I've been on Mastodon for over a year and the content simply isn't there. Several of the people that I follow on Twitter have tried moving or duplicating to Mastodon. They've had a fraction of the visibility and engagement from commenters that they would get on Twitter. Invariably after a few months they have essentially given up on it as a primary medium. For me the discoverability is essentially non-existent, which I don't think is helped by the idea of it being based around instance-local communities, which have no meaning when you're looking at something like Twitter.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My experience has been better. User engagement is much higher per follower and the discussions don’t devolve. They’re much more useful and/or interesting. KPIs don’t measure everything.

[–] ericjmorey@discuss.online 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Many people are most interested in profit as their only KPI and mastodon puts up a lot of hurdles for those people.

[–] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the best platform for the profit driven, and I much prefer it that way.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This exactly. I was saying that as a user, not a creator. I make money away from social media so I don’t care to bring that to my personal space.

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