I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that’s being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it’s hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?
I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that’s being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it’s hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?
I guess I don’t understand the mastodon/twitter style feed, I’ve always found that I couldn’t seem to get a feed interesting enough to come back to.
This is one reason (among many, sadly) that people abandoned or never bothered with Mastodon, and chose Bluesky instead. e.g. the latter has a “Catch Up” feed, for the most popular posts from the last 24 hours (so full of AOC stuff today:-). I check this occasionally throughout the week now, even without having an account there, to know what’s going on.
But I vastly prefer the (Threadi-)Verse style of Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed. For comments, I love how they are sortable in terms of popularity of reception, rather than having to scroll endlessly through the list until you arbitrarily decide to stop. And for posts, grouped by community, although PieFed offers categories that bridge those together. So if you want News, on X/Bluesky/Mastodon I suppose you’d have to use an appropriate hashtag or follow a news-type account, while on the Verse (especially PieFed’s categories of communities) it’s just all right there together.
Something cool to note is there’s an interface for Mastodon called Phanpy with a Catch Up feature.
It allows for a more granular look at posts from the past from what I gather.
@fediverse@lemmy.world
This is actually the beauty of the fediverse to me.
Anyone with the know-how (or will to learn) can fork some code and start implementing changes they want from their service. It’s always been one of the biggest draws of *nix for me (and FOSS in general). I love the really granular control of being able to configure pretty much every setting or feature to the users liking.
But do you need an account?
And can it grab content from other instances?
If not, Bluesky will continue to win:-(, but if so, then this should be integrated into the main branch ASAP and the word gotten out, to help keep people fleeing from X but offering a better (FOSS) alternative to Bluesky!:-)
No need for another account, since it’s log in via your Mastodon account.
As I understand it, it’s a more feature-rich alternative frontend (think like Alexandrite/Photon for Lemmy), so it’s grabbing content in the sense that any ActivityPub instance does so. So…Yes? Unless you meant in a different way.
@fediverse@lemmy.world
It sounds like “maybe” and “no”.
The Bluesky “Catch Up” feed you can view as a guest, entirely anonymously without needing to createna Bluesky account first. This makes it more like Lemmy or Reddit or Mastodon, and unlike Facebook or X or Ticktock where account creation is mandatory. But if you need a Mastodon account - as your link seems to suggest - then that acts as a barrier to people checking it out prior to deciding whether to join or not, e.g. it doesn’t create a “welcoming” environment.
And Bluesky is centralized, so it doesn’t even need to pull in content from other instances, whereas Mastodon does, and unless someone has done the work for you to subscribe to something (I don’t use Mastodon so I don’t know what this would need to be: a person’s account?), it won’t be on the instance, by design.
In short, the Bluesky “Catch Up” feed just works, instantly, right away, with no extra steps needed, whereas s your link needs creation of an account, which requires first deciding on an instance, and that instance having decided to install that optional software component, and then you have to use the special link to choose that alternative front-end client, and then you need to… on and on it goes, by which point the person has long ago already switched to Bluesky.
I’m not trying to be a dick here, just explaining that there are reasons that people choose to use the products that WORK for them, yes even Reddit, and choose to avoid products that require
installation of Arch Linux btwadditional effort, like Mastodon.I follow where you’re coming from.
I can see the perks to the Bluesky option, but given it’s centralized, venture capital funded (and they’re already trying to figure out monetization), and so forth, I’m personally not inclined to rely on much related to it.
However, I’m very aware of the hurdles the option I shared present to those unfamiliar with all of this, and why they’d choose otherwise. Then again, we’re here using this stuff, I’m posting from a microblogging instance (Sharkey) to you, and so my posts are also indirectly for others on other microblogging instances (like those using Mastodon).
For anyone these replies may reach on a Mastodon instance, using Phanpy is much simpler. It’s just going to Phanpy.social, logging in with their info, and they’re set to use it. Much like someone on Lemmy can go to Phtn.app and give Photon a try.
All that said it would be preferable if there was a guest accessible version to Phanpy (or any similar catch up-style service for fediverse stuff), without a doubt.
@fediverse@lemmy.world
I agree. My brief Twitter usage was following bars, restaurants, and music venues to see happy hour specials and upcoming events.
Yeah I never cared for the format either.