Barnes Tech
Today was a bit of a personal tipping point for my personal use of Mastodon. I have always been a bit of a timeline completionist, regardless the platform, which is why I use apps like Tweetbot and now Ivory (currently in alpha testing).
Today was the first time where I opened up Twitter and Mastodon, and actually had more content to read through in Mastodon than Twitter.
Regardless of people’s thoughts on whether Mastodon is good or not (there are plenty of opinions both ways), it all doesn’t really matter too much if no one ends up using it. For me, I really liked Google Plus when that came out back in the day. I thought they had a lot of fantastic ideas that were better, and still are better, than any other social media out there today. But it didn’t particularly matter because people never used it, so it never gained traction anywhere.
Mastodon is a little different. The nature of the way it’s built probably means that it will never go away, but if people don’t use it, it may stall out and never really grow in to anything.
So far I really like it. A good 3rd party app dramatically improves the experience in my opinion, so I hope more of them become available more widely soon.
Who knows if it means anything, but for my timelines, I thought it was quite interesting.