Twitter users right now

It's crazy how many people will just click accept on security warning them that an app will access literally everything on their phone.

It's also crazy how many people don't even know that Threads is Meta... where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

I've said this a bunch of times, but Mastodon's use of a chronological feed is what kills it. What it really needs is for the default tab to be a "trending" tab, cause that's what users want to see.

No, it's mastodon but centralized. It takes all the difficulty out of signing up for the fediverse, like finding a server. I said it from day 1 on mastodon. We will never see mass adoption until there's a simple sign up process. People like centralized because it's easier.

There are 1 billion active users on Instagram and those users were invited to Threads using an existing account. Celebrities, businesses, streamers, etc. all popped up on Threads within the first few hours of public release.

I'm a big nerd and just learned about the fediverse within recent months. Everyone else I know who uses Twitter and Threads have no clue what Mastodon is.

Nice meme but pls.

The thing I noticed right out of the gate when I went slumming on Threads is that the Android app package is 77MB. Compare that to Mastodon at 2.5MB.

Two apps that (from the user's perspective) do pretty much the same thing - make queries to servers and display pieces of text on the screen, maybe with some pictures or videos. Not that hard.

So what does that extra 74MB of bloat in the Threads app do? Meta's not telling us...

The problem with Mastodon is discoverability. The fact that if I follow 10 hashtags, it won't sort them on my homepage, but will be fully chronological.

Say I follow #photography. The top of my homepage would be the post posted 2s ago, no matter how bad it is. It is so hard to find quality content.

Now, Threads' algorithm is pretty bad, but it's still a lot easier to find quality content there instead of on Mastodon. Mastodon badly needs sorting by Hot, Active etc like there is on Lemmy.

The average Twitter user has no idea what Mastodon is.

Federation is so confusing! Why can't I just sign up at facebook.com where the rest of the internet is? You guys and your cryptofederatedarkweb.

Don't forget the amount of data you'll be sharing, including health records

Literally this, or the Web3 BS Bluesky.

Anyone else notice the cursor on the top left?

Back to business as usual. The reality is that the majority of people can’t be bothered with privacy and other scandals from GAFAM.

The silver lining of the whole Reddit and Twitter fiasco is that more people are interested in and participating in a decentralized network. That’s a good thing for the community.

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It's insane how much people actually unironically chill for Meta and Zuckerberg now because Elmo is mad. Fucking Zuckerberg...

Nah, Twitter users stay where they are. That's Instagram users seeing what Twitter is like.

Threads satiated the one thing Mastodon didn't - lazy asses who might have been curious but really didn't to make the transition to something that sounded unfamiliar, complex, and a bit crude to them. Using OS metaphors, Threads is Windows, Mastodon is Linux.

I can barely find anything in Arabic on the fediverse, but on threads I can find all the relevant and local posts I want in Arabic

Threads is the narcissism of Instgrammers and the psychopathy of Twitterers

I much rather use mastodon. It's so much better, despite the volume, but low volume is nice at times. Feels manageable. Being able to stick to local instances but also link to others is great. All around better model compared to centralized stuff.

Also it frees up my time to do other things.

If they want people to use Mastodon, then make it user-friendly and easy for the general public. I downloaded it, tried it, and was lost/confused on the whole server/instance thing and finding communities etc. Whereas Threads is pretty straight forward, it's just a Twitter clone. User experience is more important than privacy to the general public and developers need to realise you can't compromise user experience/ease of use/accessibility.

An alternative to Twitter with an Instagram flavor.

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They ended up going back to Twitter lol

I should try Mastodon

All public content on the web is heavily surveillanced through crawling bots by Google and alike.

The biggest L is watching porn artists try to move to Threads when the platform doesn't even allow their content.

Can I say that mastodon is a horrible name?

ikr! Like I'm so confused like, just get on mastodon and don't deal with threads like ??????????

I love mastadon, I hope threads burns down to the ground. I am not a big fan of THE ZUCKMAN

Lol, I got hyped about Threads until I saw who runs it... meta... yeah no thanks!

But I don't WANT control over what I see online, I need to have a constant feed of garbage thrown in my face at all times!

I truly do not get it. I hate everything lizard boy touches :(

Are threads federated?

It's like that with facebook's services too.

Is it really mastodon if no instance federates with them

How is twitter still alive? I have been wondering it since 2013 when i stopped using it

Shameless self promotion and brands or furries talking infosec.

let them take baby steps

I'm using the Thunder app to access my lemmy.world account. Is Mastodon also Lemmy? Can I browse lemmy.world and mastodon at the same time? I'm so new and vv confused.

Mastodon but with people and content*

It suits them though

"No corporate bullshit! It's ruined twitter!"

"OK maybe some corporate bullshit, I'm sure Facebook will be better."

you think they know?
you think that Instagram users have any idea about what they are getting into?
most of them probably don't even know that Instangram is owned by Meta / Facebook, despite the small logo.

Of topic, but wtf is that logo?

Sure, it's a tangled thread, but is that it?

It looks like it could be a C or E, but that doesn't seem meaningful.

people also undervalue ease of use

It blows my mind how anyone is being able to create something worse than twitter, truly fascinting.

And the fact that threads will be compatible with the fediverse make the mastodon’s user: 😁 😁

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Why is there a mouse in top left?

In it for the long haul, its going to bathtub but we'll get there eventually

i dont undearsnt the joke where is meme

Is it just me or does threads symbol look like no step on snek?

The same thing that is happening between reddit and lemmy is happening between twitter and nostr.

Human beings (a minority at least) will always seek freedom first and foremost.

I invite you to discover the wonderful community of nostr!

I suppose the onboarding has a lot to do with it. Creating a mastodon-compatible account is a hassle. You have to ke choices. The experience isn't seamless.

Haha perfect. Not to take away from this, but threads makes the onboarding experience just so much easier and with the existing social graph from instagram they have basically everyone on earth linked already

Mastodon is a mess though.

That shit is government twitter. https://www.spill.com/ another black twitter

Twitter … never heard that in a while.