• Batmorous@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Let’s gooooo!!! Also hoping we can get gif support on Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc. Would he a tiny yet massive way to make the platforms more interactive. Each community can enable or disable gifs as an option and allow users to disable gif’s completely. That would be a good way to have it

  • Churlish_Witness@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Honestly floored at how many open-source projects don’t even HAVE a Mastodon presence. Like, I get it, you need a social media presence where your users are (and at least a presence on the big, billionaire-owned platforms to at LEAST have a hedge against copycats/scammers), but at least HAVE one there. And have a Lemmy community! Yoof.

  • arcine@jlai.lu
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    19 days ago

    Amazing to see Mastodon instead of Bluesky there ! Too many people falling for the Bluesky trap…

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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      19 days ago

      Yeah, I’m surprised how many go to Bluesky. It’s just Twitter all over again, controlled by a single company.

    • oh_@lemmy.world
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      19 days ago

      Tbh I am on Bluesky more than Mastodon. Bluesky just feels easier to use. Normal users don’t care about federation. They want the app to work easily for them. Mastodon requires a bit to get a good feed etc. Bluesky you can be lazy. Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

        • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
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          19 days ago

          But can it really be addressed? Centralized systems will probably always be easier to use. For example, if you want to follow a lemmy community, it will be community@somewhere instead of just the community name, and it will be possible to have competing communities with the same same but different servers. This will always leave people confused, and it’s something inherent to the federated model

  • Korkki@lemmy.ml
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    19 days ago

    Leave X for Mastodon

    I hope they don’t phase X out, because that would be a social media suicide. Orgs, public personas and projects are not average users and can’t really care about personal preference or user experience, they only need to care where people are. They are there to get social media reach and just jumping out of Xitter would harm their social media presence and the project.

    • TheSambassador@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 days ago

      Is there any data on how many actual people still regularly use Twitter? I feel like you’re assuming that that’s where the users are, and maybe that’s still true, but I don’t know a single real life person who still actually uses it.

      • Korkki@lemmy.ml
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        19 days ago

        X has 600 million users, Mastodon 9-10 million. Even if you assume 2/3 of Xitter are bots, that’s still 20x difference in reach. You should know that you and I are not “normal” for using Mastodon. A group of randomly picked people 9/10 will know of X/twitter, maybe 3/10 have heard of Mastodon.

      • Vegafjord eo@lemmy.ml
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        18 days ago

        Good on you. Simply doesnt work for me.

        Im not going to be a detective if the program has a lot of issues out of the box.

        • ksh@aussie.zone
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          18 days ago

          Each to their own. I got more issues with Microsoft, Google docs which is why I stopped using them for really long documents. Still use Google docs for most things but not all.

  • harmbugler@piefed.socialEnglish
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    19 days ago

    Give them a follow at @libreoffice@fosstodon.org to show them support!

    Edit: I tried to search how to create the link, but couldn’t find the right info, so would appreciate any insight. But you should be able to search in Mastodon for them.