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> The fact that you have chronological timelines

Twitter also has chronological timelines, there’s a button on the top right.

> The fediverse is small compared to Twitter user base, but with millions of users there's plenty to explore and engage with.

…no, there isn’t. The population mainly consists of cartoon child porn artists and enthusiasts (pawoo.net), tech people (official and semi-official instances), small groups of queer people (on smaller closed instances), and that’s mainly it (from what I’ve seen). Engagement on smaller instances seems to be very low, with most toots being 0-1 likes and almost no comments posted on them.

> And there's better netiquette in general.

No, mob/clique mentality from Twitter is already there (but even more amplified by the federation aspect, since instances can ban other instances) The reason Mastodon doesn’t have that much drama is simply because there aren’t enough people there, and I predict a mass migration to Mastodon will be accompanied by the most dramatic controversies.



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