Personal Response: For me, it’s mainly that I can’t find or verify that accounts I have found are run by the entity I intended to follow…not saying I’m pro-blue checkmark, but checks are a thing.
When many tech folks began moving to Mastodon, I also decided to kick the tires to see what all the buzz is about. But I got tired of sifting through unrelated toots from people to find technically relevant ones.
Now, I know proper search support will never be added to Mastodon, so I don't plan to use it. I understand their reasons for it, but it's not for me.
Thankfully twitter for other topics I am interested in seems largely untouched.
Also:
* very few interesting accounts from Twitter are available on Mastadon * the “Elon bad” tribe who spend their time on Mastadon moaning about Elon and his companies.
For me it was the opposite, since a lot of Tech folks I followed moved over.
Folks I follow for IR/Politics and Linguistics still seem around. So, my twitter consumption has tilted away from Tech to those topics.
I want an algorithmic timeline, but I want one that works for me and not for the bottom line and KPIs of the company.
What I miss are the variety of users on the former that aren't on the latter. That's the only real difference between the social media services I use a lot and those I rarely use. The people and ther work makes it valuable or not valuable.
> For me, it’s mainly that I can’t find or verify that accounts I have found are run by the entity I intended to follow…not saying I’m pro-blue checkmark, but checks are a thing.
> Name the key feature or shortlist of features that is currently missing from Mastadon that if added would cause you to fully-migrate or dramatically increase usage?
I am politically-moderate (from a US viewpoint), but any instance that is remotely right-wing is blacklisted on the several Mastodon instances I've checked, effectively shunning them from the Fediverse. I personally enjoy reading stuff that challenges my beliefs.
Another thing that keeps me from Mastodon, is that when I do occasionally checked my rather curated list, it's still just a bunch of complaining. Complaining about Elon, Twitter, about political events, etc.
Ironically, and despite Elon's best efforts at destroying Twitter, I find it much more diverse and useful. Much of the whining has disappeared and, for the most part, I'm getting better content. That said, I question how much longer Twitter will exist and/or be relevant.
PS: Feel free to recommend me tips/follows.
How does this work in reality? Couldn't I just put runjake.com and github.com/runjake in my profile and get verified as you? There has to be more steps than this...
I've made similar comments on other posts here... along those same lines, and got hell for it.
Well, mofo's, the Twitter Files happened and proved a BUNCH of what I was saying was true. A little bit of vindication.
Nevertheless, just about every mastodon instance has a web address. For instance https://mastodon.social
On verification you can verify to a url.