I used to not understand it either. Now I understand that for normal people, it is an RSS reader where you just get notified when the sources you follow have something to say. For celebrities and organizations it is an advertising platform where they can remind their followers of their existence and tell them what they are doing.
Pretty much just Lemmy.
I never understood the attraction of twitter, so mastodon doesn’t appeal to me either.
Exactly how I feel about Twitter. I get the appeal but it just ain’t for me
Removed by mod
https://github.com/crimera/piko
A link that’s not a direct link to an apk for those of us who don’t know what the hell we’d be installing.
I mean, I go on twitter daily, but only to follow artists, and, like… game devs for short form news updates.
Not whatever… most people apparently use it for.
I also use userscripts that prevent the ‘for you’ tab from ever showing up or being selected.
I used to not understand it either. Now I understand that for normal people, it is an RSS reader where you just get notified when the sources you follow have something to say. For celebrities and organizations it is an advertising platform where they can remind their followers of their existence and tell them what they are doing.