This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
That’s just mastodon for you, since it has no algo. You’ll get gaslighted into being told this is good despite being continued to be bored. Unfortunately what you described is the Mastodon experience currently.
I think the value in Mastodon rn is getting away from the algo. I think the lack of one does limit its marketability though. I never really liked Twitter but I know a lot of people who do who hate mastodon because of how complicated it feels and the lack of content.
I never felt it was too complicated, though the people unfamiliar with decentralization definitely get confused by the process of on boarding. The lack of content is still the issue for a lot of reasons. Mastodon’s search is straight up broken. Also it doesn’t show federations of users you’re following, it can definitely extend it’s social graph a lot more. They intentionally nerf it for dumb reasons thinking it somehow marginalizes people, it makes no sense.
Lemmy does do this and is why it feels a lot more exciting on Lemmy. It’s also why I pretty much abandoned Mastodon since most of my time is on Lemmy at this point.
Or maybe people just have to learn to build their own feed. It’s honestly not hard.
This is literally what I’m talking about. You say that and then wonder why Mastodon doesn’t catch on, yet every other successful social media does this. It’s already evident that people don’t want this by the huge numbers dropping off mastodon.
No, people are just addicted to their super engaging algos on twitter/insta/whatever, they’re just unable to quit.
Engaging is another word for entertaining. I’ll take that over boring liberals preaching in their echo chamber.
Did you just unironically refer to us pejoratively as “boring liberals” while also claiming Mastodon is an “Echo chamber”, Cringe.
Sure, if you act like the mastodon users who are holier-than-thou preachy, yet are the harmful capitalists that create the problems they preach against. They’re toxic. Not to right wingers, but to other left wingers. If you’re new to these politics outside of America, I’m not right wing btw, I’m more left then they are which is why I’m not capitalist.
Mastodon is fine. Nor does it need to be as massive as Twitter.
Hm, that’s too bad. Though it shows the incredible powers those algorithms have. Mastodon has been utterly bland for me but I’m not ready to give up yet.
You got to follow a bunch of people before it starts to feel worthwhile, see if anybody you know from outside of Mastodon has a profile there, or open up different instances and check out people there.
If you want you can even follow people and Communities (though on Mastodon they’re called groups) from Lemmy and reply to them from Mastodon (it is a little bit clunky).
Though for best results you should try and follow people on Mastodon or similar federated microblogging platforms, since people who they follow also have a chance of showing up in your feed.
Yeah, I found out Lemmy and Mastodon are somehow related (when I, for example, came across my own Lemmy account on Mastodon).
Thanks for the tips
I feel it is a bit of a reality check in that most people actually just post mundane stuff, while certain other sites purposely promote all the rage bait and controversial topics instead, which somewhat distorts your potential world view.
The lack of an algo, is exactly why it’s good. It won’t try to turn you into a zombie (= it’s not designed to keep you hooked).
I have the exact opposite experience and get overwhelmed by the number of notification I get on it.
The issue is people thinking Mastodon is Twitter bis. It’s not. You need to understand the philosophy behind it.