The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you’d expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there’s no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call “tweets”—let’s face it, it’s a bit of a silly name that’s difficult to take seriously).
“Tweets” can’t be covered by a content warning. There’s no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There’s no way to set up your own instance, and you’re basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there’s no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can’t de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn’t Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn’t find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
@ajsadauskas
Re bookmark feature: Twitter has bookmarks but it’s so unintuitive in placement that most people never find it. (I consider this worse than not having it at all.)
Not intending to be splainy, just I use them and I constantly see people say the feature doesn’t exist. It’s so poorly advertised.
(It’s under the share menu)
@forestfae @ajsadauskas I actually use them! But then forget they’re there and have to go searching again. But give me time—I’ve only been on there 14 years, and that’s nowhere near long enough to understand why the design is as it is.
It’s also horrifying how few people there know there’s a chronological view, so they’re not even able to see the tweets they want to.
@forestfae @ajsadauskas
yes, i use/used bookmarks all the time on birdsite but when i got onto mastodon web interface, was just so pleased to see the button sitting there under each toot 😍
@ajsadauskas
I don’t even know what the point is of having the feature when it’s this poorly implemented.
@forestfae @ajsadauskas I use them quite heavily, but yeah the placement is very much counter-intuitive.
@forestfae @ajsadauskas Also you can’t remove just ONE bookmark, so either a bookmark you made by mistake is there forever or you have to delete the whole list.
@irina @forestfae @ajsadauskas You can remove individual bookmarks by clicking the share symbol and then choosing “remove tweet from bookmarks”, but that’s not very intuitive either.
@chrpistorius @irina @forestfae @ajsadauskas
I use the bookmarks, but had no idea, this is the way to delete one.
This is the most counterintuitive method, anybody could ever have come up with.
@chrpistorius @forestfae @ajsadauskas Good to know in case I ever to back to actually use twitter again (rather than reading and very occasionally replying, what I’m doing now)