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Asking genuinely: do people still use Mastodon? It boomed briefly when Musky took twitter but for whatever reason, people decided to go to the data harvesting, ad filled blue sky. I never got either of them but have been recently thinking of mastodon but assumed people don’t still use it.
Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.
Oh wow. That’s great to hear! I have, since commenting, set up an account myself. App seems a little bit buggy but, I don’t plan on being on it a lot. I appreciate the interesting feedback from you and the others who took the time to reply.
The only issue I have with mastodon is the federation gets a bit janky (so does Lemmy tbh) but it's more noticeable on mastodon. My main account is on autistics.life, which is federated with most instances except threads and the maga types, but very often I can't see images on mastodon.social posts via my main account. In fact I can't even see a lot of my older mastodon.social posts via my main account without viewing the post via my alt account and then account switching.
I've seen people say to avoid using mastodon.social as your main account.
I use the Tusky app, but it has a tendency to crash, especially when typing hash tags.
I never really even thought to research that much. I scanned the different instances. I joined into privacysafe.social - it seemed fine. Being that I have only been on it for a few hours and have only followed 9 accounts, I can’t say I’ve noticed many issues regarding my feed at this point. Although I wish I could organize my feed by newest first. It doesn’t seem to be that way by default. I have just had a couple minor bugs with profile pages loading strangely.
according to https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1122722/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260222 it's the most popular Fediverse platform by far.
Too bad it's not interoperable with lemmy. It would be cool if their accounts could see a link or crosspost to a post here, pop over and read it from their interface, comment, whatever.
@hector what where am i
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but in case it's not, you very much can read and post to Lemmy via a mastodon account.
I haven't seen any crossover and I've been on here half of the winter.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Lemmy
Yes. Every single day, we see hundreds, if not thousands of posts.
I briefly tried mastadon. I don't like the format, it's a twitter basically, the federation is a plus, but the entire thing is a popularity contest. Almost all engagement is driven by those with large follower counts, 99 percent of posts are seen by almost no one.
Which is ok if you want to build a following, but for your everyday user, reddit or lemmy is more egalitarian, your posts, and your comments, can be considered on their own merit regardless of your follower count.
You need to use hashtags on mastodon, otherwise nobody will be able to find you!
Scientists and mathematicians do. The rest will follow when bluesky's monetisation strategy becomes too unbearable
gotta find loads of interesting accounts & hashtags, to basically tailor your feed manually, then it can feel very lively. I follow 500 accounts and it has given pretty unique feed compared to bluesky.
I love it. There are very few arseholes on it.
I do, but almost no-one else I'd want to follow does, which makes it feel pointless at the moment. Quite a few 'celebrities' (for want of a better word) seem to have dormant accounts. One of the few people I know who is posting regularly is Bernie Sanders.
Yea, but it's growth is limited. People seem incapable of using a platform if there isn't an algorithm telling them what to look at.