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The simplest way of describing mastodon is: its irrelevant. Almost nothing in it mimicks that total twitter coverage of some big event, no matter your nieche.

And even though twitter now isnt like Twitter before, its still much much more alive than mastodon. The only nieches that are active on mastodon are tech people and some governments and absolutely nothing else. No sports, no news, heck even tech is smaller, and of course, want to search for something? Good luck.

I agree with the author, the whole thing distanced me from Twitter, tried fediverse but it ain't there mate.




> The only nieches that are active on mastodon are tech people and some governments

You're forgetting furries and kink-adjacent folks.


Doesn't make it any better, probably even worse.


> The only nieches that are active on mastodon are tech people

By this argument, Hacker News is irrelevant.


The difference is hacker news actually speaks about stuff outside of tech.


I'm extremely skeptical of anyone who claims they can say what's happening on all of Mastodon, especially since it's a distributed network.


Thats actually a part of the problem, search and discoverablility is so crap on purpose, its impossible to find anything or anyone!




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