Mike Masnick ✅Feb 8, 2023

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

Mastodon Continues to Lose Users

Usage of Mastodon has dwindled over the past two months, with monthly active users plummeting to less than 1.4 million after hitting a peak of 2.5 million in December.

Thurrott.com
Show threadwhetstoneFeb 8, 2023
@mmasnick Definitely more interaction here, and it’s a lively place! It does feel like some people who are “good at” Twitter are not “good at” Mastodon and perceive that as a defect in the latter platform.
Show threadCameron PalmerFeb 8, 2023

@whetstone @mmasnick it is about the timeline. The timeline being strictly linear, lacking quote retweets, and threads are basic functional issues. The lack of algorithmic timeline support being the biggest failing. Not everyone wants to curate dozens of Follows, in fact, I'll go out on a limb and say, most people don't and won't do that.

Mastodon could have both the linear and algorithmic timelines presented and be a better Twitter while maintaining a better overall vibe.

Show threadKristoffer LawsonFeb 8, 2023
@palmerc @whetstone @mmasnick one could argue that #Mastodon already has an algorithmic timeline. The trending posts (it's where I found this discussion).
Show threadJohn Van Ham
@Setok @palmerc @whetstone @mmasnick just chiming in to say that I too found this thread on the trending posts feed. Personally, having an algorithm by default decide what I want to view is one of the reasons I haven’t engaged on Twitter for a very long time. Here, you can also on some clients like fedistar follow local feeds of different instances which works great IMHO. And toots are all chronological so I’m not seeing ‘fresh’ posts from days ago that are no longer relevant.
Feb 8, 2023 at 2:14pmWeb
Show threadKristoffer LawsonFeb 8, 2023
@jvh @palmerc @whetstone @mmasnick I concur. My Twitter use steadily declined with the prominence of the For You feed and ads. I personally like the stream feed. Interesting things tend to get boosted anyway.