I use twitter and I really like the furry art community on there. I also like Mastodon or related ActivityPub services.

Due to recent events lots of people search for alternatives and I feel just very frustrated see all those artists looking for Zucks Threads or Jacks Bluesky when Mastodon is right there, without a chance of a twitter situation ever happening again. They seem to avoid Mastodon like cats avoiding water.
What have we done wrong, and how can we make it better.

  • Alexmitter@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    The thing is, most of them are looking to Threads and BlueSky because that is where the majority of normie non technical people are going to go.

    I would agree when Mastodon would it not already make it so easy for normies to join.
    If you can make a mail account, you can make a mastodon account.

    But mastodon also suffers because the second biggest instance, pawoo.net l, leaves many people with a bad experience since they host rampant amounts of pedophilic content and fetishists galore and a lot of mastodon instances defederate from it because of it’s peoblems.

    This is really a problem, not just because pawoo exists but some friends of mine really enjoy the japanese drawing community and they are actually all very active on pawoo, which is inaccessible from western mastodon. It leaves a double sour taste, not just because of the disgusting content they allow on there but also because people can not follow accounts they liked on twitter. But Pawoo won’t stop, what they do is not illegal in Japan and the Japanese just do not care what westerners think. They do not care about being de-federated from the world.

    But Pawoo should not effect the furry art community, or does it?