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Re:Martin Fowler – Current thoughts on social media by lapcat on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:38PM (#38118064)
> When I go on Mastodon, half the posts there are bitching about 'how bad' X is. The engagement on posts is extremely poor as well. No one replies to anything.

That's not my experience at all. Who are you following?

In my niche, Apple platform software development, the community has almost entirely migrated from Twitter to Mastodon, and it's now as active and thriving as ever.

IMO the Mastodon experience is even better than the Twitter experience was, because there are a lot fewer random trolls on Mastodon.

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Re:Martin Fowler – Current thoughts on social media by alexsereno on Thursday November 02, 2023 @02:40PM (#38118096)
Yea mastodon has been totally incredible in my experience following mostly Swift developers. I’d also argue that the slightly higher barrier to entry is more of a feature than a bug since it inherently keeps low effort users out. Lastly I am old enough to remember early Reddit where it was very “technical and confusing” for a lot of people.
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