Tried Mastodon for a few weeks, but it just seemed to be people talking at themselves. Despite claims that one needs to follow people & tags and that nothing is pushed, there was so much stuff I wasn’t following in my feed.
Also found the whole hashtag system to be incredibly frustrating. Their inclusion in comments breaks up the flow, to search (or block) you have to guess what things could be tagged as, then too many people tag stuff unnecessarily, so you effectively get masses of spam when trying to follow a topic.
On top of that, strongly disliked the need to follow strangers - it feels creepy & weird to me, no matter how interesting their posts are.
Oh and the rate of reblogging of very trite stuff was doing my nut in. Fine, if it is something you believe your followers will want to read, but otherwise it is more spam in their feed
Tried Mastodon for a few weeks, but it just seemed to be people talking at themselves. Despite claims that one needs to follow people & tags and that nothing is pushed, there was so much stuff I wasn’t following in my feed.
Also found the whole hashtag system to be incredibly frustrating. Their inclusion in comments breaks up the flow, to search (or block) you have to guess what things could be tagged as, then too many people tag stuff unnecessarily, so you effectively get masses of spam when trying to follow a topic.
On top of that, strongly disliked the need to follow strangers - it feels creepy & weird to me, no matter how interesting their posts are.
Oh and the rate of reblogging of very trite stuff was doing my nut in. Fine, if it is something you believe your followers will want to read, but otherwise it is more spam in their feed
So yeah, microblogs really aren’t for me.