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what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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microblogging is something used on a much more personal level while i think forum style social media is mostly for looking for answers and posting things you do, but microblogging social media sites are for that too. also, this is not meant to be offensive, but i think that since mastodon has been in the works for like a long time, it looks more polished than modern websites, so that can be an advantage it has

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I have absolutely zero interest in participating in any kind of social media that isn't an "anonymous forum." I have no interest in following particular individuals; I'm really only interested in having discussions with random internet users that share common interests. I used PhpBB instances, IRC, and before that BBS systems, and I'm really just looking for the same kind of experience.

So I will never use Mastodon; I think it's a fantastic alternative to Xitter, but the format just doesn't interest me in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ditto. On top of that, I could not get into the tiny, tiny width of the "Twitter experience" with their web site. I don't need mobile width pages on desktops.

Responsive Web Design... use it, implement it, never forget it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Is the 4 column layout not standard on Mastodon?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I think I'm very similar to you

I want to have a feed of topics I'm interested in, very rarely do I care about a specific individual, and the case that I do it's probably because they're a local restaurant or something like that, basically all I use Instagram for is a glorified photo menu for food I might want on a given weekend

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

phpBB was the best.

The old forums I frequent have all seen their activity drop, which sucks.

I prefer the smaller forums centred around common interests. I made a load of friends through those forums.

I quit reddit recently and it occurred to me that after 10 years, I didn't make a single friend on reddit.