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[–] 13 points 8 months ago (12 children)

What is W?

Seems like it would be easier for the moderators there to collaborate with a threadiverse community

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The EU tripping. They are getting off of twitter and want to create a new one named W. Total stupidity. They should leverage on mastodon

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/w-emerges-as-x-alternative-aimed-at-combating-systemic-disinformation

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  • [–] -5 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Mastodon is bad and doesn't replace twitter. No algorithmic feed = doomed to fail. Threadiverse somehow works only cause upvotes and comments create decent sorting metrics for browsing all subs.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    What does "fail" mean? Twitter's algorithm is for entertainment. Mastodon is designed for discussion. Both can exist just fine, but you can't have a platform that does both well.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    What does "designed for discussion" even mean. It has Twitter UI/UX and mirrors most of functionality. It's not stackexchange.

    It just happens that mastodon has more IT people now cause other people don't eat the complexity. I've watched people try and be disappointed.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    When i said "designed for discussion" I meant that Mastodon posts are displayed in chronological order instead of sorted by engagement.

    I agree that would result in a commercial failure, but Mastodon is not commercial, not does it have an obligation to grow. So it seems to be working very well for the people who do use it.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    After seeing piefed, I think they can divert resources to create an algorithmic feed for mastodon if they want to. Except I don't know how much they are willing to do that. European projects are riding on half anger and half nationalism, not the perfect time for rational thought.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like it would be easier for the moderators there to collaborate with a threadiverse community

    We've tried several times to collaborate with the subreddit mods in the past, they never wanted to have a pinned post referring to any Threadiverse community.

    They were either power tripping or afraid Reddit would remove them, well seems like it's still happening anyway

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