ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1249arrow-down12
arrow-up1247arrow-down1external-linkMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square36fedilink
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoThat’s fine. The friction of typing in the person’s name to harass them from the screenshot does deter some people, it turns out.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·1 month agoI actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month agoSame. I like that it is hard to go viral. It feels more like people talking and less like influencers (although there are some.)
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoAt the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.
That’s fine. The friction of typing in the person’s name to harass them from the screenshot does deter some people, it turns out.
I actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
Same. I like that it is hard to go viral. It feels more like people talking and less like influencers (although there are some.)
At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.
Yup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.