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As Twitter flounders, Mastodon refreshes its official app for Android users (techcrunch.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemmy.world
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[–] 57 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I really wish more online personalities would move to Mastodon, right now it's hard to justify when most of what I use Twitter for is to follow different online creators and such. And just none of them are moving over yet. It looks like Bluesky is where a lot of them are looking. It's also decentralized, but honestly I'm not a big fan of jumping on another Jack Dorsey project. I don't like ActivityPub as a tech myself and would be more interested in a holepunch kind of approach myself, but honestly it's the most mature decentralized tech there is right now and it seems like the world is moving that way. Just wish the world would move quicker!

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It’s also decentralized, but honestly I’m not a big fan of jumping on another Jack Dorsey project

    Jack Dorsey is the reason why some of these perennially online personalities moved to Bluesky. The AT protocol maybe decentralized but there's no unofficial instances of it yet (afaik).

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm on both, and both vibes are pretty great. I prefer Mastodon simply because the app is superbly made, tiny file size, no trackers etc. Bluesky is a buggy mess right now. Also, 3rd party apps on Mastodon are amazing.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I wouldn't consider another VC money backed app/service anymore no matter how good the tech might be. I hope we all remember the hard lessons from the fiascos from the recent months.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (4 children)

    This brings up my main questions with mastodon and lemmy… who is going to pay the server costs at scale?

    It would be nice if those mechanisms began sooner than later.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    It will need to be by donation and/or sponsorship, systems for which are currently in place for most of the larger instances.

    My hope is to see academia, web hosts, and non-profits involved at some point too. I think the software is just too immature at this early stage to expect much in this regard. Once more advanced safeguards are in place (content filters, admin tools, etc.), it may become more viable from a liability perspective.

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