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As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Frostwolf to c/technology
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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, they need to ramp it way faster. It's pretty garbage right now and there's really no excuse. Compare it to Lemmy and it's very obvious. Lemmy still has problems, but it's much easier to use and has way fewer bugs and glitches. If you're used to Reddit, then switching to Lemmy is pretty easy to do, and I can see average users making that jump. But Mastadon isn't even close to the user experience that Twitter/X offered, and I cannot see the average Twitter user sticking around and waiting for all the issue to be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I switched from Reddit to Lemmy today and I fully condone your comment. I decided to not use any microblogging service before using mastodon after Twitter. The switch from Reddit to Lemmy was a bliss.

[–] sumofchemicals 3 points 1 year ago

What would you say is missing from the mastodon user experience vs twitter?

Things I would like:

  • better discovery/suggestions when people first join. I get a "selling point" is that the timeline isn't algorithmically driven, but just to help people get their feet wet start showing them some stuff
  • when displaying a post there needs to be a better mechanism to fetch all the replies. Right now it's possible to respond and say something someone else already did because you you're not shown their reply. For federation reasons I guess.
  • better list integration

But overall, for me the functionality I used from twitter I have on mastodon too. The real missing feature is the huge variety of people, and getting that takes time.