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Mastodon has been working really well for me once I followed people. Connect well with Lemmy as well which I like. Hopefully more “official” accounts come in.
Been using Mastodon since 2018 and it's brutally frustrating waiting for people to move to it.
It's a really stable platform, and the various instance communities are pretty great.
But I have no fuckin clue why it's not growing in adoption by Internet Normans.
Although, after the rate limiting issue, a whole shitload of people have signed up, so it's promising.
Normies hate that Linuxy feel. I'm not hugely fond of the bare metal feel of federated social networks myself, and I've been doing the computer thing for... uh, when was the VIC-20 released again? Don't underestimate the persuasive power of a friendly interface.
I dunno, between elk.zone or trunks.social, I don't find the interface all that bad.
I've been in Mastodon for a few months and Bluesky for a few days, and Bluesky just blows it out of the water as a twitter replacement. Easier technically, a lot more of the people I follow are on there, people are easier to find, and most importantly the algorithm encourages rather than discourages engagement.
I find there's no "discouraging". Rather it's just posts. The "engagement" aspect of Twitter and modern social media is imo the one thing that's most important to leave behind. It's not healthy.
Do you use the official app or is there a 3rd party app that's better? I saw they updated the official one and was thinking about jumping in since I'm liking Lemmy.
Both the official and Ice Cubes work pretty well for me. I was in no way a power user for Twitter though. But after following the people I really wanted to the feed seemed fairly curated to me. Reminded me of the very early days of Twitter :)