Isn’t Mastadon more a loose conglomeration of independent self-hosted instances? Sort of the Lemmy to Twitter’s Reddit? Might be good to cite a few high quality Mastadon instances than just point people to “Mastadon” as a generic source.
Also should note that there’s still the Garbage-In / Garbage-Out problem. Mastadon is only as good as its user base. Twitter’s admin went from bad to nightmarish under Elon, but it was still choke full of annoying, manipulative bullshit. Mastadon has all the same problems, just on a smaller scale because of its lighter userbase. Get the environment up to 400M users and you’re going to see the exact same basket of incentives for manipulation and abuse.
Hell, just look at Threads. Same exact problems, just skewed towards Facebook friendly corporate influencers rather than Twitter friendly Groypers.
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Isn’t Mastadon more a loose conglomeration of independent self-hosted instances? Sort of the Lemmy to Twitter’s Reddit? Might be good to cite a few high quality Mastadon instances than just point people to “Mastadon” as a generic source.
Also should note that there’s still the Garbage-In / Garbage-Out problem. Mastadon is only as good as its user base. Twitter’s admin went from bad to nightmarish under Elon, but it was still choke full of annoying, manipulative bullshit. Mastadon has all the same problems, just on a smaller scale because of its lighter userbase. Get the environment up to 400M users and you’re going to see the exact same basket of incentives for manipulation and abuse.
Hell, just look at Threads. Same exact problems, just skewed towards Facebook friendly corporate influencers rather than Twitter friendly Groypers.