> The correct way to use Mastodon is to follow hashtags, not people, and use lots of hashtags in your posts and comments so other people can find them.
Imagine having to explain how to use a social network ‘correctly’ to attempt to convince users on other social networks to make the move.
> Xitter is a lonely place compared to Mastodon w/hashtags.
How many daily active users are on Mastodon compared to Twitter / X right now?
> joining an instance with a large user count has all of the same issues as Twitter with more drawbacks in the UX
I'm on mastodon.social, which is the bigger one, and my posts there have way more likes, shares and replies than on Twitter, where I have more followers but seems like I'm just talking to the void.
>When I go on Mastodon, half the posts there are bitching about 'how bad' X is.
Have you tried to follow different people? Wouldn't that solve this issue since 100% of mastodon posts in your feed are people you follow (unlike on twitter that has ads and such).
What would be more interesting as a number is active users.
For example, I've got an account at mastodon.social, but last time I used it is over a month ago and before that there had been several months of inactivity.
When I last looked at my friend list and follower list on mastodon it seemed like most people treated mastodon like that.
> Yes, you're more or less correct. However, as someone who ditched Twitter for Mastodon, I don't miss Twitter. There's a vibrant community on Mastodon and you'll feel right at home.
I tried to quit twitter for Mastodon (because it felt more like an open effort than a facebook-esque megacorp) but I was immediately confused by the distributed thing. I thought it was going to be distributed in terms of how it operated, not in terms of the actual social networks being more or less separated. I understood I could follow people from other instances, but only if the instance was somehow connected to the other instance. This confused me even more. How do I pick an instance without ever running into the risk that interesting person X joins in the future and doesn't pick an instance disconnected from the group of instances I'm in?
Basically I just use twitter for news: I follow some big names and organizations and just read from the firehose of news coming out. I probably have a lower than 1/10000 read to write ratio.
Am I trying to use Mastodon like Twitter in a way it wasn't designed for?
> When I go on Mastodon, half the posts there are bitching about 'how bad' X is. The engagement on posts is extremely poor as well. No one replies to anything.
That's not my experience at all. Who are you following?
In my niche, Apple platform software development, the community has almost entirely migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, and it's now as active and thriving as ever.
IMO the Mastodon experience is even better than the Twitter experience was, because there are a lot fewer random trolls on Mastodon.
My little niche was the reason I originally joined Twitter back in 2008, so frankly, I don't really miss the millions of other people. I was never interested in following celebrities.
> "I do not want to believe Mastodon is successful, since it hurts my view."
What? I like Mastodon, it just doesn't have any people from the circles I follow on Twitter. I don't think the average user (who I was talking about btw) who follows mainstream celebrities does either.
Anyway I didn't bother reading the rest of your post, seems like you're coming from a place of anger.
Because the common person expects content and content creators to be surfaced for them. Which Mastodon instance provides this for the larger fediverse?
> The only thing the fediverse lacks that Twitter really provided was the starfucking celebrity culture.
Well, that and the other millions of regular people that are just hanging out and posting on Twitter. I'd love to see them come to Mastodon but they have no incentive.
How many of those are human?
> just hundreds on Mastodon
Whereas those are most probably actual people.
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