Weirdly, it’s nothing to do with how color forms in our brain (the actual ‘my blue your blue’ thing), only what we call it. So it’s mainly semantics.

Cool website nevertheless.

I’m just saying, that they are really, really inefficient as RSS for everyday people since the are more posts you didn’t subscribe to, than the ones you subscribed to.

Hence saying that it’s what people use them for IMO , genedally, is incorrect.

When you say “people…”, assume that most use the native app.

No u

I think people are tired of the 140 character type social networks, the novelty has simply worn off. It’s either self-promotion or “I had two eggs for breakfast lol” type of posts.

People who came to Mastodon, posted “Hello world!” and didn’t bother to set a profile picture or add a description will always complain about the lack of discoverability, or the place being boring.

You literally have to put in work to set up your feed, follow hashtags, people and post yourself for it to be a network and not just a feed of things. And I think people struggle with this concept a lot.

I do understand that it’s not for everyone. But it’s not a problem with Mastodon, it’s just a natural filter IMO. “You have to put at least this much effort to integrate”. Low-effort things are usually just rage-bait.

Both Intsagram and Twitter will fill your feed with random people / brands you don’t follow.

It’s all about the dopamine hit.

Sure, blue checkmark.

Mastodon is the only place where I don’t get triggered, and instead get inspired and/or informed.

Good moderation, no bots, no fascists, no “famous, because stupid” idiots. Just a nice bunch of people sharing cool, interesting shit. I absolutely love it.

Uff, imagine getting news from a rightwing nutjob owned social network. Big yikes.

I don’t understand. Mastodon has implemented global search a while ago. If I type “Steve” in the search bar, I get Steves from all sorts of places, not only from my instance.

Or are you talking about some sort of “contacts scan” implementation?

“That dude downvoted a cute cat pic, get 'im!”

Do you guys not tuck it in your sock?

Yeah, quantity over quality right here. If my favourite game doesn’t run on Linux, Linux is dead to me. Even if I had 5 favourite games and 1 doesn’t work, it’s still dead.

So for a lot of people it’s either 100% or it might as well not exist.

Not moving is easier than moving.

If I’m making an account and potentially moving to a whole new SaaS ecosystem, I might wanna know if what’s going on.

Imagine moving to a new email address, informing every single person about your new email, and then the company goes under. Or starts displaying ads. Etc., etc.

Is this am honest question, or a drive-by downvote “get fucked” comment?

Same. I’m really rooting for them to stick it to the big internet usurpers. And they are doing a stellar job so far.

I’m just really can’t get excited about companies offering free stuff, that costs money to run. Stepped on that rake one too many times.

Well, userbases tend to grow.

If it wasn’t sustainable, I think we’d have noticed by now.

Exactly the opposite.

Yes, but the root of the question is whether this is sustainable, or will it get shittified, when “too many” people jumps on the free tier.

Will it get more expensive for the paid tier?
Are they going to get rid of the free tier?
???

Yes, but how many people can these contributors support?