As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk’s favorite letter “X,” its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

    • TheArstaInventor@kbin.social
      314·
      1 year ago

      Or Kbin! Kbin can do both microblogging and link aggregation/discussion. Tbh departing Twitter users coming to Mastodon, and reddit refugees are brought together on Kbin.

      The “all-in-one” method acomplished by Kbin is a huge feat, especially when it’s built by a single person from scratch (ie; not based on lemmy codebase wise) and still much more ActivityPub compatible.

      Kbin is sadly very underrated imo.

      • Azzu@lemm.ee
        29·
        1 year ago

        I feel that’s a feature of Lemmy to not do both. I don’t care about microblogs. I want the sites that I use to do one thing and do it as well as possible, so I can mix & match what I use, and not see what I don’t want.

        • Number358@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          The thing is, it’s not forced into your feed or anything. If you want to see microblogs, you have to go to the microblogs tab

      • bassomitron@lemmy.world
        251·
        1 year ago

        It needs a mobile app to take off, imo.

        Additionally, since it is just one guy (that I’m aware of), I’m not sure how sustainable it is for him. I believe he’s been surviving off some EU grant and donations, but once the grant runs out and donations slow, the server costs for delivering content to tens of thousands of users every day are going to start being pretty rough to handle. Has he explained what his plan is for long term sustainability?

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            4·
            1 year ago

            There’s a beta sign up form. I got an invite and I was never on the discord. I believe open beta is very soon anyway though.

            • 1chemistdown@kbin.social
              6·
              1 year ago

              I’m on the form. Been on there for a bit. Mostly I like pointing out that an app is being actively developed for kbin, and that I have never used it so I cannot tell you more.

              I think lemmy people should know that @hariette has previously stated that Artemis will work there too. At least, I’m pretty sure they said that. Children have turned my brain to mush and my memory is about as reliable as a 3 year old.