In many ways, Mastodon feels like rewinding the clock on social media back to the early days of Twitter and Facebook. On the consume side, that means that your home feed has no algorithm (this can be disorienting at first).
Practically, it means that you see only what you want to see and only see it linearly. You never wonder “why am I seeing this and how do I make it go away?”. Content can only enter your home feed via your followed tags or handles and the feed is linear like the early days of social media.
Mastodon is cool, and I’d use it more if I could get used to the format. The Lemmy/Reddit forum style is my preference.
I just don’t understand how people find accounts they like to follow.
just follow hashtags you like, that way you’ll see people who post about interesting stuff.
That’s the main reason why I’m half and half on mastodon (besides the terrible user search and onboarding). I believe the way hashtags are implemented in microblogging services is so inorganic, and I prefer having a little help finding cool posts and people through some kinda filter. Bluesky has been a better experience in those aspects for me so far.
A fine brief on mastodon but it hardly “rewound” anything.
The fedi had been around long before mastodon and even facebook.
Look it’s new to a lot of us ok??? 🫣
im sorry you forgot about the rest of the internet.
And you feel this attitude is correct in engaging with people new to the fediverse?
Hope you’re okay.
im genuinely not ok.
the fediverse is worse now than it was a year ago.
So… taking social media to something that existed before Facebook isn’t rewinding?
correct
