I tried mastodon but it’s not really the sort of thing I use even when there are accounts for me to follow. Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird, you can always tell when someone replies to a post from mastodon because the formats don’t link very well.
And the culture is just different. It’s like…imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they’re barging in all loud and boorish like “HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG”
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don’t want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as “I never got twitter”, but it does precisely 0 for me.
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It’s all about the topic.
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the “restrictions” like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
I tried mastodon but it’s not really the sort of thing I use even when there are accounts for me to follow. Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird, you can always tell when someone replies to a post from mastodon because the formats don’t link very well.
And the culture is just different. It’s like…imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they’re barging in all loud and boorish like “HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG”
I think there is a real divide on the internet between those who prefer longer format conversations around posting reposts, and just, micro logged, idk, I don’t want to be derogatory, but like, micro content?
I just throw it up as “I never got twitter”, but it does precisely 0 for me.
I use both and I agree. I have a different mindset on mastodon, there I care more about who is saying something than what they say. I have a small group of people I care about. On lemmy/piefed I care about what someone says but not who they are. It’s all about the topic.
When people started to move over from twitter, the culture changed significantly. People treat mastodon like twitter not knowing all the “restrictions” like char count are things that can be adjusted in admin.
The character limit is hardcoded in two places. They could, and should make it a setting, or just eliminate it.