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SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It won’t be for a few reasons:

Most of it is explicitly anti-commercial in the sense that most users want to get to know other users not just their work
Folks keep introducing it in a way that is difficult for new users to understand
Having said that federation can be difficult to understand if you aren’t seeing others and don’t get why
There are no algorithms, full text search or indexing which most users from commercial social media want, but we don’t for privacy and anti-commercial reasons.
Quite a bit of mastodon cares more about sustainability and community than upping their numbers so most of the non spammy, well moderated servers have registrations closed or reviewed (or whatever it is called) and most people might find that difficult to deal with.

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realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I use both and Mastodon is missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.

Good user verification

Add lists

Block lists

Subscribable topic feeds

Configurable algorithms

These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation.

I wish it were otherwise, but that’s just the way it is.
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- SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How is user verification done?
  
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  - realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You put a snippet of code on your website.
    
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    todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, so exactly like Mastodon.
    
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    SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And if you don’t have or perhaps want a website?
    
    Does verification do anything?
    
    Does it create haves and have nots?
    
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interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tyranica moderation, meaning onerous decision of which instance you join will restrict the range of your permitted opinions. And lastly, no real way to migrate your account without damaging your relationships and reputation. Again making the instance decision very important.

This combined with infective content discovery means mastodon will remain a niche nerdtoy clubhouse

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- SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’ll stop being ‘tyranica’ when users stop being racist and harassing others, until then the good instances will keep banning and blocking those that won’t do anything about it.
  
  Also, spam is a problem on open instances.
  
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