ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down12 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1240arrow-down1external-linkMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square30linkfedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days 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-up6·2 days agoI actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days 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 day 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 day 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.