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0 pointssolarkraft2y ago0 comments

> After trying Mastodon for a few months, it's certainly not it.

Why?

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babl-yc2y ago· 6 in thread

From my experience: - Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content - Sign-up process isn't obvious due to decentralization - Likes, profiles sometimes had bugs or required extra clicks if from other servers - Few people I follow migrated from Twitter, and most have since stopped posting due to lack of engagement

mrweasel2y ago

> Feed was purely chronological (no algorithmic feed) so I missed a lot of content

People normally have the reverse complaint, that the algorithm makes them miss content.

Yizahi2y ago

People (tech inclined and looking for a forum platform) want chronological feed, yes. But they want it usable too. Mastodon doesn't have any categorization/classification/tags tools, everyting is dumped into a single gigantic realtime thread, and if you blink you miss the post and its gone forever. I tried Mastodon once, when it was just starting out and abandoned after playing around for a while. It's simply unusable, compared to any forum or reddit. Or even to a Facebook, with it's horrible UI. At least FB has groups and pages which kinda work like a bad crutch for categorization. Mastodon is lacking any of that.

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Marazan2y ago

The majority of people who use Twitter use the algorithmic feed.

HackerNews posters are not the typical Twitter users.

(Just to be clear I personally hate the algorithmic feed but there are lots of use cases for it that just don't align with my Twitter usage)

solarkraftOP2y ago

I agree about the algorithm. People wanting a strictly chronological timeline seem to largely be a very particular tech crowd.

I don't personally notice a lack of engagement. Maybe not everyone migrated, but I feel like the most important people have.

mjhagen2y ago

The pure chronologic feed is why I used Tweetbot and is why I'm on Mastodon.

dbbk2y ago

Twitter has had a chronological feed for years

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