this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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old twitter founder jack created another social platform just like how twitter was except it has a protocol very similar to activitypub (but not it so not compatible)
EDIT: https://atproto.com/guides/overview
So... why the fuck don't people just use Mastodon or Firefish then?
Mastodon is the one everyone's heard of, but it's not the most intuitive if you're coming from Twitter. Lemmy has the advantage of many old reddit apps switching to its API, making the user experience fairly seamless between them and bringing a bunch of dedicated users. Alternate Twitter apps, if there were any, didn't have that kind of footing, and the official Mastodon app is a bit overwhelming. If there was a similar app for Mastodon that could make content discovery more akin to Twitter, it might have a chance to take off.
I've never used Twitter and I have Mastodon, but only use it a tiny bit.
What discovery feature does (did?) Twitter have that Mastodon doesn't? I ask because I haven't had any issues finding things on Mastodon.
I don't use Mastodon much because I find Mastodon/Twitter a less intuitive method to communicate. I prefer the Lemmy/Reddit method. (On that same note, I also don't understand Discord as a replacement for any of these. It's chat, which is great for chat, but terrible as a Mastodon/Lemmy alternative.)
Also, Mastodon would be better with nested comment, the way it is now is a mess.
THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING