Mastodon is bad and doesn’t replace twitter. No algorithmic feed = doomed to fail. Threadiverse somehow works only cause upvotes and comments create decent sorting metrics for browsing all subs.
After seeing piefed, I think they can divert resources to create an algorithmic feed for mastodon if they want to. Except I don’t know how much they are willing to do that. European projects are riding on half anger and half nationalism, not the perfect time for rational thought.
What does “fail” mean? Twitter’s algorithm is for entertainment. Mastodon is designed for discussion. Both can exist just fine, but you can’t have a platform that does both well.
When i said “designed for discussion” I meant that Mastodon posts are displayed in chronological order instead of sorted by engagement.
I agree that would result in a commercial failure, but Mastodon is not commercial, not does it have an obligation to grow. So it seems to be working very well for the people who do use it.
Chronological order is pure hell if someone shitposts 30 times a day. And it’s not like this is a wrong use for social media app to be blocking such a user or something.
Mastodon is bad and doesn’t replace twitter. No algorithmic feed = doomed to fail. Threadiverse somehow works only cause upvotes and comments create decent sorting metrics for browsing all subs.
After seeing piefed, I think they can divert resources to create an algorithmic feed for mastodon if they want to. Except I don’t know how much they are willing to do that. European projects are riding on half anger and half nationalism, not the perfect time for rational thought.
What does “fail” mean? Twitter’s algorithm is for entertainment. Mastodon is designed for discussion. Both can exist just fine, but you can’t have a platform that does both well.
What does “designed for discussion” even mean. It has Twitter UI/UX and mirrors most of functionality. It’s not stackexchange.
It just happens that mastodon has more IT people now cause other people don’t eat the complexity. I’ve watched people try and be disappointed.
When i said “designed for discussion” I meant that Mastodon posts are displayed in chronological order instead of sorted by engagement.
I agree that would result in a commercial failure, but Mastodon is not commercial, not does it have an obligation to grow. So it seems to be working very well for the people who do use it.
Chronological order is pure hell if someone shitposts 30 times a day. And it’s not like this is a wrong use for social media app to be blocking such a user or something.
Ultimately they just need a rss feed