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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by _LordMcNuggets_ to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've been giving Mastodon a fair share over the past few months, but even though the user base is significantly larger on that platform than Lemmy, I find the actual user ENGAGEMENT significantly worse. I'll be posting random super interesting shit (according to me at least) and get fuck all as any for of reaction whatsoever, whereas Lemmy and its users actually engage in dope content. Therefore I've come to the clear scientific and educated decision that Lemmy is simply superior. Since it's "AskLemmy" - thoughts?

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 28 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy is the perfect application for the fediverse.

Mastodon is supposed to replace twitter.

Twitter was stupid easy. That was the appeal.

Mastodon is slightly harder than twitter to understand and use.

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

I had such a hard time trying to start off on mastodon. Finding the right accounts to follow, getting some basic filtering, no recommendations, ...

That was very difficult and uncomfortably unintuitive for me. And I am a software engineer.

I can only imagine what hell that might be for a "normie".

I love the fediverse and all it's platforms, including mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, matrix, etc. but we still have a long way to go for people to adopt them, especially if you make it hard to get started.

I personally think the issue was never the recommendations or "content milling". It was that there was no way to change it or turn it off.

I think the best way to make it more appealing is to put in the basics of other centralized platform but show users that it's a choice, every time.

Registration? Enable OAuth with Google etc., but show users all of the options.

Recommendations? Use open source algorithms. Or models. On first login enable it and ask them if they want it to stay enabled, changed, or disabled.

Privacy? Turn off telemetry but tell them on first login they are free to turn it on in the settings to help with development.

Donations? Just like in boost for Lemmy, this should be the bottom-most option in the settings. Dessalines deserves the support.

I think the issue was never that a platform is capable of all the things lots of people don't like, the issue were the dark patterns of opt out and making things hard to disable. Choice is powerful when it's truly free and transparent.

[–] _LordMcNuggets_ 16 points 19 hours ago

I also never liked the twitter format of "tweets", there's too much going on at once and I feel overstimulated