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Let me get this straight:
- Person A makes a social network
- People flock to it
- Person A sells the social network to person B
- Networks does a 180, destroying communitie; people outraged.
- Same person A makes a social network
- People flock to it.
- [surely we can predict what is going to happen here, right?]
This doesn’t really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.
He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he’s a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.
Bluesky is dead. Long live Mastodon.
Maybe we need to start writing our own articles like this.
I love that the people who weren’t smart enough to leave Twitter two years ago are now eagerly jumping from one frying pan into another.
Fortunately there have been a few who learned their lessons a bit late and came over to Mastodon.
But the rest of them? The one who tolerated the racism and misogyny that Musk brought with his red pilled idiots? Let them have Blue Sky and the rest of us can watch as history eventually repeats itself.
Long live Activity Pub.
I like the X on top of the bird. Nice
This one is probably also run by a right wing techie as well
I’m OK with that, as long as they keep their mouths shut.
Same as the old boss…
Maybe they should have done this about a year ago.
there’s quite a few people in this thread with the same weird vitriol as reddit had.
if someone uses bluesky and you don’t, then why make yourself upset over it? i have both mastodon and bluesky. i use both.
I’m not sure why everything has to be a weird competition. some weird us vs. them shitfight.
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
Because we all hate corpos.
May the corpos die
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
And we know what kind of control the platform owners have. “Just” doesn’t cut it I think.
Because I have seen 10 posts about how Bluesky is the new Twitter on my Lemmy feed in two days. I overreacted a bit, but what you say goes both ways. Absolutely use what you like but there is no need to spam a new platform like that.
The same happened when everyone moved over from Dig to Reddit back in the day. It’s really annoying for like 2 weeks with everyone talking about it, and then it calmed down.
Use word filters for the things you don’t want to see.
Lol, Blusky fan boys are quite active today. I’m sure this millionnaire’s toy will be better than the previous one, good luck.
The way I look at it, I know it’s probably going to end up being shit in the end, but it’ll be a few years until that happens, and it will be fun in the meantime.
Just because you know I’ll have to leave at some point doesn’t mean that you don’t enjoy the party while it lasts
And then what? You’ll move to Truth social? Then Thread? And then to X2? Meanwhile there’s a decentralize alternative that gives back the control to users, you’re welcome to join.
I don’t think it’d have to be either or. People can join both or just one it doesn’t really matter, If it ends up being another dumpster fire then people will move off just like they did X.
Most people will go where most of the people are going and that’s blue sky not Mastodon.
I disagree. People that didn’t left twitter when Musk took over are like people who didn’t vote in the US election: enablers. In my opinion, if you accept to take part in the nazi shithole that X is, you are in the end validating it’s existence.
What are you disagreeing with exactly because I didn’t say anything about X.
I’m taking about Mastodon versus bluesky
I think joining bluesky is validating another for-profit business that will do anything to profit from it’s userbase. Like facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Titktok, etc. the ONLY goal of capitalist business is to generate profit, so they will throw you under the bus the very second they think they can make more money by doing do. But yeah, you’re free to join bluesky until it becomes so shitty that you’ll want to join the shinny new capitalist alternative, created by the exact same people lol.
is bluesky privately owned? What is preventing this whole thing just happening again?
My only interest regarding Bluesky is i don’t care about Bluesky. Long live Mastodon, Lemmy, Fedia, and the rest of the Fediverse!
Twitter is dead. Long live [name]. I saw this show before.
Tech so loves to repeat the same loops, and IMO I think it’s on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy.
(Number of people that have told me they think mastadon sounds like a good idea, but they don’t know how to pick the right instance). I try and smack them and say "it’s just like e-mail, you and your friends don’t have to choose gmail, your friend can be on yahoo, and you still talk to eachother. Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.
So… we have a new platform, to replace twitter… yay!.. should we take counts on how long before either enshittification begins, flooding of ads or changes to be unusable), or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc…
it’s on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy
A bunch of people came over to Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, but they left because it was missing features. The big ones I saw were
- a lack of “trending” list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what’s happening right now didn’t have a way to find events
- no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?
- no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn’t provide me with new posts.
Also no quote tweets. And many people are used to algorithms now. I love Mastodon but I have to say Bluesky is more polished. Mastodon can be weird about threads and replies to posts. Sometimes I see a reply before I see the post, especially in the “lists” view. Chronological timeline is great but it has its own issues too. For example people living in different time zones will have their posts buried when everyone is asleep. The algorithm, for better or worse, shuffles things around which can work for you or against you. If you browse for 5 mins here and there, algorithm helps you see the most relevant posts in that widow. Having both chronological and algorthimic feeds would be so helpful to me in Mastodon. I know there a front end that does a “catch up” feature, but it’s a bit hacky
Honestly that’s the most poorly designed part of mastodon, replies aren’t arranged chronologically. You click on a comment you see a few replies to it then go back and scroll down you see some more replies but they are just tagged comments to the person they replied like it doesn’t make any sense at all
Honestly, mastodon uses a open protocol, so in my opinion having an algorithm feed is a missing feature of the client/frontend that is used to interact with mastodon rather than a mastodon backend issue.
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That’s lazy journalism. There’s a functional search bar as well as trending hashtags.
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There will never be suggestions by design, but there’s accounts like FediFollow and guides on how to get started with Mastodon. If you meet those people in the future, tell them to follow hashtags for topics they like, and encourage them to start using hashtags. They’ll find people that way.
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This is also by design: there’s no suggestions, because there’s no algorithm. You decide what goes on in your feed (boosting is another important part of that). If you’ve looked at everything, explore a new hashtag, follow more people, check the Local or Global feeds, or Satan forbid anyone actually take that as a sign to take a break and go touch grass.
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Is there any FOSS Bluesky client. I want to give it a shot after so many artist moved to it from Xhitter. Even some game dev like Localthunk(Balatro) and ZUN(Touhou) moved to it.
I’ve noticed quite a lot of devs are moving over to blue sky. I feel like there’s some blog post I’ve missed or something which everyone has paid attention to. Why are they doing it now? Twitter has being shit for ages.
Seems their official/main app is FOSS
