Mastodon has hit 2M active monthly users!

I don't. Most of the people on Mastodon seem pretty cool, and honestly I would rather not see half the people I see on twitter.

I never used Twitter but after using Lemmy I fell in love with the Fediverse and created a Mastodon account.

I started following accounts that were on my RSS feed and I’m currently using Mastodon as an RSS on steroids. I may use it more in the future but for now it’s a good start.

I get it, but I've not really managed to get into Mastodon myself. I'm really liking Lemmy so far and have found a lot of great content, but even though I signed up for a mastodon account a loooong time ago I can't seem to get into it? Any tips for finding decent content?

Maybe it's just the type of platform. I've never gotten into twitter either.

Indeed, Twitter and Threads are both awful. Just in different ways.

That’s probably true, it seems to grow and shrink with Twitter controversies.

I was there the first time. It feels different now - people are contributing and having discussions. Certainly a better quality of discourse than any other social media I've used.

Also some FOSS projects and some content creators use it to spread announcement

And NASA posts a lot of astronomy pictures with #astromigration

Some of the "popular twitterers" are also on Mastodon, like @georgetakei@universeodon.com , @stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk (less activity), @neilhimself@mastodon.social

It's more like Twitter. Mastodon is a microblogging platform (people complaining about the smallest slight).

I use it for chatting about game dev and fibre crafts mostly, plus live convos around big events like the Super Bowl or Eurovision. Not sure what it's like for other topics but it's plenty active in those! Even randomly ran into someone irl from the #Eurovision feed, that was pretty fun :D

This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.

And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.

I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There's even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can't be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.

But it wasn't designed this way for whatever reason, i'm sure there's good reasons but it's hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i'm not logged in, even though this "place" is still on Lemmy.