“You should tweet that” becomes “you should X that”

"You should X-create" that

I should X that sounds like I should delete/close that. How apt.

The little blue bird on every shop window, website, and business card becomes a stylized letter that, hopefully, doesn’t look so threatening on the next iteration?

Haha, I know the most appropriate iteration, a red background with the X in a white circle.

Its a terrible rebrand that pretty much comes because of Elon's impulses, or in other words, for shits and giggles. Regardless of this hilarious trashing of such a powerful brand, I'll have fun calling tweets "xeets" for a good week.

Follow me on ten.

Destroying the brand and ruining twitter was always the goal. There's a good reason why Saudi Arabia fronted half of the bill....

you should X that

You should x-crete that

Xing is short for kissing IE XOXO. So instead of tweeting we are now kissing!

“Hey, check out this X video”

Jamie Kennedy's show is about to become relevant again. You've been X'd!

He's just a fan of Laurie Anderson. Give him some slack!

Let X = X

He's clearly laying the groundwork to sell it to Alphabet (Google's parent company). /s

Every time that happens the fedi retains a good chunk of users. There's significant and stable growth throughout.

believe it or not its more likely they straight up ripped off U+1D54F MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK CAPITAL X:

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absolutely no creativity. at least threads drew the ring in @ clockwise instead of the usual anticlockwise

Can't wait for Lemmy Enhancement Suite.

Because LES is more.

Or Kbin! Kbin can do both microblogging and link aggregation/discussion. Tbh departing Twitter users coming to Mastodon, and reddit refugees are brought together on Kbin.

The "all-in-one" method acomplished by Kbin is a huge feat, especially when it's built by a single person from scratch (ie; not based on lemmy codebase wise) and still much more ActivityPub compatible.

Kbin is sadly very underrated imo.

I just checked too. And if you close popup it takes you do another login page (also with an X) but that one can't be closed. So apparently there is no way to browse Twitter without an account now, which you could before.

People always used to claim that getting banned from twitter meant you were cut off from important information. It's highly debatable that there was any important information on twitter. That aside it wasn't really true you were cut off entirely, you could still browse tweets, just couldn't post when banned. Now it seems being banned does mean you're cut off from reading it.

nice

Wow That is a ugly logo 🤢

God I hate that. It's confusing on mobile

Redditors tend to be more technically inclined than Twitter users

This used to be true, but Reddit has been mainstream for years now. Today's average Redditor is likely pretty similar to the average Twitter user.

Plus there's some staying power to posts on here

I'm replying to what you wrote 10 hours ago. My local feed would be a lot of shit before I ever saw this

And it's 100% relevant to the area of content I wanted to read. Same if I went to a gaming or news related group

But in the other hand lemmy seems much more mature than lemmy.

Don't get me wrong, the experience has been rapidly growing in recent weeks thanks to the proliferation of third party apps 👍 But Mastodon's first party experience feels solid and their new official app just blends in any mainstream app.

Interesting. That is a good point

I hate to correct you, but it's a billionaire baboon bills brawl.

Microsoft also as a trademark for X.

Wait so the cage match is still a possibility?

The Mets own it too?

Just googled X, musk isn't on the first page of results, absolute melon of a man.

And then you add the lead actor to the search terms and it gets even worse

Well, it sure sounds like X is delivering users to Mastodon.

He wants something like WeChat that does everything.

There is an account called Fedi Follows on Mastodon that shares accounts according to their topics. Hope it helps.

What I did in the very beginning:

• don't worry about the instance that you are on. My server is quite generic and is meant to be a simple entrypoint to the fediverse, not a "community in itself".
• Go to the mastodon directory to find the list of servers based on interests. fosstodon is one for FOSS enthusiasts, beekeeping is for those interesting in gardening, mountains.social is for those that like hiking, etc. The important thing here is to find servers that are not huge, but that have an active userbase.
• Now, the real trick: for all these servers you found that could be interesting, you go browse at the federated timeline. This will give not only the activity from people in the server, but you will also see what they are following, boosting, etc. To me this was a way to find not just interesting people, but who the interesting people are following as well.
• Be very generous when browsing these timelines, and follow as many as you can possibly can. During the first week, try to add 50 a day.
• Follow hashtags. This will also make your timeline more lively and will bring different people who might be interesting to you.
• Write an intro post, and pin it to your profile. Usually pinned profiles are always visible between servers, so it will make it easy for people to interact with you.
• (Somewhat controversial, but I do it) If you have people that you like to follow on Twitter, follow them on Mastodon as well via a BirdSite mirror. You won't be able to do it from the larger instances, but if you join a more chill instance (like mine ;)) it should be fine.
• Evangelize: if you have friends on Twitter, ask them to join as well. Most Mastodon servers have a way to let you send invites to others.

When you start getting the feeling that you are getting overwhelmed, it's the time to cull down the list. Feel free to unfollow any person or hashtag that you think is too noisy or not really interesting.

You need to follow hashtags but primary groups. You will find groups boosting toots about your topics. It's the first accounts to follow then you will find others.

It's not that hard. People have to keep in mind, it's not Twitter and so it works differently.

It helps if you can find a half-dozen people involved in something you like to follow at the start. Other than that, try joining a mid-sized (~1,000-3,000 users) Mastodon server based around a hobby, interest, or social group you're a part of. Most Mastodon clients allow you to keep a column open for the people you follow as well as the people on the "Local Timeline" who are a part of your server.

It's a new social network. If you see someone pop up who's made a pithy post or two, give 'em a follow. If they're not working out a week later, un-follow them. Don't feel afraid to follow a ton of people when you first get started to liven up your feed until you find a good circle of folks.

That’s kind of the problem I think. I was able to find like 2 people there I want to follow. Lemmy is going to be far more successful at displacing its alternative because all the communities you’d want to subscribe to are here.

I wrote since stuff to help new Mastodon users: https://babylon4.com/mastodon

I joined up before you could subscribe to hashtags, so my approach was:

1. Read my local instance feed and click on content that interested me.
2. Checked the users that made the interesting content to see if they had more.
3. If they did, followed.

Nowadays I would add this step:

0. Subscribe to hashtags on topics I'm interested in and follow people who regularly contribute good material to them.

how did you find people to follow?

Find tags that you like; follow the tags.

Eventually you'll find people posting in those tags that you end up liking; follow them.

And repeat. =)

I mainly used it for news till the rate limiting but i just followed news sources and have since found users to follow.

I joined via fosstodon.org much better recommendations

I used a site that let's you follow the same accounts on Masto as you did on Twitter.

You're not wrong, but consider that people who justified sticking around for some reason or another might leave because the brand change (to a name that is so brain dead even a little offensive) finally hits home for them that it isn't going to be the same.

A brand name change is about the single most overt thing you can do to send the message that a product isn't going to be the same. And when that happens, people tend to look at the recent trends for that product to get an idea of what to expect. The recent trends for Twitter happen to be right-wing echo chamber.

So yeah, the people who were going to leave have largely already left. But this brand change is going to be effective at galvanizing those who remain.

It's a "final straw" situation. No individual straw broke the back of the proverbial camel. One straw after another was placed atop it until finally the back broke. It's not the final straw that broke said back, but the load of all the straws including the final that did it.

So they're not necessarily quitting because of the name change. They're quitting because of everything else plus the name change. That was the thing that pushed the go/no-go decision into "go".

Maybe because this new decision is so unbelievably idiotic either it is the last straw or maybe some people realize twitter x is lost cause? Idk.

I don’t like twitter nor Elon but why would someone leave a platform because they would change their name?

Twitter has been around for so long, many are attached to it on an emotional level. It's older than my eldest niece; she's known about it since she could memorize the damn word.

So as dumb as it is that THIS is what pushes people to leave, I'm glad more are leaving regardless.

Quick, someone create a Mastodon Frontend Twatter that uses different logos than X yet seems oddly familiar...

He didn’t want to buy the company. So, he’s turning it into a pet project.

That's a good point, and one that had not occurred to me. For all we know, he's already mentally written off the $44 billion as a loss and is just having fun with it, with no expectation of success.

That would explain a lot.

It would be hilarious if a random got that domain and threw a mastodon instance on it. They'll probably keep it though lol

Facebook already tried to do the "everything app" and it failed in the US.

And Mark Zuckerberg is a million times more competent at business than Elon.

Yeah, you know what those have in common? They all started providing one service more successfully than anyone else on that market and slowly accreted functionality in the absence of a popular local dedicated service. Twitter is not that, was never going to be that, and it is not becoming that, certainly not with a skeleton crew. The same goes for Reddit, which was certainly bigger than people think but not big enough to pull that move. It may have grown into a OF alternative specifically, just from having a foot on that business already, but that's about it.

We do have one of those "everything apps" here, though. It's called Facebook. Terminally online people don't realize, but there are millions of people right now buying and selling used stuff, dating, watching videos and exchanging business information over it, even without accounting for the rest of the Meta ecosystem.

That makes sense until you realize he already made a company called x.com that failed, and it's the source of his fortune

If Elon is truly able to turn The App Formerly Known As Twitter into an ‘everything app’ that’s actually worth using...

That opening conditional (emphasis added) is carrying a whole lot of weight...

A bunch of people discussed in another thread why that doesn't make sense: https://iusearchlinux.fyi/comment/976118

For 44 billion, he could have started a rival platform from scratch and paid people $100 each as a sign up bonus. That would be for over 400 million customers.

Musk’s line of thought here isn’t completely asinine. Let’s not deny that superapps like LINE, WeChat, Alipay, Taobao and others exist, and absolutely dominate the digital landscape in their own regions.

It isn't a bad thought, but it should be quickly apparent that an American equivalent might not work. The West isn't the same as those regions. There's a complex interplay of culture, history, and the current market scene. A good business person would recognize the possibility that it might not work and just do exploratory work. Musk in his arrogance thinks he can make it happen regardless

How many people would trust Elon Musk with their banking details? I doubt enough to make the $44 billion worth it.

and instead of tweeting, people are now x-creting

Unfortunately this is not the fault of mastodon, its community or tech behind it as much as ... nobody from twitter actually moving to mastodon. There aren't many big influencers, companies or content creators on mastodon so your feed is just random people talking about random stuff. The lack of algorithm doesn't help either since someone's random showerthoughts have the same chance of showing up for you as does something trending that you'd actually be interested in.

One idea is to browse the hashtag #introduction and follow people whose introductions sound promising to you. The hashtag #FediTips might also be useful. If you want to follow scholars and scientists, there is this list grouped by discipline: https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon And in general, you can follow hashtags on Mastodon, e.g. "#bloomscrolling" for pictures of plants.

@Squidquid Option #1: Search for a hashtag. If it exists, and it's halfway active, follow it. No, I'm not kidding you, you can do that on Mastodon.

Option #2: the people section on fediverse.info.

Option #3: No matter which instance you're on, go to mastodon.social with your Web browser and search it for interesting hashtags. This may reveal to you more people who are interested in those topics/write about those topics.

Also, if you want to learn more about the Fediverse beyond Lemmy (and beyond Mastodon, for that matter), go follow fediversenews@venera.social. It's a public forum on Friendica. You'll learn soon enough what Friendica is.

It depends on what you are into. If you like anime (for example) you could try something broad like # (anime) [no spaces and such] & then see what other hashtags people are using from there. The same with music or something. That's what I do at least. There might be better ways but a lot of times people are into similar stuff and that can lead down different paths as well.

Sportsbots.xyz host mirrors of the popular sports writers. I follow thurrott from twit apple insider and 9 to 5 max. Tech meme is good for tech news headlines. I fill krebs on security as well. It’s better than twitter because it’s chronological and not algorithm fed

It takes some effort to build up and shape your Home feed on Mastodon. One good starting point is to search for hashtags that you're interested in, like #sports or #gamedev or whatever. It may take some trial and error to find the most popular hashtags being used in your topics of interest. Once you find the hashtags with stuff that's interest to you, follow those hashtags so you will continue to discover new people and posts in those topics in your Home feed. Once you find interesting people posting in those hashtags, follow them. The name of the game on Mastodon is to follow, follow, follow. I've heard it said that your feed will get pretty good when you follow around 200 people or so.

I'm interested to know which accounts to follow for lemmy news. Seems like a natural place to go when having trouble connecting like I did with fmhy before and shit just works recently.

clever

You mean, are we a part of the same Fediverse? Yes. I’m actually replying to you right now from my Mastodon account! Still not over how cool that is!

But yeah, there’s a character limit. The instance I’m from is donphan.social. Our character limit is 1,008.

I tried Mastodon and failed. Lemmy is different IMO in that you can freely access, write on and read all lemmy communities from any Lemmy instance (and apparently from Mastodon). On Masto you're quite siloed-in, can't follow "local" from a thematic instance with an account on another (and in Lemmy you can follow thematic communities from all around the threadiverse), people won't see your content unless they either actively follow you or read the local/global feed. Curating feed is a necessary effort and not too easy one since you only get to follow individual users.