No ads, no trackers, no prompts to get you to spend $8 a month for a premium version - Mastodon has been welcoming users fleeing Twitter ever since tech billionaire Elon Musk rebranded it as X. However one of Mastadon's biggest advantages has also been something of a headache when it comes to finding and following new users. Unlike X's one-platform-for-all approach, Mastodon uses a decentralized approach, allowing people to pick from a broad range of versions of Mastodon, with each different ins
Is there no equivalent to lemmyverse.net for Mastodon users? Does the sheer number of users make the existence of such a site impractical?
Mastodon users don’t want such a thing, they see things like it as potential vectors for abuse and harassment.
And it’s very centralized approach. IMHO typing in handles is a good approach for a decentralized platform. Also scanning QR codes on a conference instead of exchanging business cards. You don’t need a seperate website for that. And noone wants to browse lemmyverse on a conference just to add someone (the issue they’re obviously trying to solve with that.)
A small, but vocal segment of Mastodon users get very angry when someone creates any account discoverability service beyond what’s built in to Mastodon. They do not speak for everyone.
There are some opt-in directories for finding people by topic.