@Gargron Too bad the user experience is terrible. 😔

@Gargron I'm noticing even people with thousands of followers are slowly going to mastodon.

So good luck with whole new chapter for mastodon. ;)

@Gargron mastodon>>>>>>>>>>>>>Twitter

@gargron does mastodon.social take contributions? And how? Seems stretched so no sign-ups allowed .

@Gargron You're right... Being a subscriber on social media is interest of the owner

@Gargron looking forward to this experience.

@Gargron absolutely true. Needs a bit more polishing before it reaches the billion users.

@Gargron I have a feeling this is literally only the beginning too. I’m excited and nervous in equal measure. Let’s see how this goes… 🤗

@Gargron Agreed - but it has to work, and Mastodon UX just feels buggy AF right now for folks migrating over from Twitter.

@Gargron this still remains an issue. The siloing

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@Gargron What also scares Twitter users is the fact that often only one person moderates a Mastodon instance, and if that person doesn't like someone, she can abuse the moderation tools at their disposal. And people who are victims of this abusive moderation may then have difficulty migrating to another instance if their account is blocked, for example, not to mention the fact that messages cannot be transferred.

@Gargron Wow, I am getting such flashbacks to the internet as it was a generation ago. I can barely put it into words. There's something great here. Maybe this is the moment for the Cambrian explosion.

@Gargron I'm new here and I'm lost here

@Gargron Deleted my original reply as it was half wrong.

I'm back after 5 months and the platform is slower and more tedious. Not sure if it's the traffic or something else. I'll use it more if issues like these are solved. User experience is key for me. Today couldn't load home page and am still unable to edit profile. I invited some I know to join but no point if it's not scalable.

I'm all for decentralized web and am thankful to those who build and support it. I hope it rises well.

@Gargron why cant i quote the post ? :(

Thank you for all your work!
Large organisations using Twitter and Mastodon becoming mainstream seems like a chicken and egg problem. Are there any efforts to break that?

@Gargron congratulations for all the great work, that now finally gets exposed to a large audience.

I'm grateful for mastodon, I'll do my best to convince people to build their networks here.

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as long as the capitalists dont take over, it seems like a cool system.

@Gargron The biggest issue is they are coming over here thinking this site is going to ban Republicans and independents who disagree with the Democrat party, just like Twitter was doing over there. Eventually, they will realize this is not such site, and they might once again choose to leave. MAYBE. The only positive side in all of this is more users, and people realizing you should be able to write more than 120 freaking words, like I just did.