〽️ɪɢᴜᴇʟ Nov 24, 2022

Mastodon was originally built to be a tool for conversations, not a broadcasting tool.

Twitter mostly is a broadcasting tool (build your own audience/echo chamber) and it looks like people are now missing some of these features in Mastodon.

What are your thoughts?

Show threadJay FeyNov 24, 2022

@bitbraindev Moving here is like re-creating an actual social network of people. I'm not "posting" into a blank void. I'm writing words to people, and for the most part they respond rather than just third-party commenters. So yeah... it works!

I think some of the people moving over are trying to figure out what the fediverse is good for. The only thing I really "miss" so far is the lack of freeform searching (I'll cope), and I haven't figured out how to read a federated site's local timeline (pretty sure it's possible).

Show thread〽️ɪɢᴜᴇʟ 
@shenea from what I read so far, free-form search is not implemented by design, to avoid doxxing and people being targeted/harassed by others.
Nov 24, 2022 at 6:00amWeb
Show threadJay FeyNov 24, 2022
@bitbraindev yeah, I even think I approve. I just used it *a lot* over on the other side and still miss it in a very self-centered way. Especially when I'm looking for a particular person and don't necessarily know their userid. Creating hashtags for everything isn't a core competency of mine yet.