I assume this is mastodon.social. Small compared to twitter, but it’s progress.
I think that whole Fediverse gained, not only Mastodon. Besides all shitty things happening, I’m delighted by recent Fediverse gain and it makes me positive for the future of this world.
The norwegian mastodon instance https://snabelen.no has also increased it’s userbase dramatically. From having 100 active users to 250 active users. I don’t know how many new accounts has been created. I have also seen a new norwegian instance being created with 6 registered users.
nice
Holy shit
I started to use Mastodon recently. I’m sorry if I sound grumpy, but… that’s a hell of an awful user interface. Basic features seem to be missing. I wanted to collect some topics I’m interested in… and you can’t do that. You have to type in the hashtag of your interest every single time. You can’t mix multiple hashtags for an overview. Simply put: You can’t follow hashtags. That’s a feature that is discussion since more than 5 years. I honestly don’t get it.
Of course you can pin and follow hastags in Mastodon.
- Search for a hashtag (e.g. #web in the search bar).
- Click on the hashtag (#web here, as an example).
- You will see a column #web open in the web interface at the far end.
- You can pin this hashtag column by clicking on the three settings leavers at the top of the hashtag column, then selecting Pin.
Thanks for the reply. I knew about that workaround. That’s only works with the “advanced view”, and the user interface for combining hashtags is atrocious. You always have to have one permanent column for that, so you maybe can make a few of them before your screen is overloaded horizontally.
It kinda works, but it’s not a good solution.
It may be worth thinking about how/where could this be implemented in the simple interface… as a future improvement.
I have a couple of hashtags pinned in a column (desktop browser), so can see any of those topics as they are posted. For me this is actually better than Twitter has?
That’s a problematic workaround only possible with the “advanced view”.
Well not “problematic” as it actually works great, and I’ve never had to touch it. But yes, I’m not sure all the mobile app clients have implemented this option, which is why I mainly use the desktop browser. Having such a “watchlist” is essential for me for monitoring topics of interest. I prefer to follow topics, than profiles.
A very small percentage of that number will stay and be active.
Why? Those are accounts, not views.
Partly cause people expect an exact Twitter which mastodon doesn’t really aim to be. Some people will enjoy the organic growth of connections others won’t. Plus lack of feature parity with twitter and the complications of a federated timeline and a local timeline. People in general dont have the patience to try and learn something new.
Exactly, people fleeing twitter will find something that is definitely not twitter and they will bounce.
I say that as someone who likes what mastodon is and don’t want it to become twitter.
they will all fly away when they will see the amount of anime girl avatar and ostentatious non-gender presentation. :)
