Mike RoseMar 28, 2023
Checking in here again because of Elon. Man, I really wish Mastodon had happened. Cannot stand Twitter right now
Show threadMike Rose

Haha, listen. I was a HUGE advocate for Mastodon. I wanted nothing more than for this place to happen

But come on, it hasn’t. It’s genuinely amazing that people have found nice communities etc on here, I’m jealous!

But no, it hasn’t happened. And unfortunately, the setup of Mastodon (servers etc) likely means it can’t really ever go big.

I hope one day it does and you can all rub it in my face!!!

Mar 28, 2023 at 12:56pmWeb
Show threadSos SosowskiMar 28, 2023

@mikerose I mean, it will never be a Twitter replacement, or a large bursting social network like Facebook or anything else, but that is a good thing.
So far I’m getting great engagement here for the comparably little followers I have.

This place is alive and I think the reason you’re not seeing this is because you’re on mastodon.social that has been riddled with problems since forever now

Show threadSos SosowskiMar 28, 2023
@mikerose I mean, I see you gained 2.5k followers without even posting :P that’s definitely not nothing
Show threadMike RoseMar 28, 2023
@sos I got those while posting, it stopped once I stopped (which make sense!)
Show threadSos SosowskiMar 28, 2023
@mikerose ahh, weird because your profile is not showing any posts!
Show threadMartijn FrazerMar 28, 2023
@sos @mikerose I see a bunch of posts?
Show threadSos SosowskiMar 28, 2023
@Tijn @mikerose I only see three. Must be the instance acting up again truly
Show threadMartijn FrazerMar 28, 2023
@sos @mikerose Yeah weird. I see a lot more!
Show threadChristiaan MolemanMar 28, 2023
@Tijn @sos @mikerose Probably just this?
Show threadDanny DayMar 28, 2023
@sos @mikerose I feel like the engagement here vs twitter is night and day. We've been doing all our marketing stuff on twitter leading up to a launch and it's been absolutely useless. Here I post one or two random dev things and it gets way more attention... I have no idea what a concerted marketing push would even look like on masto, but it can't hurt to try.
Show thread13 barn owls in a trenchcoatMar 28, 2023

@mikerose Just out of interest, where did you end up going instead?

Things really clicked for me here quite a while ago, so I never really had much incentive to check out Cohost and such, although I gather lots of gamedev people went there.

Show threadJoni KorpiMar 28, 2023
@mikerose ”Happened” or not, engagement here for me has consistently been ~10x of my Twitter’s, even though I have ~10x fewer followers here. So it’s definitely been better for posting, if not for reading.
Show threadTerry Cavanagh 🎲Mar 28, 2023
@mikerose we'll always have HIVE
Show threadjeremy // making Star SparkMar 28, 2023
@terry @mikerose 😆💀
Show threadHenry MeyersMar 28, 2023

@mikerose I've also kinda lost hope that Mastodon can "go big", but I'm still holding out hope that Mozilla or Tumblr or someone else can make a Fediverse platform that does, and then all the existing Mastodon userbase can just communicate directly with them with no hassle and form a viable alternative to the shithole Musk has decided to turn Twitter into

Hoping so so so much Mozilla follows through on this and comes up with a hit https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative | The Mozilla Blog

Update: Starting May 4, 2023, we’re expanding Mozilla.social to a private beta. If you’re interested, join our waitlist. In early 2023, Mozilla will st

Show threadsamfMar 28, 2023
@mikerose 👋🏼 I mean, I wouldn't have read this is it _wasn't_ on Mastodon. So I guess that makes me part of the not-big community here. And I'm okay with this and tbh probably prefer it! Because I don't have to not stand Twitter ever again. :)
Show threadjeremy // making Star SparkMar 28, 2023

@mikerose It’s definitely not doing the same numbers, but I like the atmosphere and feel more.

Hope to see more stuff from you here, Mike! :)

Show threadGaddyMar 28, 2023
@mikerose I agree with you.
I think it's very possible twitter fails and is replaced by something else (and i hope so), but i don't think it will be mastodon.