anubis2814@theexplorographer @fiercemilder Most people find effort on the internet to be not worth their time so they would happily stick with what they know. If that weren't the case tons more people would have come over here sooner.
The Doctor@anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder All it would take is cloning the birbsite UI precisely.
mc.fly@drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder I think its even for a lot of people on Mastodon not clear that Mastodon concept wise is not a replacement for Twitter.
johnaldis@mcfly @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder I am one of these people. Mastodon seems pretty much a drop-in replacement for Twitter to me in terms of how I use it (follow what your friends and various notable people are up to, have interesting discussions), with the added bonus of having less alt-right trolls. Am I using it wrong? Was I using Twitter wrong?
@johnaldis @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder
There's a lot of answers to that. Obviously mastodon has a differnet culture but there are also technical differences.
First of all Like and Retoot work a bit more intutitively like they are on twitter.
Over there they were important to tell the algorythm that it should show this post more to others and better in their timeline whereas in mastodon they work in the way how its looks 1/
@johnaldis @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder
so a like is (only) telling the poster you liked his post.
A boost is to push the visibility. That is important as it pushes the post more often in timelines and over different server borders into the different server timelines.
Its way more important than on twitter. 2/
@johnaldis @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder Then there's the features that did not exist on twitter (and new people tend to not use).
The content warning like in this post is to shield political and other discussions away from people that are (potentially) not interested. I often use it also as headline.
Its asked for for twitter, trump, nudity, violence or otherwise controversal topics. 3/
The content warning like in this post is to shield political and other discussions away from people that are (potentially) not interested. I often use it also as headline.
Its asked for for twitter, trump, nudity, violence or otherwise controversal topics. 3/
@johnaldis @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder Then there's the image alternative text. You will notice that people ask that you give an alternative text for images being posted that people with screenreaders can get an idea what the image shows (and maybe get through the hassle to increase the picture or contrast or else to make it maybe visible to them). 4/
@mcfly @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder That’s also a feature of Twitter (and I had the reminder set so that I always remembered to add it). I realise the community is more keenly aware of the need for it here, but in my use I don’t think that’s a difference. Of the options I originally suggested, I think we’re converging on “I used Twitter wrong/weird”.
@mcfly @drwho @anubis2814 @theexplorographer @fiercemilder Actually, having just tried posting an image for the first time, I can’t work out how to add specific alt-text in the Mastodon client—there’s a reminder to describe the image but no control to add it… is that a missing feature of the client, or my server, or the protocol as a whole? (Or am I just missing it?)
@johnaldis Are you using the web client?
@mcfly No, the native iOS app (specifically, the one called “Mastodon”).
@johnaldis sorry don't know that one.
On the Android it's pressing on the lower half of the picture. I think there are alternative apps though