My opinion on Mastodon after 2 weeks...
My opinion on Mastodon after 2 weeks...
I’m not going to make a big paragraph to explain myself but here are the positive points:
- No advertising
- Diversified applications
- Very good freedom of expression
- Fedivers
- Verification (using a website)
Now negative points:
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I was sold instances that served as a mirror with X which would have facilitated integration into Mastodon for users like me. Only 2% of the accounts I follow on X are on Mastodon (Mozilla, Proton).
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There are not really « fun » accounts like https://x.com/humansnocontext that post funny video clips, I find Mastodon a little too serious, I see a lot of political accounts and sometimes the lives of normal people like mine. It’s a shame 😕. I mean, I chose Lemmy because it’s so much more diverse!
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You cannot change your username. It’s a shame about that...
Well, that was my opinion on Mastodon.
If you have recommendations, favorites of Mastodon accounts, share them with me.
Do you feel similar shortcomings from lemmy compared to reddit?
I apologize for not having more to add. I just find it interesting to see what others feel who swapped to mastadon and lemmy.
Never liked Mastodon (neither did I like Twitter, X or whatever tf it is now) because of the no-community nature of it. Therefore, can't speak for Mastodon vs Lemmy.
However, I do see the "why so serious" problem on Lemmy a lot compared to Reddit. It can be depressing at times honestly. Lemmy really needs to up its shitposting game. Unfortunately, I do find myself going to Reddit when I want to come across uplifting posts. I really don't want to know how the world is inching towards fascism every day at such times.
I feel like there's not as much content in shitposting subreddits. I also really miss videos. But I'm really glad I changed to Lemmy as much of a shithole Reddit has become.
I have not had Twitter before so it's quite an unusual format for me. I though since it's part of the fediverse, might as well check it out. Following a couple accounts and have a shitpost account myself. And.. Videos!
There's a couple meme accounts active, not many though. No specific content account like you mentioned as you mentioned. Totally agree with you that it sometimes gets taken a little too serious.
You cannot change your username.
You cannot change your handle, your display name can be changed anytime :)
and if you really don’t like your handle, you can make a new account and migrate your follows to it automatically
Migration on Mastodon is really not good enough to use it for switching accounts. Unless you just never post and only follow people
A little hardcore method in my opinion. This is especially if the instance is dying.
I follow some meme accounts, if you'd be interested:
- https://mas.to/@skeletor
- https://socel.net/@webcanids
- https://socel.net/@heyheymomo
- https://wetdry.world/@nonfedimemes
- https://botsin.space/@yeahohbot
These aren't meme accounts per se, but their "<x> of the day" posts are still neat to me:
- https://botsin.space/@quaddicted_motd
- https://tea.codes/@cat
- https://varmint.town/@CatsOfYore
- https://fluffytail.gay/@Hourlymarcille
- https://mastodon.bot/@apod
- https://mastodon.social/@chromblitzen
- https://mastodon.social/@256
- https://brands.town/@FoxNews (don't let the name trick you, it just posts pictures of actual Foxes)
- https://botsin.space/@AlphaScreenshots
I hope this can be of use to help lighten up your Mastodon experience. 😅
Thank you! I was on the lookout for this kind of thing too.
I use Mastodon but my main issue is the like of interaction. Even large accounts with many followers receive almost zero likes or boosts on their posts. Makes it feel like thousands of people shouting into the same void and trying not to make eye contact.
This is exactly it for me, too. Despite having significantly more users than Lemmy, Mastodon still feels much less social.
Case in point: I went looking for journalists to follow, because that's one of the main uses I had for Twitter, but found almost none. Of the few I did find, almost no one was interacting with their posts at all. I even saw one journalist post a plea to her followers to boost, like, or just do something because she was on the point of giving up due to the lack of response she was getting. It was sad, quite honestly.
There needs to be a way to help users find content to engage with that doesn't require an algorithm to force feed it down people's throats.
I tend to like the instance I'm on pretty well (wetdry.world). It's not as serious and mostly everyone is a linux-using shit poster.
But I'm inclined to agree, I do miss the really funny gimmick accounts from Twitter.
I never liked twitter, and never tried mastodon. Not my type of format.