Mastodon needs a way of automatically populating your feed for new users, like the “All” button does here on Lemmy if your instance has done the work.
I consider myself somewhat technology literate and I got frustrated/bored after trying on my phone to find popular accounts elsewhere to follow on the smaller instance I signed up on. Still stuck with an empty feed, but mostly out of laziness*. New users don’t stand a chance.
From my limited experience usually it’s because they implode from internal drama. To be human is to be lazy, and most people can’t get past that.
Speaking of dullness why isn’t there a like, comment or retweet counter? Just started trying to check out Mastodon.
They have 2 million active users supposedly, 10 times bigger than Lemmy.
1989 Tianneman square protests
Doesn’t this just mean they’ll make their bot accounts under a more organic/random timeline instead of linearly? The only way it seems you identified it is by the linear nature of the signups.
It’ll change if it gets popular, not everything can have an ultra unique name
Pfft, I’m horny on main 24/7 baby
That’s a good thing, don’t fear it
Should we make a /c/science community and discuss the latest developments?? 😂
I like this comment but in the end this is something most people won’t want, me included, because a decentralized identity would just mean an even better way to track and get yourself doxed for people who want to remain unknown to rulers of city states
Then use Tor if you’re truly scared
Good luck building a performant version.
Although I’ve always wondered why someone hasn’t built a Tor version of Lemmy/mastodon yet… imagining no home instance control, you’re just donating hosting to a truly decentralized website that nobody controls but anyone can post to. It would be the ultimate dissent tool.
I keep considering going back to college for hard sciences, you give me hope.