Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

But fediverse isn’t ready to take over yet

But the fediverse isn’t ready. Not by a long shot. The growth that Mastodon has seen thanks to a Twitter exodus has only exposed how hard it is to join the platform, and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there. Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies — the platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors. Neither is Kbin, which doesn’t even have mobile apps and cautions new users that it is “very early beta” software. Flipboard and Mozilla and Tumblr are all working on interesting stuff in this space, but without much to show so far. The upcoming Threads app from Instagram should immediately be the biggest and most powerful thing in this space, but I’m not exactly confident in Meta’s long-term interest in building a better social platform.

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    I never interacted much with Twitter and I’m not a hardcore Mastodonian either, but I don’t understand why people say it’s hard to join.

    For me, the process was simple:

    1. Install Mastodon app
    2. Create account
    3. Select a server from the list presented in-app

    That was it. There was only one step (selecting the server) that is different from any other site. And it didn’t require SMS verification like Facebook, Twitter, and even Google do nowadays. It was objectively easier than signing up for Twitter.

    Am I missing something, or did these people just shit their pants at the server selection screen? I get that it’s a little unfamiliar but…just pick one. It doesn’t really matter. That’s the whole point.

    • Qiz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think the biggest issue is finding the content you are looking for.

      Sometimes people aren’t on Mastodon and even if they are it’s not alway easy to find them if they are not on the same instance.

    • UnanimousStargazer@feddit.nl
      0·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why some people get so confused either. It’s just like choosing an e-mail provider.

      Create the account, try it out, if you don’t like it, delete it. If you do like it, keep it. How hard can this be? Then again, it apparently is.

      The client apps might help out by including an account creation wizard.