maegulThis happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!
mbrysonMastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search "Mastodon" after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.
LiwottMakes me wonder just how many are active users
MAU means "monthly active users". As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.
mtdysonFor me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I'm still not comfortable with it yet.
RxBradFor me, Mastodon was actually quite nice once I started following hashtags.
htmonoWait, you can do that? Is it possible on the app?
Tapping on a hashtag generally gives an option to follow it. It works just like following a person.
Here's the option on Megalodon (which I'd guess is similar to the official app)
And here it is in Trunks
Ooh, lovely. I didn't find rhis on official app but switches to Megalodon and it works like a charm. Thank you!
Out of curiosity, what were some things you found hard to get used to about Mastodon?
Finding interesting things to follow.
I'm not a twitter user, and also I thought that you'd find groups with whom you'd share, but instead I only found accounts telling me news I already knew. Roughly.
For me I'll check out my account from time to time for the FOSS stuff, but I could probably just hang out somewhere else (IDK where though :-)
Ah, I do believe being able to follow hashtags was a relatively recent feature, so recent in fact that the official mobile app doesn't support it yet. Perhaps that's what was missing when you tried it?
bunjixUhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?
They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)
Arindam Basu… and then went back to twitter, but did not deactivate their #Fediverse account.
Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.
I'm not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.
Liempong_pagongI tried Twitter long long ago. I did not enjoy it. I tried Mastodon. And strangely I understand it better than I understand Twitter.
Weird I know. And I can't explain it.