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Not sure if this is the right place but I need to get off Twitter/X, I would love to use Mastodon but the hurdle feels bigger than Reddit to Lemmy. The Mastodon client feels uncomfortable to me for some reason, and I guess unlike reddit/lemmy where you have a group of people talking about specific topics, I am interested in following specific people on Twitter - a fraction of whom are on Mastodon. I don't want to support Musk or his platform but I'm struggling to find a replacement.

I guess if he starts charging for it the decision will be made for me 😅

Ich hoffe, dass sie ihm neue EU-Beitrittsgespräche nicht zugesagt haben 😬

He'll have a long wait

This shouldn't be something you need to do with super high frequency. Do you know what is causing the blockage?

Threads

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I think the answers you will get from users who are on lemmy will tend to be positive 😁

Mich macht es auch glücklich. Ich bin selbst kein Entwickler, kann also nichts dazu beitragen, aber es ist echt beeindruckend wie schnell alle Aspekte (Backend, Apps, Inhalte) hier besser werden.

You could transcode your downloads and store them at a lower quality if you want to save space. It is extra steps though.

It's a valid question and I understand your point, but it becomes an issue for me when I end up being caught up the a snowball effect and need to use a bad app too. Here in Europe, WhatsApp is an example of something I'd rather not use, but because it's the platform everyone else is on, it's very difficult to avoid. The parallel I see is if Twitter is supplanted not by Mastodon, but by Threads, then that is the place people will gravitate towards and then the privacy friendly version becomes less useful due to lack of users and content.

Of course it is an option to just not use these apps, but the preferably outcome is that I am able to have the nice experience without sacrificing my privacy.

I'm going to vote this up for the discussion, but I don't agree with your perspective.

On the surface you are correct that being able to speak to people who are on Threads would, in theory, be nice. The suspicion is that Meta is going for the EEE strategy. Allowing ourselves to be "embraced" would ultimately be damaging for the platform.

We've just started to move from Reddit to Lemmy and have shown we don't need centralised, corporate-owned channels of communication. I don't think we should stop this direction of travel when it comes to Threads.

• Old reddit redirect
• Reddit enhancement suite

Not sure how much you need these anymore 👀