@fromjason as a person who avidly used threads and am starting to also use mastodon, I really dont see much difference except i find it much harder to follow the things/ people I like on mastodon. I am not saying by any means that mastodon is worse or threads is better or vice versa, they both have their uses and both have their needs. I wish I could find a community to get behind but I just don’t understand how mastodon could be better nor threads better than each other.
@fromjason Isn’t Mastodon on the same path towards being a market, just sans algorithm? Sure, it’s not an ad platform (yet?), but I’m not seeing much actual community-building here and virtually everyone is on one large server (too big/diverse to be much of a “community”). It’s not positioned as being for “communities,” but instead is a way to avoid the rent-seeking platforms.
When/if it reaches critical mass, won’t the same brands/companies follow + it’ll be just another distribution channel?
@rscottjones I suspect your view of the Fediverse may be sufficiently filtered by the server you are on.
Here's the communities-first model that the guy that runs yours used to promote before he declared himself "CEO of Mastodon" and sold out to big tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE
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