And isn't the domain squatting and exorbitant pricing on ".com" the main reasons why the new TLDs have been released anyway? Once its in their web history, web browsers will just autocomplete the site name in the address bar. Most users will just be linked to Mastodon from other sites, or find it from a web search. Mastodon has a number of issues that could stifle broader adoption, but I can't convince myself that the TLD is really relevant here. com doesn't really mean "commercial" anymore, and is more of a general-purpose TLD now. com since Mastodon is a Patreon-supported FOSS project, and isn't a commercial entity like or. social.Īlso in a sense, it is more accurate for Mastodon to be at a. I find it surprising to assume that users of social networks who have already understood abstract concepts like "like vs retweet" or "like vs share" would find it difficult to understand the difference between. Most non-US users will frequently interact with their country's (and neighboring countries') ccTLDs, like. Most users of the internet have been exposed to TLDs other than ".com". I'm personally not at all attached to the 'mastodon.social' domain (i'm self-hosting my own account on a different instance), but I am somewhat surprised at this perspective on TLDs. To a random user who doesn't really encounter censorship on twitter or care about decentralized/federated networks it's just a sub-par version of Twitter with a worse interface, a sparser social graph and longer handles. On the downsides though there's plenty right on the surface for users: limited users (like all social networks if the people you want to interact with aren't there it's useless), mediocre default layout (the 3 column default doesn't make good use of space and give equal importance to everything cramping the main thing you want to see the toots) and discovery (the main way I've found people to follow on Mastodon? finding them on twitter where I already follow them and seeing they're on Mastodon too).
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That's because going from Twitter to Mastodon is a downgrade in pretty much every concrete way and only an upgrade in less concrete more esoteric terms.įrom most people the main benefits I've seen cited are censorship resistance (how many people encounter significant censorship on twitter today?) and decentralization (which only really matters philosophically, to the user on the site the decentralization gets hidden). Anyway trying to convert people from twitter to mastodon is sorta hard.
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