One question: why do you guys using this? All Twitter refugees?
@lukecao i mean I started now with all the twitter migration, but I wasn’t really using twitter anymore. I guess it’s a bit of curiosity and to see how this shapes in the coming weeks/months. I don’t think it will be the new twitter, and I personally think it shouldn’t be. It should become its own thing and shape into something new that people would love. Otherwise, Twitter will (if it survives this chaos) welcome back all the migrants once the dust settles and doesn’t disappears, and Mastodon will slowly become less and less relevant.
@iPabloSB One more thing is, if Mastodon arrange contents on different servers, it might control hatred speech better than Twitter does
@lukecao yeah, I think the federation of mastodon is its strong point and weakness. It will scare some that look for the simplicity a single instance like twitter has, but it provides amazing tools to make every server different, with a set of rules and tools to make it the instance you want to stay in. Following servers, banning others and keeping another account for a specialized server such as a TTRPG, gaming, music and so on makes Mastodon different enough that it can create its own path and be strong enough to survive and thrive on the twitter demise and current massive migration.
@iPabloSB Do you think people will go back to Twitter? After all, the features are quite similar between the two platforms but there is more abundant content on Twitter.