It’s approximately one year since the peak of the enshittification of Twitter and the big Mastodon influx. Let’s ask again: What is your main microblogging platform? Boosts welcome.
@rolle I like that it feels more like Twitter in a lot of ways, and that some things "just work" to a larger degree than in Mastodon especially if you're on a small or private instance for technical reasons
@rolle also there's a very nice small-ish community of third party devs there that hang out on a discord server, who are hacking on various tools and helping each other understand the API, and I feel more motivated to build things there, because I've seen some… incidents here on Fedi with devs trying to build things that were not received well, which discouraged me from building for this platform
@mackuba I have very different exprience of Mastodon. I implemented open text search and many other changes like threaded lines before they were in the official repo.
> devs [...] who are hacking on various tools and helping each other understand the API, and I feel more motivated to build things there
This is my experience on Mastodon. Very nice community especially #MastoAdmin.
@rolle Yes, I've used the Bird UI before, it does make things much nicer IMHO! 🙂 I turned it off temporarily now, but I think I'll switch back after I update to 4.2.
I've set up my own instance because I was on a different one before and it was shut down unexpectedly, and I didn't even manage to migrate the account in time. So I decided I don't want to have to rely on anyone else again. (That's another thing I dislike about AP, that your account & identity is permanently tied to an instance…).
@rolle The only issue with this is... how do you gauge the other platforms? It's like bringing a pop up about what OS you are using, and it only shows up in Windows.
@rolle I honestly am not sure. I've been using Twitter less but I've been here and on Bluesky about the same. The art community is why I continue to use Twitter at all. The drama on mastodon.art certainly isn't helping attract artists to Mastodon. Yes, I know they can join other instances, but mastodon.art is likely to be the one they try first, and you only get one chance to make a first impression.
@rolle
This is more of a technical thing at the moment, Fediverse is my focus.
eX-twitter, killed access to the api for the good clients and without them it is really annoying to use.
Still trying to get more people to have alternative accounts elsewhere but breaking the network LOCKIN effect is difficult.
@rolle Mastodon and Discord are my only two social media connections. I would also be surprised if Mastodon lost with the poll being presented on Mastodon. It might be more interesting to see how many people use what social networking sites in general instead of preferred where there is some bias built into the presentation of the question.
Am I overthinking this? probably.🤷
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