"Mastodon sucks because any one of the 5000+ communities can set their own rules and might accidentally deprive people in that community of my witty hot takes for a reason I personally believe to be flippant" isn't the sick burn that the Twitter user with 50k followers thinks it is.
@blaine maybe not, but I’m not looking forward to repeatedly explaining to friends and family why they can’t see their favourite celebrity’s toots any more.
But that's exactly the difference in a nutshell. Centralized social networks naturally gravitate towards massive celebrity accounts. Federated servers tend to gravitate towards communities. It *is* smaller, by design. I have 1/25th the followers I had on Twitter yet the engagement is far higher (and much better) so from my point of view, it's not a loss)
@scottjenson @mykd @blaine the engagement is higher because an algorithm isn't choosing what you need to see for you. People often get lost on the bird app because they don't necessarily engage with the people they read. I'm Iove the chronological timeline of Mastodon.
