according to https://piefed.zip/c/fedigrow/p/1122722/growth-of-the-fediverse-20260222 it’s the most popular Fediverse platform by far.
thomasshikari@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Asking genuinely: do people still use Mastodon? It boomed briefly when Musky took twitter but for whatever reason, people decided to go to the data harvesting, ad filled blue sky. I never got either of them but have been recently thinking of mastodon but assumed people don’t still use it.
lemming@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
Does this data take into account that any posts on Lemmy/Piefed are automatically also posts on Mastodon (and comments are replies) but this doesn’t necessarily happen the other way around?
hector@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
Too bad it’s not interoperable with lemmy. It would be cool if their accounts could see a link or crosspost to a post here, pop over and read it from their interface, comment, whatever.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 15 hours ago
I’m not sure if this is sarcasm, but in case it’s not, you very much can read and post to Lemmy via a mastodon account.
hector@lemmy.today 9 hours ago
I haven’t seen any crossover and I’ve been on here half of the winter.
Zombie@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
Mastodon users can take part in Lemmy discussions and subscribe to Lemmy communities. To post in a Lemmy community simply mention the Lemmy community (@LemmyCommunity@LemmyInstance.tld) in a Mastodon post. The first paragraph of the Mastodon post will display in Lemmy as the title, the rest will be the text body. Hashtags won’t be displayed in Lemmy.
oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
do people still use Mastodon?
Yes. Every single day, we see hundreds, if not thousands of posts.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 15 hours ago
Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.
thomasshikari@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oh wow. That’s great to hear! I have, since commenting, set up an account myself. App seems a little bit buggy but, I don’t plan on being on it a lot. I appreciate the interesting feedback from you and the others who took the time to reply.
DakRalter@thelemmy.club 10 hours ago
The only issue I have with mastodon is the federation gets a bit janky (so does Lemmy tbh) but it’s more noticeable on mastodon. My main account is on autistics.life, which is federated with most instances except threads and the maga types, but very often I can’t see images on mastodon.social posts via my main account. In fact I can’t even see a lot of my older mastodon.social posts via my main account without viewing the post via my alt account and then account switching.
I’ve seen people say to avoid using mastodon.social as your main account.
thomasshikari@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I never really even thought to research that much. I scanned the different instances. I joined into privacysafe.social - it seemed fine. Being that I have only been on it for a few hours and have only followed 9 accounts, I can’t say I’ve noticed many issues regarding my feed at this point. Although I wish I could organize my feed by newest first. It doesn’t seem to be that way by default. I have just had a couple minor bugs with profile pages loading strangely.
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Scientists and mathematicians do. The rest will follow when bluesky’s monetisation strategy becomes.too unbearable
hector@lemmy.today 20 hours ago
I briefly tried mastadon. I don’t like the format, it’s a twitter basically, the federation is a plus, but the entire thing is a popularity contest. Almost all engagement is driven by those with large follower counts, 99 percent of posts are seen by almost no one.
Which is ok if you want to build a following, but for your everyday user, reddit or lemmy is more egalitarian, your posts, and your comments, can be considered on their own merit regardless of your follower count.
Noja@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
You need to use hashtags on mastodon, otherwise nobody will be able to find you!
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
gotta find loads of interesting accounts & hashtags, to basically tailor your feed manually, then it can feel very lively. I follow 500 accounts and it has given pretty unique feed compared to bluesky.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I do, but almost no-one else I’d want to follow does, which makes it feel pointless at the moment. Quite a few ‘celebrities’ (for want of a better word) seem to have dormant accounts. One of the few people I know who is posting regularly is Bernie Sanders.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Yea, but it’s growth is limited. People seem incapable of using a platform if there isn’t an algorithm telling them what to look at.
Naich@lemmings.world 22 hours ago
I love it. There are very few arseholes on it.
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
I think the reason why people decided to go with Bluesky is because it’s easier to sign up for. Most people on here are pretty technically inclined, so its hard for them to understand, but the process of picking a server to make an account on is complicated enough to screen out a sizeable fraction of potential users (then waiting for your application for that server to be approved creates an other hurdle for certain people).