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Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 13 hours ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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As many users seek alternatives to X, rival social network Mastodon says that its official app downloads are up 47% on iOS.

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko says downloads on Android are also up 17%, while total monthly sign-ups rose approximately 27% to 90,000.

The open-source X rival functions much like its competitor, the site formerly known as Twitter, on the outside. However, unlike the centralized Twitter, Mastodon consists of thousands of different social networks, which are integrated into a web it calls the "fediverse."

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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

I’d love to join them, but most of my friends just didn’t like mastodon. Mostly because the discoverability was horrible. You need to know what instance your friend is on.

I still use it personally, but mostly for OSS dev side of things

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 1 points 1 hour ago

you need to know what domain your friend uses for email if you email them

you need to know your friend's area code if you call or text them

you need to know the password that goes with your username on your computer

not blaming you for your friends struggling with this, just, ugh, how does anyone struggle with this?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

You need to know what instance your friend is on.

of course you need. your friends need to tell you. only they can know. just like with email and IRL cities

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, it's just like e-mail addresses, I really don't understand the difficulty. Yes technically if I want to e-mail joe smith, I need to know his address, including what mail provider he uses. Which is why when I ask for his e-mail address he tells me "Joesmith@gmail.com". and not just joesmith.

[–] muelltonne@feddit.org 10 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, I really don't understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that's it. You're on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.

[–] macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 11 hours ago

The weird thing is that it doesn't matter what instance/server your friends are on. If they follow you, they'll get all your posts in their feed. The best advice I can give anyone starting out on Mastodon is to follow tags instead of people in order to surface interesting posts, then you can follow people as they come up on feeds.