Like I get there are several reasons people remain. It just feels kinda weird to listen to a podcaster or youtuber go off on twittter, yet they still use twitter exclusively.

I've just learned to follow smaller accounts with similar interest. As a celebrity follow machine, it's awful because nobody is really on there officially except for a handful of people.

Hashtags are much more important on Masto too cause without an algorithm, its one of the only ways your posts are visible to others. I find with the right combo of tags though, I can get a decent amount of interaction.

There was a good solid week where most of my attention was focused on Mastodon. I guess it all depends on what you were originally using twitter for. I guess it clicked for me cause I barely used twitter to begin with.

Maybe try just browsing the local feed or looking up hashtags of things you like, might help you find new people

Maybe a monthly/quarterly coordinated push to get people to migrate would be more effective at making it push through, rather than tiny blips of "Hey, maybe Mastodon?" on occasion.

And then whenever people inevitably try it and decide not to stay, as I did, make sure to pick up on any feedback and take it seriously. Maybe after a year it'll be a genuinely desirable alternative.

I personally think it's a messy pile of junk.

Beep boop, I'm a bot or some shit like that.

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It IS too complicated tho. I consider myself pretty techy, but my Linux experience, just trying to do basic things like downloading a program, became a long chain of troubleshooting and installations of dependecies and searching online for answers.

Sadly, it got me REAL turned off Linux. I love the concept of it, but at the end of the day, I just want something that works.

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I've got a dual boot currently, with windows exclusively for gaming and ubuntu for everything else. Would love to fully switch to linux, but some games still don't work on it, and then there's gamepass of course, which likely never will.

I mean for people who aren't influencers it doesn't make much sense. For influencers, even though some people hate twitter or whatever its called now it is the place with one of the largest presences/userbases around. Many influencers use that to their advantage to grow their own userbase. Some influencers can move over and maybe convert some of their audiences over but realistically you need a very big player to do it beforehand.

As a former redditor, fair.

It's a lot easier when it's a seamless transition vs a new platform. Also, it seems like the usage took a nosedive.

Too many people are just so basic they won't even consider trying anything but "mainstream". If Lemmy or Mastodon became mainstream platforms, you can bet they would come in masses because "there's where everyone's at."

Twitter is just furry porn now.

Formerly known as Calckey. Twitter replacement similarly to Mastodon. Also uses ActivityPub.

Using it rn, it's forked from Misskey and is in alpha rn

It feels like mastodon but they sprinkled in a few telegram features tbh.

Much better than mastodon in terms of user experience tho

Do what I did, make some new friends on mastodon. Theres a ton of great people on there :3

I only use twitter through nitter. I just want these people to mirror their shit to an RSS feed.

Consider a custom client like Quacker if you only lurk.

Artists are the only thing I miss. Yes, I did already find a bunch of new ones on mastodon, but it's still not nearly enough.

And then you have people on here, which are also idiots but with a superiority complex!

Jack Dorsey's new project. Essentially a new Twitter.

A worse version of ActivityPub

It's the fediverse Lite (doesn't work with ActivityPub, it's its own protocol). It's also Twitter Lite (created by the founder of Twitter, now known as X). It's the worst of both worlds.

Bluesky started out being owned by Twitter (pre Musk), but became a completely separate company (also pre Musk). Somewhat like Mastadon, it is intended to be decentralized. It’s still in beta, so it’s not freely open to the public yet - you have to get an invitation from someone who already uses it.

How do they plan to make money? “We’ll be publishing a blog post on our monetization plans in a few weeks, and we’ll share more then” according to Emily Liu, part of the Bluesky team.

https://blueskyweb.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_Social

Discoverability of content above average? On Twitter? An I doing something wrong? The only time I end up on Twitter is when someone links to it. Following or even searching in comments is essentially not possible.

Well it's not like the Youtube comment section is where I would expect anyone to safely interact.

*requires overcoming inertia.

AFAICT it used to be called Calckey

I see ads have made their way to lemmy.

Go back to Twitter fucking spam bot!