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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't believe the artist would willingly pay $5 to use a social media site and still want to see ads

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He's Australian, we're used to getting screwed on pricing for everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

You ain't kiddin' man, I went there and I couldn't believe the amount of chiseling you all have to put up with. And I'm American!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Funny, but feels unfair to mastodon (as someone who doesn’t use mastodon), they are definitely not trying to destroy the world and could use donations too!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No journalist has any idea how Mastodon works

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Honestly by completely ignoring the subject of federation, aside from acknowledging that mastodon’s creators/owners/etc have limited scope to turn evil, they’ve actually done a fairly reasonable job with this one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Actually this one's on Mastodon at @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The sign up process is kind of user hostile (or at least was a couple of months ago, they improved it a lot). People don't really want to have to figure out which server to sign up to if they barely know what a server is.

They're probably not talking about the actual conversations on Mastodon (although there's definitely some condescension there, like if you dare to post an image without alt text they'll come out).

[–] Polendri 8 points 2 years ago

I feel that about the Fediverse too, despite being highly technical. Picking a server involves trust (e.g. that they won't go offline and take your account down with them), but you're just exposed to a list of servers with no idea who runs them. Plus, the server name shows up in your handle, so it affects one's public persona and people care about that.

I'm on Lemmy through lemmy.ca which feels like an authoritative "Lemmy for Canada", but... it's just some random individual person who snagged the domain name. They seem great but I have no assurance that something weird won't happen with it later.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

they're right about mastodon being light on the shitposts. it feels like it has all the self-importance of annoying twitter users, but none of the fun parts of twitter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Re: shitposts, it definitely strongly depends on who you follow. My home feed on mastodon is inundated with shitposts (and I like each one)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Given that my Mastodon feed is around 15% pooptoots (where I like it), it seems that you’re following the wrong people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Isn't that why the artist put a "NO" in the corresponding row?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Twitter is burning.
Bluesky is smug.
T2’s still learning.
And Threads has bug.

Mastodon’s tricky.
Discord’s a slog.
Spill is picky.
You might as well blog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  • Hell Socialstein, "Where the Infinite Scroll Ends"
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks. Never heard of that one but it made my goddanged day!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

I think Bsky's biggest challenge is that you can't get on the damn platform.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

/c/collapse on Lemmy works fine for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wonder where Substack Notes stacks up

[–] Poob 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't use Mastadon or any other micro blogging site. What makes it condescending? I'm assuming the artist is talking out of their ass to try and be funny

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