Post AdbguiD9uyB5l34cUq by gyptazy@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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(DIR) Post #AdbaJAYpT21ux9vNyq by rolle@mementomori.social
2024-01-07T14:07:25Z
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People on Threads would rather choose Mastodon over X if they were given only one choice. The scope is small in my poll, but this is the general opinion when following the discourse.#Threads #SocialMedia #X #Mastodon
(DIR) Post #AdbaSEYE07Tdw1xq40 by freemo@qoto.org
2024-01-07T14:27:28Z
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@rolle i suspect most of your friends on threads come from the fedi no?
(DIR) Post #AdbguiD9uyB5l34cUq by gyptazy@mastodon.bsd.cafe
2024-01-07T15:29:18Z
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@rolle Unfortunately, I cannot agree with this, especially with regard to a possible trend. I think this highly depends on each users follower base. While this might apply to your or my one this will probably not apply to casual users or even influencers ones.For us within our tech circle the follower base has the same interests and thinks in the more or less same way but when having a look at the casual users they do not even know or understand what ActivityPub, Fediverse or Mastodon is.Fediverse is (unfortunately) still a mess. People google for "Fediverse" and will find within the first entries a documentation about the Fediverse or services like Lemmy, Mastodon, Pleroma, diaspora etc. which directly leads to a "wtf" moment for a non tech user - the user is lost in this moment. This was the experience for him. If the user still wants to take a try, he needs to understand, that this is a federated service. But how can he find an instance, now? Some first match instances even do not even offer sign ups anymore...If a user even solves this it comes to a (IMHO) bad UI which is providing too many information and is just unusable. I still think without your birdUI I would not use a Mastodon instance anymore. The next thing is to find interesting things.If I try to find by the default search something regarding the Tesla hashtag, I tells me that there were just two profiles within the last two days using this. Oh, crap!Okay, let's get back to the common user base of a services. It's a chicken egg problem, you get users by providing content, but the users must create the content. This is where Influencers step in - they provide the most common content on X or even Instagram (even we tech related people do not understand this), but this is how they gain followers and users. But whey are they doing this? Because they're getting paid in two ways:- Ads for the products they're presenting- For post impressions of their content from the platformLet's just imagine I would have 100.000 followers here on Mastodon, the instance I'm hosted on wouldn't pay me any money which means that there is no need to post anything or to put efforts into it without any monetarizations. At this time we come back to "free", "open", "decentralised" mind.Where we can also see this when we just compare the messenger Signal VS WhatsApp...Sorry, just my 2 cents on the Sunday and also a big thanks for your BirdUI which is the only reason I can use Mastodon :)
(DIR) Post #AdbguirZUiVJmNytUG by rolle@mementomori.social
2024-01-07T15:38:19Z
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@gyptazy Wow that's a lot on this small observation about Threads users. What can't you agree with specifically? That Threads users are not towards Mastodon rather than X? I see most of the folks there have left X and those who are excited about Threads have no desire to go back. But of course there are variables and people are different, I'm just stating my observations in my own bubble.I'm not here to state people should move over Mastodon, I just like the fact those who have replied don't prefer X.As a tech person I have never indicated everyone should use the platform they do not want to, nor I have ever indicated Mastodon is the only choice. I'm a techie and I understand normal people, after all I work for them every day. I'm accustomed to speaking in layman's terms about the web and difficult subjects. Non-techies should not use the Fediverse and we should not push them. But if they hear about it and like it, all the better.Nowadays I'm just linking https://mementomori.social and don't say no more if not asked. 👍 With Fediverse we are definitely not there yet where we could "embrace the public", but I'm I believe in these two arguments:- We don't have to please everyone- We are here to make this better and better, I for one can be involved in Mastodond development and know it WILL get better each day"I still think without your birdUI I would not use a Mastodon instance anymore.", wow, this is new, I'm flattered. Thanks for using Bird UI, glad you like it.
(DIR) Post #AdbgujbIkh5G4DNPlY by verita84_uwu@poster.place
2024-01-07T15:40:14.297Z
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@rolle@mementomori.social @gyptazy@mastodon.bsd.cafe Can you say nigger on threads and mastodon?