What's Mastodon precious?

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• andrewthe95th@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I feel like you guys are addicted to letting perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, Bluesky being corporate run will probably be an issue down the line, but if it becomes mainstream then people will be used to seeing .APP.INSTANCE and feel more comfortable with the fediverse interface, which I know at least for me was a big hurdle. Like seriously, the fact that the next big thing is federated, even if in name only, is a big step forward.

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  • xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I’m a huge believer in federated systems but I believe that a lot of ‘normies’ going to bluesky is a huge step in the right direction. Even though most don’t know anything about the tech behind it and migrate because twitter has become a bot infested right wing hell scape, they still are one step closer to being fully integrated to the fediverse.

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    • airportline@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bluesky’s ActivityPub support is also leagues better than Threads because of Bridgy Fed. At least a Bluesky user and a Threads user can follow each other and have a back-and-forth conversation.

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  • Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Expecting perfection is a huge problem in all aspects of life. People just want instant perfection and aren’t willing to work towards it. Then there’s just apathy and that leads to stagnation or worse regression.

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    • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ohhh that’s your profile pic, I was really confused how you got verified haha

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  • ajmaxwell@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Half a loaf is better than no loaf

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  • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the irony of a bsky supporter complaining about being judged because it’s not perfect.

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    • andrewthe95th@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I genuinely have no idea what you’re implying lol

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    • Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtf ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imo sorry, but you are literally the reason why the fediverse has a bad name. Stop gatekeeping stuff or asking others to do so and just defederate if you don’t like it.

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  • priapus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluesky is such a huge improvement over twitter and so many people are just ignoring that. Yes, the app is centralized, but you can still host your own data if you choose. Plus, the customizable feeds, algorithms, and moderation lists are all great.

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• Cyborg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon is gatekept to hell and back, the technicalities of federation are exposed to the user for some reason (you already lose half your potential user base right there), infighting between instances means that you won’t see the entire discourse of a post depending on which instance you’re at…

  And besides all that, bsky is not as “corpo” as mastodon fanboys make it out to be. They’re on track to open up to privately hosted instances as well, and you can already run most of their backend stuff yourself.

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  • proton_lynx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As much as I like the ‘decentralized’ stuff, the technical part of federation should NEVER be exposed to the end user if you want the platform to be mainstream. I still don’t understand why a lot of federated projects think it’s a good idea to expose that to the end user.

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    • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.

      The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.

      It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.

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    • witten@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude, do you even email?

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  • Trekman10@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think a lot of the attitude I saw on mastodon about this like a year ago was one of suspicion that they wanted an open network but didn’t use the fediverse standard

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    • Cyborg@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I assume the main reason is that ActivityPub is a mess and quite overcomplicated for bsky’s needs. Being permanently tied to it seems like a big risk. There’s no reason why they couldn’t make a compatibility layer later and hook into it.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which AFAIK isn’t a standard, so… 🤷

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• Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Write a bit about yourself to join this server and if we decide you’re too boring we’ll reject your application and say you’re a spammer afterwards”

  Hmm I wonder why normies aren’t flocking to this platforms, what could be stopping them, couldn’t be the shitty onboarding process could it, Nah asking people to apply is the best onboarding process ever (big ass /s)

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I tried to join Beehaw simply because a reddit community I was actively part in went there.

    I got told that’s not a valid reason to join, and that further applications from me would be ignored. I mean… okay? Sure… guess I’m no longer part of that community.

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    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Beehaw sucks, they embraced the exclusive club mentality harder than anyone else.

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    • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does beehaw no longer federate? Otherwise you can reach that community from lemmy.world and be a part of it you know.

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  • Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Many Lemmy instances are requiring their users to apply for an account.

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    • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And that makes it better how?

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    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s actually a much bigger problem here than it is on Mastodon. Probably will end up slowing adoption of Lemmy in the future. Especially considering Lemmy is one of those platforms that really needs normie content and normie interaction to keep going, something it’s really struggling at currently.

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  • Makhno@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tbf it’s a good way to keep the laziest of shits out

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Elitist neckbeards like you are why Mastodon and Lemmy are still boring

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    • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I DON’T RECALL GETTING A PAYCHECK TO POST

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    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Agreed. If someone can’t be bothered to write two sentences, they really have no business being on a discussion platform. Because clearly they won’t be contributing much if anything to the conversation.

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  • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.

    But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.

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    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t have to do that when you sign up for mstdn.social, and it’s also not a requirement for mastodon.social And there are more instances where you don’t have to apply like that.

      Yes, and we need much more like that if we want this platform to be sucessful as a whole. Normies want to join social medias, not clubs.

      But when it’s asked that you apply to the server, it’s usually to ease the load of moderation, to see if you would fit the vibe of that instance. And/or to protect the more vulnerable people on that particular instance.

      We all know or should know that running a platform like a club where people need to apply and have their worth manually determined is a toxic and unwelcoming environment that does not promote any kind of growth, and the fact that it is common and encouraged is not helpful to the fediverse long term. It just pushes normies away. Because a social media doesn’t ask people to apply, a club does. Most people don’t want to join small exclusive clubs.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but the whole point is that this stumbling block - and the requirement to select anything in the first place nevermind keep certain restrictions in mind - **should never exist in the first place.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also acts as a filter to keep threat actors and spammers out. Open sign ups are actually a bad thing for the overall health of the network. Yes it also keeps out the lowest common denominator normies but those aren’t exactly the ones who contribute to the network as a whole anyway

    This isn’t capitalism, there isn’t a need for growth for growth’s sake. There does need to be a more simplified way to onboard users but not at the cost of the health of the network.

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    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Open sign ups are actually a bad thing for the overall health of the network. Yes it also keeps out the lowest common denominator normies but those aren’t exactly the ones who contribute to the network as a whole anyway

      This is an elitist mentality that harms the health of the network on its own by limiting the amount of people who interact on the platform and post. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, turning the Fediverse into a club is a horrible way to create a platform where people interact with each other like a social media, because the nature of clubs is that they are small and exclusive.

      This isn’t capitalism, there isn’t a need for growth for growth’s sake.

      Please don’t mischaracterize the demand for having people interacting on the platform and with as something capitalist, or big tech only for making money, it’s disingenuous because people want to have their posts seen by other people, why else would they even post them publicly? Having more people makes a platform more lively, and having more people voting makes content shift and flow.

      Let’s face it, small exclusive clubs are one of the biggest reasons Fediverse hasn’t taken off. And it makes sense since if you don’t let normies in and treat it like a club the place will be dead as fuck and have very few people interacting. Only reason its active now is because many instances used to be open and gained userbases.

      There does need to be a more simplified way to onboard users but not at the cost of the health of the network.

      No, we don’t need something new and convoluted, that’ll just push out the normies who want to be here or make them not want to. We need to take the page out of big tech’s book, let people and spammers signup freely, and ban the spammers automatically. No one wants to do this, they want to invent new solutions that are unfriendly, or just kick out normies and then complain that this place is sooooo dead. Stick to what works, it wouldn’t have been done that way on the OG centralized social media if it didn’t work.

      Also don’t conflate assholes/trolls with spammers, that’s disingenuous as fuck both because you are over-inflating the spam problem to make your elitist solution seem more appealing and also because the solution does not work for both types of people. You’re not going to stop all or even most assholes or trolls by asking them questions, they can lie dumbass have you forgotten that or do you think Instance admins are divine beings who can’t be lied to, if Reddit admins aren’t Lemmy admins sure as fuck aren’t. Some of the biggest assholes I’ve met on Lemmy are on instances with applications, it DOES NOT WORK AGAINST THEM.

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  • PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just created this account. I went to Lemmy.world to make a new one and it said I need to fill out an application. I laughed. Get out of here with that nonsense.

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    • Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is bullshit and it will hurt Lemmy and the fediverse greatly in the long term since they’ve effectively crippled the onboarding process and turned their instance into a club.

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If Mastodon wanted to be preferred, it should have been better. I moved to Mastodon over a year ago when the Twitter sale first happened. It was not great then and it’s gotten slightly worse since. I created a Bluesky account two fats ago and it already offers exactly the experience I missed from Twitter before Elon.

  Would it be better if Mastodon was good and the federated FOSS option was superior? Sure, absolutely. But, that scenario isn’t even close to the case we are presented with.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you give actual examples?

    I feel the only thing that Mastodon ‘misses’ is some feed to get you addicted.

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    • Fediverse_Champion@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Seconded, some specific examples would be helpful.

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    • Gigasser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Might be paranoid, but I feel as if alot of the anti-mastoron sentiment is astroturfing. Might just be me and my schizo mind though.

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    • grandma@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which is precisely what makes people actually use twitter

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  • DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been a heavy Mastodon user for two years, and I honestly don’t see why so many people on Lemmy give it so much shit. Certainly not in favour of the likes of Bluesky.

    I get WAY more engagement with my posts on there than I ever did on Twitter. And maybe I’m just at an age where I don’t give a shit about celebrity, but I couldn’t care less that all the Big Names have gone to Bluesky and Threads. It’s great not seeing the same people being shared into my TL all the time.

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  • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve got a bsky account too but I get way more engagement on my fedi accounts. I’ve been building up my follows for 15 years on the fedi so bsky never had a chance to catch up. it probably never will.

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    • silasmariner@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      15… Years? On the fediverse? How’d ya manage that without time travel?

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  bluesky has made better choices - the starter packs and user lists are great for new users. They managed to add quote tweets but let the quoted person opt out of dog piles. It looks like they options for custom algorithms too.

  It will be enshittified but mastodon should be taking notes.

  The system is just way better. The local/fed feeds on masto are just wasted.

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  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The block lists for various types of assholes are also a marvellous invention. It’s so nice to block all of MAGA at a click

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    • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I haven’t had to block a maga in a decade. my admin already took care of that.

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  • BMTea@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if we’re wrong and BlueSky just gets better? I mean, with some of the corporate trappings of old Twitter, but still user-friendly, big userbases, vibrant subcultures and banning troublemakers?

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean even if it repeats “the Twitter mistake” that’d still be another 13-14 years to go. Who knows where short-form social media will be conceptually in that time and whether any competition in the space is even still relevant.

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It will, but it still has that countdown timer over its head.

      The future is the fediverse, some yet-to-be-invented non-corporate equivalent, or offline.

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    • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the concept of more than one website is so challenging for plebs.

      use both and please don’t bridge bsky to the fedi.

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  • skrlet13@feddit.cl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluesky has useful tools. But (almost) all lists were made by the community of Bluesky users. Curation was made by users.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Curation was made by users.

      Right, users not corporations make social networks, so the community not for profit corporations should own those social networks.

      Can we not all see this as the same old pattern of predatory rent seeking behavior applied to online communities just seasoned with even more jargon and condescending handwaved half explanations?

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People who genuinely think like this (as in, that users going to Bluesky is somehow bad, surprising or something only stupid people do) are the very reason systems such as Mastodon cannot work. And sadly they naturally pervade such systems, at a development, administration and user level.

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  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will have to agree, what I see is people on the fediverse always talking about how others should join it and complain when people have the free will to choose other options. So far, it’s been painful to find a Mastodon instance, because the whole thing doesn’t feels intuitive, it’s hard to differentiate them, and all the topics that go on the honepage are just politics and people mentioning other platforms.

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• B312@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s almost like the average person doesn’t care about the fediverse and decentralisation and only wants muskless twitter. Nooo clearly the normies are idiot sheep

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  • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bluesky is Decentralized.

    www.hostinger.com/…/how-to-host-a-bluesky-pds

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    • B312@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s exactly the thing, mastodon has all of these nerd things attached to it that most people won’t care about, whilst BlueSky doesn’t

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bluesky is not decentralized if you have to use their relay to access the network from your PDS

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, the reason Musk is an issue is because Twitter is a privately owned, for-profit company. The issue is top-down leadership. Bluesky is absolutely doomed to the same fate.

    Bluesky is a for-profit corporation backed by Venture Capital and run by Crypto assholes.

    Jack Dorsey launched the initiative in 2019 as a proof-of-concept for a federated Twitter, which never happened. After dumping Twitter, he re-launched it as a standalone social media service and flagship ATProto instance, before jumping ship and letting it be run by committee. He now endorses Nostr, because BlueSky wasn’t friendly enough to Nazis.

    The current BlueSky CEO, Lantian Graber, started her career running shitcoin/scamcoin exchange (SkuCoin), manufacturing ASIC mining rigs, and developing for Zcash. She masquerades as a progressive techie, even as all of her past experience leans Libertarian/Anarchocapitalist, and all of her other ventures’ websites are plastered with GenAI slop.

    Bluesky is growing faster than ever expected, and with virtually zero real federation going on. It’s going to fail catastrophically when the new user base realizes they signed up for the same shit they were trying to get away from.

    It isn’t that hard to realize that a FOSS product developed by a nonprofit (eg. Mastodon) is the correct answer, not more centralized, corporate, for-profit social media…

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If the reason people only want bluesky is because it’s Elon-less Twitter then they are stupid and wrong (or just ignorant). But then they can move to the next thing in 5 years when the enshittification happens.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yup, there it is.

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• jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the internet has a future, it’s on the Fediverse. We work around capitalism to avoid enshittification, or we let it defer our future further.

  In the meantime, the Fediverse needs to get shiny and intuitive. The sign that something is cumbersome and hard to use is people saying “it’s not that bad”.

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  • simplejack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People may disagree with how BlueSky is organized and architected, but I get why they decided to do what they did. User experience.

    Their architectural decisions mean that people don’t have to worry about instances confusing people, and the org structure means is easy to staff a proper dedicated experience team that can be working, planning, and testing before big expensive decisions are committed to code.

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• Donkeytown@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  After initially hesitating, I decided to join Bluesky after having previously tried Mastodon and permanently leaving Twitter. While I was initially reluctant because Jack Dorsey had sold Twitter to Elon Musk, I still created a Bluesky account. I later came across Jason Koebler’s article on 404 Media, which validated my choice. His arguments aligned with my own reasons for preferring Bluesky over Mastodon. Link to the article: The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet.

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  • JoYo@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    404 is just mad because we mocked them relentlessly for not using content warnings on their goatse posts.

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• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon may or may not be good (I don’t use it), but the fact that it segments off users into different groups means it will never be a twitter replacement. The fact that twitter is essentially “public” and all sorts of people from different areas interact was basically the whole point of it.

  Bluesky seems pretty nice so far and it has real momentum.

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  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mastodon doesn’t silo its users, that’s what federation is for. Everything you post on the public timeline is essentially public for everyone that’s on a federated instance that hasn’t gotten blocked.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just dreading the inevitable monetization. These spaces are fun in their alpha state. But it’s just a matter of time before there’s a “Let AI help you spam Shrimp Jesus to your friends” button and a “Pay $5 to override the Block function” feature.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would argue siloing is easier on bluesky - block list manager drama can definitely have a similar effect to user admin drama. The thing mastodon does poorly is discovery.

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• alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just love when ppl believe that switching from one VC-funded centralised corpo platform to another VC-funded (slitghly less) centralised corpo platform is a good thing /s

  Just because it’s (partially) OSS doesn’t make it good. The corp still hold all the power and might sell out, but at least they got free volunteers to program for them so the C-level could get more money!

  (Now don’t tell me that Bluesky is “federated”. They still hold all the power over site rules and moderation. The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)

  Apparently virtue signaling about pseudofederation is enough for libs to “get hope for the future of the internet” while they happily lick the boot of yet another centralization-crazed “trust me bro this isn’t going to eshittify itself” corp

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just loooove how pppl believe that whether something has VC-funding or is federated has any effect at all on how people pick software and systems to use.

    I mean, users don’t even not care, because “caring vs not caring” assumes that the metric they can care about or not mentally exists in their context for judging a decision. Which it does not. Which is a very important part so many software designers of user-facing software forget, to users a short-form posting instance is a tool. A hammer. You use the one you got. Once it becomes defunct, you get a new one. You pick one that all your friends use, because hey, must be great if everyone uses it. Does it have some downsides? Maybe, but frankly it’s a hammer who cares?!

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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)

    Nah, that’s not even a concession. You just pay for a portion of their server costs at no gain in influence.

    Problem with Masto though is that the technological leadership is really bonkers, hardly anything meaningful happened over the past 2 years with lots of serious issues not getting fixed

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  • P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nice profile picture!

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• vordalack@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon is social media where no one comments or likes anything.

  It’s like a modern art masterpiece.

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Had to look up bluesky. Posts are called skeets 🤣

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• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the userbase of mastodon is even remotely similar to that of lemmy, I sure as fuck am glad I joined Bluesky instead

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• nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the hate for BlueSky is proof that it’s important enough to work. Buhbye elon

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• IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Heres the thing with federation

  It will always be more complicated, and lead to smaller segregated communities. This mitigstes the network effect social media services rely on

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• TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t understand what anyone uses twitter, bluesky or mastodon for anymore. I used twitter to follow companies (like CoffeeStain) or YouTubers/Artists.
  Bluesky has some of that, meanwhile mastodon is just a circle pit of yelling and also the same stuff I see on Lemmy.
  I don’t understand what people use it for. There’s no information to follow like company game accounts for games I play, and when I tried to do goofy shitposts like old twitter i got a grand total of 0 likes.

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• Epicurus0319@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Friendship ended with Mastodon

  My new best friend is Bluesky

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like Masodon but the user experience is easier and great block tools too. I don’t mind Mastodon not being mainstream, it is kinda good to have niche parts of the net still.

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Eh… seriously?

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• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bluesky has its own federation protocol.

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• 8000gnat@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  why the fuck does no one change the trashass looking shadowed white impact font default text treatment on the meme generator

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• demizerone@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Community owned centralized systems are the answer.

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• TehWorld@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Twitter was a vapid load of crap before Elmo took it over. I see this as a win if it knocks him down a peg or 44 billion.

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s wrong with Bluesky? From my perspective it looks pretty dang wholesome. Could someone please elaborate?

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had originally not expected it to last a year of Peon Muck’s ownership, but hopefully it’ll finish dying (or fall into complete irrelevance) by the end of 2025.

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• TomAwezome@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can run your own relays, the obstacle is that each relay takes up many terabytes. But it’s fully open.

  github.com/bluesky-social/pds whtwnd.com/…/Notes on Running a Full-Network atpr…

  news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42086596 docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose docs.bsky.app/docs/…/federation-architecture#rela…

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• Emerald@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought that was the FreedomBox logo at first. I was confused why Billy’s dad would be mad at the kid making a freedombox to run federated systems.

  www.freedombox.org

  It is very similar

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• digdilem@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Twitter’s already served its purpose. People slagging it off because it’s losing money really don’t understand that it won a country.

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