Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.
For me, discoverability seems harder on Mastodon. I use it quite a bit, but so far it’s hard to just stumble across other users who I don’t know that are posting interesting things. But I assume in time that will change.
The difference between Mastodon today and when I joined 10+ months ago is there are a lot more people posting on Mastodon now.
I’m not a twitter user, and also I thought that you’d find groups with whom you’d share, but instead I only found accounts telling me news I already knew. Roughly.
For me I’ll check out my account from time to time for the FOSS stuff, but I could probably just hang out somewhere else (IDK where though :-)
@mbryson@maegul
According to the CEO of Mastodon last time I chatted with him, the software tracks log-ins, so people like me, who do not log out and in again, would be invisible. So I would say with a certain level of confidence that those are active users you are seeing. Unless he changed the code of course, but it did not seem to be high on his ToDo list.
Mastodon numbers are crazy when compared to the rest of the software on that list. Makes me wonder just how many are active users and/or how many search “Mastodon” after Musk bought twitter, made an account on mastodon.social and left it.
MAU means “monthly active users”. As you can see, the ratio MAU/users is not higher for Mastodon than it is for Lemmy.
Uhh am I missing something? Linked page says Mastodon has 1 million mau, while for lemmy it says just below 40 000 mau?
They were talking about MAU Vs Users, which is similar (mastodon has like x 40 in each)
Its the ratio not the number
Ah “ratio”, thanks!
For me, Mastodon was not very user friendly. I still jump on it every now and then but I’m still not comfortable with it yet.
For me, Mastodon was actually quite nice once I started following hashtags.
For me, Mastodon is a great metal band.
Wait, you can do that? Is it possible on the app?
Tapping on a hashtag generally gives an option to follow it. It works just like following a person.
Here’s the option on Megalodon (which I’d guess is similar to the official app)
And here it is in Trunks
Ooh, lovely. I didn’t find rhis on official app but switches to Megalodon and it works like a charm. Thank you!
I need to try that. Thanks for the tip!
For me, discoverability seems harder on Mastodon. I use it quite a bit, but so far it’s hard to just stumble across other users who I don’t know that are posting interesting things. But I assume in time that will change.
The difference between Mastodon today and when I joined 10+ months ago is there are a lot more people posting on Mastodon now.
Out of curiosity, what were some things you found hard to get used to about Mastodon?
Finding interesting things to follow.
I’m not a twitter user, and also I thought that you’d find groups with whom you’d share, but instead I only found accounts telling me news I already knew. Roughly.
For me I’ll check out my account from time to time for the FOSS stuff, but I could probably just hang out somewhere else (IDK where though :-)
@mbryson @maegul
According to the CEO of Mastodon last time I chatted with him, the software tracks log-ins, so people like me, who do not log out and in again, would be invisible. So I would say with a certain level of confidence that those are active users you are seeing. Unless he changed the code of course, but it did not seem to be high on his ToDo list.
… and then went back to twitter, but did not deactivate their #Fediverse account.
Or like me, tried 3 different ones before finding a fourth that worked.
I’m not a Twitter person pes se but it was the only (that I knew about, sadly) decentralized thing on the web that could replace reddit.
I tried Twitter long long ago. I did not enjoy it. I tried Mastodon. And strangely I understand it better than I understand Twitter.
Weird I know. And I can’t explain it.