Mastodon

“The folks in it for the love of the game, not because it pays well or because they're chasing the latest trends.”

“On Mastodon, I have similar freedoms, and you can opt into bridging ATProto with ActivityPub through Bridgy Fed.”

“Mastodon instances would be a drop-in replacement, no? Federated instances and as a bonus, it solves the biggest problem of new users not knowing which server to join.”

“the first thing the fediverse sites like mastodon or Lemmy try to do when you search for them on Google is get you into a server”

“good places to start is here, gopher/gemini, mailinglists, usenet, irc, webrings/blogs, mastodon/pleroma instance etc.”

“Lots of "normal" users have already migrated away from Twitter to e.g. Mastodon, so it's not clear why this isn't reasonable for Facebook.”

“mastodon is too slow/heavy and has a mod problem that is intolerable without a better story about user mobility between servers”

“Conversations are simply broken. If you communicate at all in a decentralized way, you will interact with threads where you do not see whole branches of the conversation.”

“meaningfully decentralized and there is no single party that could pull the rug from beneath the whole network”

“Nobody wants to waste their time host your own, moving from a rouge instance, trying to search for users to follow and the worst one: Choosing which instance to sign up to.”

“Your instance shuts down? All your posts are gone. I naively assumed I could just move them to a new instance and found out the hard way.”

“You friend people and what you get is a cronological feed. No algorithm bullshit, no gamification, no adverts snuck in.”

“Mastodon seems to solve the problems for those that use it. It's a genuine social network that people use to talk to each other and form real communites.”

“a solid majority of the best users have either left or simulpost their content on other platforms like Mastadon and Bluesky”

“The former simply won't show you anything you didn't explicitly subscribe to, and there's no hidden ranking system.”

“since I switched to Pixelfed and Mastodon, I've found that I just don't spend as much time on social media as I used to”

“The TL;DR of the problem with Mastodon is that you basically need to pin your identity to what is essentially a small internet community/forum”

“There's more ROI posting there, even ignoring the fact that BlueSky and Mastodon are projects clearly more aligned with internet freedom than X is.”

“Mastodon/ActivityPub has a lot more to offer than mastodon.social but getting to that also means leaving the Twitter look and feel”

“I tend to use Mastodon which makes finding a post's popularity a click away, and so emphasises posting for interest instead of outrage.”

“This is already a problem with things like Mastodon - as soon as you subscribe to some more "spammy" accounts such as news outlets, all the other content is drowned out.”

“You are not stuck on that server, if you find out that it's not quite the right fit, you can move to another server.”

“The real problem is how the fediverse is going to survive the onslaught of laws related to social media age verification, data retention, data privacy”

“The Explore feed on my instance is freakin' awesome and full of a constant stream of interesting and enjoyable posts by cool people.”

“Masto specifically is also a Twitter not Facebook replacement, with everyone soliloquizing past each other rather than holding a genuine conversation.”

“Personally I think it's pretty amazing that an open source project, with no VC money or marketing department or big corporate tie in”

“Mastodon is a success because it hosts a community and because it represents a validation of the model of decentralized federated social media.”

“Well Mastodon would make the most sense. They can run their own server with their own moderation policies while still federating with the broader network.”

“If you migrated to a fediverse instance with longer post length limits, you could use that to actually blog/post while mobile”

“I feel Mastodon is a nicer place these days because the worst tranche of Mastodonsters seemed to have migrated to Bluesky.”

“my time with Mastodon has revealed that even decentralized networks are just as full of outrage-centric entertainment and ragebait as the main networks”

“It's like a compromise between forums and twitter, and there are some great smaller communities out there.”

“Mastodon's individual server model, like email's, is better PRECISELY because each node is a point of "failure."”

“Wikipedia and Mastodon have their problems, but at least there's not an obvious need for them to exploit their users to make money.”

“the Mastodon app is proudly the first app ever to both support FCM push notifications, and be 100% open-source”

“Mastodon discoverability is almost exactly the same as on twitter, except without the useless suggestions that I have to ignore at the start.”

“Mastodon reminds me a lot more of those old-school internet hangout spaces, like IRC channels and web forums”

“the most intellectually consistent and sincere adherence to FOSS, privacy, and decentralization of any major social media project”

“it just feels calmer, where you can follow neat and quirky people who aren't posting like they're addicted to it”

“federation is better than centralization when it can be made to work in practical terms, and Mastodon works”