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I find it weird when people suggest Discord or Microblogging as an alternative.
It's such a different format, and it fits a different purpose. I'm on Discord and Mastodon, but I wouldn't try and recreate a subreddit/lemmy community on either of those places
People don't want community. They are fine with scrolling through mind-numbing, recycled content. Reddit has realized years ago that human contributors just create problems, and can easily be replaced by bots, and you still make a billion USD
I am on Mastodon and use it somewhat regularly (mainly out of interest for/to support the fediverse), but I still don't quite "get" it. If I want to fill my feed, I can follow users or hashtags. But following users is weird to me because some of their posts might be interesting to me, but then they post about their breakfast or some random topic I don't care about.
Hashtags are a bit better, but e.g. I follow #berlin, and of course while there's lots of news, info and discussion about the city, I also get many posts e.g. of travellers saying they just arrived in the city or other random stuff.
I guess it's just how microblogging works (never used Twitter so this is my first experience with it), but for me it's all a bit too unfocused. It's probably just a personality thing though.
I mean yeah, what you described is basically twitter, I never got it either. Especially because it came about at a time when Facebook was on top, and you could do all that + have pictures and videos in your profile instead of just the feed - and it had a much larger word limit as well. Twitter has confused since its inception.
I felt the exact same sentiment. Not being able to sort my feed based on “most likes” or “most reposts” didn’t make sense to me. I wanna see top quality content first, not just some rando’s thoughts at the exact moment that I’m online.
Like, it was fine, but it didn’t quite hit the spot.
I also don't get mastodon, but I didn't get Twitter either.
For real. It's weird how common this sentiment is. That one should move to Bsky or Mastodon instead.
I feel like Mastodon is just more well known than Lemmy, which makes sense based on the two userbases
email is also more well known but very few people would ever suggest moving to a fucking mailing list
How many people use mailing lists today?
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