Comparing :Twitter: to :Mastodon:
Pretty much everything I valued at #Twitter has moved to some extent to #Mastodon. So why do I still visit?
I've come to realize that the main factor is simply scale. The content quality on the pachyderm 🐘 is an order of magnitude better, but also pretty thin when looking at any sufficiently narrow subject.
And, in the other direction, your audience reach is more engaged, but much smaller. (That's actually a feature, not a bug, for me.)
I do NOT feel in touch with the world when on the #Fediverse, compared to the #birdsite 🐦 . News eventually arrives, but hardly instant.
So a long way to get to asking:
Are most of the shortcomings of #distributed #socialmedia just about scale? Can we grow into a more satisfying experience.
Or perhaps, there by dragons?
@EubieDrew pro tip: I've started using tools like netnewswire to get updates from twitter accounts without visiting the website
netnewswire is limited to the Appleverse
Checking out feedly right now.
@EubieDrew I'm sure there are other feed readers for other operating systems! I think there's even some web-based ones!