If Mastodon blows its best chance to replace Twitter by being snotty about how "Mastodon isn't twitter, the culture is different here" that will be the dumbest fucking thing.
*Extremely* the point of Mastodon is that there is more than one of it, so if you don't like the culture of an instance you can ignore it or run your own. Literally never do you need to police somebody else's idea of how to use social media.
@seldo the biggest complaint I've heard is about that core point. Some people REALLY don't like that there are separate servers. They want a 1:1 Twitter replacement, and I don't know how to say "that's literally not what this is, you'll have to find something else where a billionaire baby CAN purchase the whole thing and ruin it for everyone."
@rockerest As I've said a couple times today I truly do not understand what they think is missing, this thing is absolutely a 1:1 Twitter replacement for me, all the bits of it that are not Twitter I am ignoring.
@seldo @rockerest Agree. I've heard a couple people with big Twitter followings be like "tried Mastodon, couldn't understand it". And it's hard for me to imagine how that is.
@acjay @seldo @rockerest well you see, on Twitter there are quote tweets, and usernames have one @ sign in them. On mastodon, usernames have two @ signs in them, and there's no quote tweets, and there's an edit button and higher character count. Other than that, yeah, for all intents and purposes, this is a near perfect twitter replacement.