of the details tho.

mark_l_watson | karma 19367 | avg karma 2.49 · | 2022-04-25 09:13:06

I like Mastodon but it is a different experience than Twitter. I follow non-famous people with my interests on Mastodon and famous tech people with my interests on Twitter. It is almost like the two services are complementary.

AsyncAwait | karma 7526 | avg karma 3.3 · | 2019-01-20 14:23:58+00:00

I really can't recommend Mastodon highly enough.

The interactions on there are just so much more organic than on Twitter. You get to actually have discussions with people, instead of aiming for as much snark as possible.

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jasong7234 | karma 1 | avg karma 1.0 · | 2023-04-12 12:57:37

How is Mastodon? Does it rival Twitter in terms of usefulness?

usrn | karma 590 | avg karma 0.6 · | 2022-05-03 09:44:10

IMO: Mastodon is already a great knock-off Twitter. There's much more conversations between peers compared to Twitter which feels like celebrity RSS with a comment section.

spacedcowboy | karma 2110 | avg karma 3.39 · | 2023-02-14 22:54:31

Twitter ? Is that like Mastodon ?

m3kw9 | karma 3357 | avg karma 0.75 · | 2023-01-15 16:22:49

Can’t think of mastodon as a competitor to twitter. I gave it a shot and it feels like discord for twitter.

dom96 | karma 6422 | avg karma 3.49 · | 2023-06-15 18:04:25

Mastodon is more of a Twitter replacement, no?