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Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?


Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

It's shiny, they advertise, put in a money to spread the word. And the onboarding process probably is way easier?! Also back when Mastodon was in the media, it wasn't yet the right time. Now, especially with Musk, it is. And the attention is on Bluesky since that is newer and what's hyped right now.
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in reply to Baessito (casa nova) πŸ‡§πŸ‡·πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ

I wouldn't know, I have a lot of adblockers etc. But it gets to me via word of mouth. And it's been in the media a lot this year. Due to their business decisions, new approach, novelty... That's something they did very well. They also took care building some hype and anticipation with their invite-only period. Mastodon has also been in the news. But that was yesterday's news and I suppose everyone forgets yesterday's news.
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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

it's been better marketed, and people struggle with the concept of federation and picking a server. and I guess the invite-only, artificial exclusivity strat has actually paid off for them initially, unlike for Google+.

also, a matter of culture. I've seen many newcomers complain about how some long time users act as HOA, reminding everyone to act according to the long-standing rules. many people of colour have experience many forms of racist behaviour, too, which has driven some communities away.

oh, and the federation/defederation business sometimes gets way too messy, which [cynic mode on] makes it difficult for people who want their Personal Brandβ„’ to gain as many followers as possible over the entire network.

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in reply to noodlejetski

Language filter in bluesky is much better than Mastodon as well
in reply to moe90

Mastodon relies on users setting the language their post is in manually, so if someone posts in two languages and forgets to switch between them, they don't get filtered out. I know there are some other pieces of software that switch it automatically, I'm fairly sure Calckey automatically recognized the language you were writing in.
in reply to noodlejetski

I already toggle the Mastodon settings to ensure that I got the feeds to the language I want (I want English only) and I still got feeds on different languages such as German and French
in reply to moe90

again, if the person who is making the post doesn't change the setting, it won't get filtered. if they type a message in German but the post's language option is set to English (which I think is the default on some major instances), it won't get filtered out.

you can usually check what their post's setting is by starting writing a reply to them, as the language option of your post will switch to the one they post in.

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in reply to noodlejetski

That is why Mastodon is hard to get mainstream because not everyone wants extra effort to do this. Even, Twitter, threads and bluesky much better to filter their language content
in reply to moe90

I mute a few more non-English accounts each time I use Mastodon
in reply to noodlejetski

people struggle with the concept of federation and picking a server


This is a HUGE reason. I didn't know when I first signed up for Lemmy that I was on what is essentially a tankie instance. I didn't know when I signed up for Pixelfed that I wasn't going to be able to see shit because the first server I signed up for wasn't really federated with anyone and I've mostly given up on it. I still can't see a bunch of stuff on Mastodon without switching through several accounts with no rhyme or reason.

I've said before that I obviously like it here because I'm using the services, but it's not easy. Most people don't know about the fediverse, and most of those that do want to be passive about maintaining their social media. Most of the fediverse is built for nerds.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Bluesky allows me to use my domain as my identity and make my own moderation decisions without having to run my own instance.
in reply to xigoi

I was really impressed by this feature when I signed up recently! It baffles me a little bit to see newspapers and things not taking advantage of it.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I think it’s much more difficult to find people to follow. I personally struggle a lot, and will likely either gave up the micro-blogging system or try another platform. It was great on Twitter before Musk bought it, but since I left, I have yet to find an alternative.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because it pretends to be different to the centralised corporate social media platforms, whilst giving the cohesive experience of a centralised platform
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in reply to Ada

Best answer yet IMO. The cohesive experience is essential to the branding, and low threshold for entry.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

It has an algorithm that puts content in front of you, unlike Mastodon where it only puts what you ask for in your feed. I'm convinced that if Mastodon populated people with low following count's feed with random posts it wouldn't have bled as many users as it did.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Americans love to pretend they are cowboys. In reality they love centralised power and bureaucracy. They are deeply afraid of each other so they flock to platforms that pretend to be for freedom, but is actually highly regulated by centralised power. That’s why they love tech-oligarchs that pretend to be self made geniuses. It allows them to fantasise about freedom to succeed and submit to power at the same time.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I can only assume BlueSky feels more familiar.

Mastodon requires a bit of effort, lacking an algorithm to drive content toward users, so you have to do a bit more yourself.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

They’re venture funded by a crypto company.

The signs of imminent disaster.

Mastodon is clearly the correct choice.

in reply to Intergalactic

Since bluesky is mit licensed, what's to stop a fork if something goes wrong?

what's to stop a activitypub and atproto compatibility?

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

We've had this exact conversation in this community two months ago already, in case you want to back read the comments from back then. Nothing significant has changed

To paraphrase my opinion from back then:
- Easier onboarding, and a familiar, easier UX
- customizable feeds you can subscribe to + starterpacks instantly give you full timelines and people to follow (and followers, if you're in many starter packs)
- better discoverability, and therefore higher engagement
- stacking moderation and excellent security features (e.g. detachable quote boosts, "the nuclear block")
- many users who tried Mastodon first had bad experiences with "HOA"-like behavior and over-enthusiastic mods

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in reply to cholesterol

Home Owners Association a group or people that "polices" neighbors and has a hisyory of doing shady things. But he's referring to the actitude of "coming outta nowhere to tell you what to do" they have in common.
in reply to S_H_K

What S_H_K said, people have reported being rebuked for posting pictures without ALT-text and not CW-ing uncommon things like eye-contact or food, for example. One person notably received angry messages for posting about cutting their finger on a sheet of paper without CW. The worst accounts were of POC talking about racism they experienced and being told to put it under CW.
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in reply to Berin

Yeah, turns out weird, hostile, anti-social nerds are weird, hostile, and anti-social, and they probably ruined our best shot at freeing the web from VC backed corporate control of communication.
in reply to Berin

Personally, I'm excited there's a decentralized option that's super popular. Yes, relatively very few run their own PDS, but if the main bsky instance becomes a problem for anyone, people can easily migrate.

It's not just data ownership either; The AT protocol supports community-built algorithms, relays, and app views.

in reply to confluence

I wouldn't say it's truly decentralised in its current state.
in reply to confluence

The whole thing's just a scam to off-load data storage costs to super-users. It's sad that people are excited about it.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

People want to leave X, but they still want the same old, rather than new stuff to make things better as a whole. They don't want to have to do this "pick a server" thing, they want to have an algorithm spoonfeed them popular content, and it would be best for them to have to put in zero extra effort. In Masto you have to put in the hashtags to get found, and search for and follow people and hashtags to find stuff you want, and essentially DIY-ing your feed seems to be too much work for people.
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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Every platform and app I've seen does a piss poor job of explaining what federation is and how to sign up. "Wtf is mastodon.social?, Why is this one in German?, Why can't I login after signing up?" New users just get confused and give up.
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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Unpopular opinion here, but: as opposed to other twitter clones like Hive Social and such, that also look sleek and are simple, but didn't go anywhere, Bluesky did manage to attract a sizeable crowd of creative and talented open source indie devs that are passionate about it and build cool stuff on atproto. Whether it's custom feeds or star sign labelers or alternative clients that add more features or entirely new appviews like the oekaki board PinkSea, you get the feeling it is a pretty vibrant ecosystem and this has sustained it all these months.

While this is true for the Fediverse as well, I think it's fair to say that there have been rumblings here about lack of direction and proper stewardship of the Fediverse and if you want this place to succeed you can't just sweep it under the rug, shrug your shoulders and say "well, people who pick Bluesky over Mastodon are just stupid".

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Fediverse reshared this.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Can you guys help explain it to someone completely inexperienced?

I had Twitter but only used it for following music venues to see upcoming events and bars for happy hour updates. I have a Mastodon account but only played with it for a few minutes because i didn't really get it. I don't understand following a person. What can one person have to say that i would care enough about to download an app. What am i missing?

in reply to Today

It isn't one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.
in reply to Today

Imagine if there were two twitters, and you only sign up for one but you can read and comment on posts for both.

Now imagine if anybody can install their own Twitter, and anybody else can sign up on either one, and they can all talk to each other like that.

in reply to Sentient Loom

It wasn't why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I've got an idea as to why.

I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.

I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.

The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.

in reply to glimse

Feels like deciding in 2010 between Twitter and Reddit in some ways...
in reply to glimse

I've tried to stick with mastodon for a while and after using it for months, your description of checking it out is STILL what my feeds look like. That's all there seems to be on Mastodon.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Star power. High production values. Less complex (appears to be more centralized, immediately easy to conceptualize as "twitter but not right wing")
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

You have to understand we are not normal users. Anyone even remotely interested in federated software are not normal users.

Bluesky may not have 57 third party apps and that’s why people are flocking to it. It’s easy. The signup process through the app involved no selecting of servers, no understanding of what it actually is under the hood, and users are greeted by a default algorithm that feels very much like old Twitter before Musk.

Basically, regular users do not care about the fediverse and just want a competent and polished app and site experience.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because no one made a droolproof guide to migrating to Mastodon and Bluesky put money into it.

For people who can't remember their password, it's preferable.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Sign up process is easier. No existential decisions to be made to get started.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Mastodon is a pain in the ass to get signed up for anyone under room temperature IQ, so, like, most of Twitter's users, even the ones smart enough to leave.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I have a friend who has had a mastodon instance since it was gnu social, and there are two reasons I stopped using it.

First, the UI sucks. He installed 3 or 4 different skins and they were all barely usable. I don't want or need something flashy, xfce is my favorite windows manager, but it needs to at least work and not be confusing.

Second, the people suck. It went from being okay to by the time I left I don't think I was seeing any exchanges that didn't have antisemitism or racism.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival. Also, in this case, they apparently don’t see a problem with leaving Twitter because it’s MAGA to join BS which is backed by MAGA money. Convenience ΓΌber alles. Ethics be damned. I’m fine with people like that not joining the fediverse.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Average users do not even remotely care about federated software and/or decentralisation. That is techno-babble to them and their eyes will glaze over if you try to market that to them.

That being said: Mastodon does a shit job at explaining how it works, how to use it, and what its advantages are. The Joinmastodon landing page just assumes you already know how a fair bit about instances work and what federated software is and does a very poor job explaining it. And even then, most users won't care either way. They just want to click a Join button and be done.

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in reply to TheFeatureCreature

That's exactly what drove me into seeking out Lemmy instead. I hopped on Mastodon and it made me feel like I was being coralled into following some niche hobby forum exclusively, and I wasn't into that. It didn't explain that the instance itself was largely irrelevant and that the rest of the platform would open up to me after choosing one.

Lemmy still had a learning curve, but having experience with reddit I was able to pick it up easily enough.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

All those federated platform will only become popular if the backend is dumb and the frontend is smart, i.e. you create your account on a frontend but can use the same credentials to connect via another frontend and no matter which frontend you connect to, all content for the platform is accessible to you, there's no admin having control over your experience, only people offering different UI experiences. Federation/defederation/deciding to host NSFW content, that's all taken care of behind the scene just like on Reddit, for the user they're just using Lemmy via frontend X or Y and they decide what communities and users they want to block.
in reply to Kecessa

Bluesky is federated and mit licensed
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in reply to Communist

I'm talking about Mastodon and Lemmy and such since that's what OP is complaining about
in reply to Communist

This practically means nothing tbh. Social networks when they gain economies of scale due to the network effect will effectively shed all the pretense of open source and open platform etc.

We've seen it with Facebook, Google, etc, during the 2010's with closing of chat standards and destruction of XMPP. Reddit 3rd Party API access is another example of this. We'll see it again.

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in reply to _pi

None of that applies here, can you give a specific method?
in reply to Kecessa

I don't get the rush or the need.

Everything trickles down here anyway. If you're ONLY on Lemmy and Mastodon, you're still getting way more actual news than the average joe. Popular, shmopular.

I'm trying to remember a time in the last thirty years where something becoming popular made it better. It's usually the opposite.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

57 different 3rd party apps is probably a good start. Mastodon has to be easy to on-board and it isn’t for someone with no technical understanding what domains, servers or instances are. To that group Bluesky makes sense. You are signing up for Bluesky. Try to onboard that group to mastodon and they don’t understand if they are on mastodon.social or mastodon.world or any other instance.

Why would they be on one of those fringe services with less users than bluesky? That’s what a non expert understands

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

What is with all these wall of text answers guys?

Twitter people like Twitter and Twitter man for making it.
Twitter now not Twitter is now X and no more Twitter man.
Twitter people not like TeslaSpace man.
Twitter man make BlueSky.

No elephant needed to make this story work. Remember: twitter brain cannot handle too many characters.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

It's because of the connotation with an overrated metal band of the same name.

/s for the overly serious

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

The people leaving Twitter right now want Twitter minus Elon. That's Bluesky. They've heard a couple of their Twitter follows mention it and they've gone to their app store where they find an app called Bluesky, install it and easily join and start using it. Once they do they are finding it pretty straightforward to find people they used to follow on Twitter.

That's all people want.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

You want the bullshit "Mastodon is too complicated and hard to use!" answer or the real answer?

BlueSky has rich people behind it.

in reply to maplebar

They're the same answer.

You need money to market applications to users. Bluesky is sold the same way that Twitter is, your favorite moron celebrity might hit like or retweet on your stuff.

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in reply to _pi

They aren't really the same answer.

People suggest that Mastodon is too complicated for the average knuckle-dragging moron to use (and it might be, but frankly I consider that a pro, not a con) because it has "servers", as if the entire point of the internet wasn't to have a global network of communication across a multitude of clients and servers. Do these same people think the concept of websites and email are also too complex for the regular person? Maybe... But again, if the regular person is that fucking dumb do we really want have them in our community at all?

What's more, BlueSky is supposedly federated (or "will be"(tm)), and as such it'll have to deal with all of the same challenges around federation that Mastodon deals with, and people are kidding themselves if they think otherwise.

Otherwise I agree with your last sentence. Social media is about money and fame, first and foremost. The average person will always go where the most money and fame are concentrated.

in reply to maplebar

Tbf the internet is entirely comprised of like 6 websites if you ask the average Joe, and I'm damn inclined to agree as someone who remembers webrings fondly and misses geocities (it's like the bell curve meme lol, and btw yes I know about neocities I'm just sleeping on it).

But I agree, if they can email they can mastodon, it's the same shit.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

It's just easier. I have both but I almost never use Mastodon anymore. Federation there doesn't seem to work right. I didn't know what an instance was so I joined mastodon.social. Finding and following people in the app doesn't always seem to work right if they're on another instance. Doing it in a browser is even more painful.

The people I liked to follow and interact with on X, many tried Mastodon and abandoned it, and many more are now on Bluesky. This creates momentum to "follow the crowd" as it were.

Additionally, you only have one chance to make a first impression. A lot of us tried Mastodon earlier and it wasn't ready. Bluesky started as invite-only, which drummed up interest before catching this zeitgeist of people leaving X.

Lastly, and maybe it's just me, but the font sizing on the official Mastodon app on Android is generally too small and can't be changed. Bluesky allows me to change it and make it more comfortable to use.

in reply to ObstreperousCanadian

Evidentially mastodon makes it hard to find people on purpose unless you know their name "to stop harassment" I'm told, except I'm not sure how it does that at all and it just makes it harder to use the damn platform. That's my one real complaint about mastodon.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because centralized services are easier to use.
in reply to Draedron

This exactly. I didn't join Lemmy for a long time, because I would search for "Lemmy", get confused when I see a page asking me to "pick an instance" instead of seeing a front page, and then leave because I thought that they were all independent from each other.

It wasn't until reddit killed my favorite app that I finally decided to put in the effort to figure it out.

in reply to Draedron

I'm running my own PDS on the AT Protocol πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

It's the path of least resistance to achieve Musklessness. The second two of the positives you listed are actually negatives to the average Joe. Choice paralysis, overwhelming number of apps and servers, these are things that put people off even trying, especially if there are easier-to-use alternatives that are familiar and instant.

Mastodon is great, but it's not quite there yet in terms of convenience. Too much copying and pasting and clicking through to different instances in order to read old posts etc. It needs to be more cohesive in a way that doesn't require constantly leaving your timeline or going into the settings.

It's also the case that the Twitter diaspora who are famous tend to choose BlueSky, and that brings a lot of people along with them.

And it's also the case that Mastodon doesn't have much of a marketing campaign outside of word-of-mouth, whereas BlueSky does.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

This article gives a good view from an average user's perspective.

zdnet.com/article/i-tried-repl…

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.


For most people that's a complication, not a bonus.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Why is anyone usi5any of them? They're all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

We need a community owned centralized service. I don't think the mastodon model is a good one for social media, it's too complicated.
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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because you install the app, make an account, and use it and now it has more celebs I guess.
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in reply to Jupiter Rowland

Well lots of offoces used Microsoft for email and out sode i workd email is password reset, receipts, and new account confirmation. When the last i sent and email that wasn't work or those things? About 8 years ago.

But yes tryings to explain instance and federation to a regular user is only going to confuse them. We need mastodon to be a sample as login and use. If we bring up a single tecnical term we lose people.

in reply to Jupiter Rowland

I’ve read from Misskey/Forkey users that Misskey and the Forkeys actually have an easier-to-use Web UI than Mastodon


The *keys have a UI that has a similar design language to Twitter, but a fairly different layout. I think it's close enough that people would recognize it as "Twitter, but different", vs Mastodon's "Twitter, but archaic, and also different, and therefore confusing".

The *keys also had many of the features that Twitter migrants complained were lacking from Mastodon. But trying to talk to anyone on Mastodon about platforms that aren't Mastodon was a total non-starter. Mastodon is a giant Mastodon circle jerk.

It made my soul sad.

But the real issue with Mastodon is that it has a significant population of people who believe it's a sacrosanct cultural space, and that are very vocal about telling anyone coming into it that they need to learn the local customs or GTFO. The push-and-pull between "we want to be mainstream" and also "fuck the mainstream normies" is palpable, and super cringey, and it turns people away quickly.

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

install mastodon

Pick an instance


Hit up all

giant penis


That's why. That's the reason.

but you could review the instance beforehand...

Is Jimbo Normalman going to review the instance beforehand? Lmao.

in reply to GHiLA

There's a high amount of friction to get people to join the Fediverse. I had to put in more effort than I'd like to figure out how things worked.

My biggest worry was picking the wrong Mastodon instance and then having no easy way to migrate my stuff to another server. Even after you pick your instance, there's so much setup for things that you kinda just expect to work.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I honestly can't wrap my head around how to use Mastodon. Idk how to search for things that would interest me.

I'm just glad Lemmy exists.

in reply to WereCat

Search for hashtags. And from that, follow people and hashtags.

Easy enough? (I hope so. I can't explain it easier but if you need it...)

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in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

because bsky actually listened to their users and implemented features they asked for unlike mastodon who attacked migrators during the first twitter migration.

bsky also had a bunch of marginalised people - including trans people - as early adopters that helped shape their views on moderation.

in reply to katy ✨

because bsky actually listened to their users and implemented features they asked for unlike mastodon who attacked migrators during the first twitter migration.


The issue I have with this narrative is that the features migrators wanted already existed in the Fediverse, on Misskey, Friendica, Pleroma, Akkoma, etc. If anyone wanted to actually listen to those of us trying to point them to those options, things might have been a little different. But those voices were drowned out by the Mastodon circle jerk, and people didn't actually grok the whole federation thing well enough to understand that they could follow the same people from any of the different softwareseseses.

The fediverse isn't Mastodon, and we all do it a huge disservice by continuing to talk about it as if it were, even as we use a different fediverse platform.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I don't know. But one potential advantage of bsky over mastodon is the data and real account migration capability between instances.

Also bsky is run by a company and overall infra is better than most community instances of mastodon, so people will see better performance and more ad/pr visibility of the platform.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I never post, but I do follow a couple of channels on bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky always just works. Mastodon breaks all the freaking time.
in reply to matcha_addict

Idk the webpage doesn't load, or i get some kind of weird error, or it seems to load but the persons profile shows they have no posts. Refreshing after a minute usually fixes it. But bluesky always loads faster in FF mobile and it seems much more reliable.
in reply to LaLuzDelSol

That has never happened to me. May I ask which instance you signed up on? I'm curious to try signing up there myself
in reply to matcha_addict

Msdn.social, that's where my account and the person who's profile I look at are
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

At least for Japanese users, they want to see content they love from creators relevant to them.
Creators = illustrator, comic artist, photographer, cosplayer, writer, etc.

Creators want a stable platform that allows them to widen their reach and potentially making more money.

Mastodon at the moment are tend to be hostile against creators that wants to monetize their work.
Not to forget, the creator you want to follow are on defederated or blocks your instance for random admin drama.

But hey, at least fediverse software like Misskey actually trying to serve these community. Like allowing community ads (like promoting indie comics, vtuber, or social event) and trying to be stable by resolving any potential instance problem together with zero drama. Misskey community also often have tendency to "decoupling from Western tech supremacy"

in reply to confluence

First, Bluesky's nomadic identity isn't worth shit if nobody knows that there's more than one instance.

Next, it has yet to be proven to work because nobody has daily-driven it yet.

Finally, if you want nomadic identity that's actually proven to work, don't join Bluesky. Join Hubzilla. Nomadic identity, established in 2012, some four years before Mastodon, daily-driven by probably hundreds or thousands of people since then.

I'm not even kidding. The Fediverse had nomadic identity four years before it had Mastodon.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because most people don't exactly want a community-led social platform that respects you and empowers user freedom, even if some say they do.

Bluesky is promising a Twitter-like experience. They promote their ties to the former Twitter, and promise algorithms, dopamine-inducing "reach" and "engagement", paid subscriptions, some degree of centralized control (primarily of the network's infrastructure), and a for-profit VC-funded company, all under the guise of federation. They claim a mastodon-like brand that they are yet to deliver.

in reply to matcha_addict

Because most people don't exactly want a community-led social platform that respects you and empowers user freedom, even if some say they do.


Get off your high horse. I work for a software company, regularly participate in beta testing and am very tech literate. Mastodon was agitating to use when I signed up and not intuitive. The community I signed up in also deleted my account during a β€œwhoopsie”. A terrible experience drove me off with no desire to go back for such a tiny and relatively stagnate user base on an unstable platform. If that was my experience, the average person will absolutely not like Mastodon.

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in reply to prof_wafflez

Your complaint is about an unknown instance admin committing a maintenance mistake. Will bluesky's promised federation protect against that? You could join an instance managed by a well funded public entity if you want something that gets close to VC-funding. (which aren't that reliable either. Look how many of these start-up platforms go away)
in reply to matcha_addict

See this is part of the problem.

Dude was like "look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had" \
And you are like "yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they're just as bad!"

I've been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.\
I haven't been using bsky because I've really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.

in reply to PeriodicallyPedantic

I mean if a centralized social media is what you want just join threads and cut the chase. The complaint they made, bluesky's federation does not solve. It is only not apparent because they have only one instance right now, similar to threads and Twitter.
in reply to matcha_addict

What an absolutely braindead reply.

Mastodon had a bad experience for that person. \
Blue sky didn't.\
Their experience wasn't unique.\
End of story.

You're doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn't suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn't.

"Oh but bsky's federation doesn't solve Mastodon's problem" they don't have to solve Mastodon's problem.

Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn't fun.

in reply to PeriodicallyPedantic

Your mental breakdown is reeking of self esteem issues. Go be a lunatic somewhere else and stop wasting my time.
in reply to matcha_addict

I see you've employed the "I am rubber you are glue" tactic. Great job πŸ‘
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Because they liked Twitter, and Bluesky is (presumably) like Twitter before Elmo bought it.
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Interest in hobbies related to commercial brands (following sports, movie franchises, etc.)

When you even mention that you'd like to follow brand accounts, people start shouting at you how commercial scum needs to be banned/defederated.

Of course people move to platforms where their interests are represented.

in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

I tried bluesky (bs?) for 5 minutes. Clicked one thing, saw the comment "Sunsets are my love language," and realized that these are not my people.
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