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  • Hazel『They/Them』English
    2•3 days ago

    Unfortunately fedverse isn’t really ready for the general population, it’s why so many people flocked to bluesky over mastodon. I know I prefer blueskys UI and features over what Mastodon has to offer.

    Though Tumblr is planning to enter the fedverse so maybe that’ll help somehow.

    • @TWB0109@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1•3 days ago

      Yeah idk, maybe I’m not that much of a micro blogger, i was never a twitter/tumblr user, so mastodon is kind of new to me, so I don’t miss any features. As far as UI, I believe most mastodon instances look pretty good, just not a twitter carbon copy like Bluesky, but that’s a matter of taste.

      I believe the biggest problem is “clout” or following, with likes and boosts and stuff like that not being properly federated most of the time, people simply can not “grow”

      • @sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1•2 hours ago

        One thing I did recently was search mastodon for some “normal” topics like fashion and yoga, but I didn’t find much.

        The nice thing about Mastodon and ActivityPub is that they’re designed for the long run, and don’t need profits to be successful. So they can have slow growth year over year and still survive and slowly build up a user base that gradually adds more and more topics to attract more people.