@9speederailleur entirely predictable. The most predictable thing to follow any GBCW post on any platform are that there will be many posts after it and even if they do vanish, it's usually more of a vacation than a goodbye.
I didn't plan on moving off Twitter, but Musk has been even worse than I expected and I just can't support that doofus by adding to his user stats.
Yes, just rip the band-aid off.
People shouldn't expect Mastodon to replicate the Twitter experience they're losing. Embrace the novelty of a new experience. Try a different style of discussion & give it time.
Even Twitter, vast as it is, gets stale especially as you're locked into patterned interactions by the algorithm & churn of people. It's hard to gel into a true online community.
You can be there for years, but the format forces you to constantly rehash old conversations.
@sysop408 Mastodon has been a lot closer to Twitter than I expected. The recommendation engine isn’t as good and it doesn’t do infinite levels of tweet nesting, but I logged off, set up an account, followed a few dozen people and it feels like I barely missed a beat.
I do miss seeing posts from some of the open source maintainers that I followed on Twitter though.
@tylerlwsmith They have their similarities, but their differences can compound across interactions to produce a significant change in the experience.
It looks like Twitter to me, but doesn't feel like it. Can't say if it's due to the design differences or simply a function of its smaller size. As Mastodon grows, perhaps it'll feel more like Twitter.
It may just be my instance, but I'm getting a more varied mix of topics & people don't seem to be trying to stay on topic as much. I like that.
How did you handle followers who were left behind?
I've been about the arduous task of finding people who have signed onto Mastodon and other platforms.
Today, I was happy to discover Rob Reiner on board here.
He's still on Twitter, so am I. But when the wheels finally fall off that blue bird's Tesla, I will have my home here at newsie.social.
@VehementSack @9speederailleur
I plan to check my account name a few times a year to see if it was usurped. If someone is pretending to be me I will open a zero follower account, report it and post to its tweets that it is not me, and DM my old followers that it is not me, etc.
How did they determine this? Do they count someone as "left" when they deleted their account? If so, then I haven't left either. I stopped posting and marked my tweets private.
I don't want to deactivate my just to let some rando register a new account with my old handle and start posting nazi shit.
Many others have left without announcing their departure. Before I deactivated a large amount of those I followed also left for here.
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