They call their toots Tweets but then have a dog as an emblem, Now Mastodon having a dog tooting would work well, My dog toots all the time.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2022
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@ajsadauskas @fediverse while amusing in itself, I think that framing things this way is important too, because it lets us shed the veneer that the status quo is the thing people need to match before any new ideas are allowed to be examined
But Twitter is improving! It already copied several great features from Mastodon, like no italics and bold markup, "tweets" in reverse chrono order, full-size image previews instead of thumbnails (and always at the end), removed the "dislike" button...
It even went one better than Mastodon and limited tweets to 250 chars instead of 500.
Another Mastodon feature that Twitter still lacks is showing the same boosted toot, in full, every time someone boosts it.
@ajsadauskas @TeacherGriff love it! I keep seeing tweet after tweet of ppl who took one look at one Mastodon instance with rules they didn’t like & noped away from all of Mastodon, and the replies are all “Wow, never going there!” And for a couple days I tried to correct the misperceptions…then realized, “Ah well, they’ll find some social app they like, eventually.”
@azzageddi @ajsadauskas @TeacherGriff
Totally support disengaging with problematic birdsite people, but my concern with a lot of the sorts of posts you mention is not the person making them (Mastodon is ill-suited to them and they should stay away) but that they often couch their decisions in general terms like "Mastodon is difficult and confusing" or "Having many different servers is hopeless" or "lots of error messages and glitchy" which are likely to dissuade others from even looking at Mastodon instances.
@IdiotBird @azzageddi @ajsadauskas @TeacherGriff
Having watched a couple of people in particular at the other place, railing against mastodon's 'failings', it seems to be deliberate in some cases. If their following (and maybe income) is based on a degree of constant outrage and conflict, a calmer and more thoughtful platform is never going to win them over. They seem threatened by the possibility of it winning their followers over.
@redmark @azzageddi @ajsadauskas @TeacherGriff
Yeah, I've seen some people straight up say that Mastodoon won't support their income model, which I have a lot more respect for than vague complaints. Also I think there's a lot of displaced anger which I get at some level but doesn't excuse falsehoods.