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Masturbon sounds wrong that's why they use bluesky.
If they want to reach their customers, they likely won't find them on mastodon.. hard to ignore millions of engaged users 🤷♂️
Mastodon moderation is also absolute garbage.
That's not consciously why, but it's certainly part of the stack of reasons that made BS blow up despite coming in from the rear in both building the tech/site and having absorbed the first wave of Twitter departures.
Incidentally, I have a dormant Masto account and active accounts here and on Bluesky.
Masto is a big disappointment and surprisingly bad fit for the Fedi/AP structure.
Strongly disagree. Bluesky is extremely American-centric and basically just a bulletin board of "hot takes". I find Mastodon much deeper, more engaging, and international. I'm glad I deleted my BS account and replaced it with Mastodon.
edit: However, I was never a Twitter user in the past
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As much as I'd love to see mastodon grow, I feel like a lot of people here like to ignore the number one most important feature of a social network: who's on it.
Bluesky didn't start with millions. Europeans chose it when there were none. Like Facebook getting its start because Savarin used his college frat connections across the country to get the ball rolling, I'm sure there were paid influencers who got things moving for Bluesky.
and mastodon just can't have the social network with how confusing it is to a normal user, just like lemmy.
Decentralized platforms will never take off as long as people talk about how it works, you just need a URL with a sign up function that works and an app you can install, log in to and it works. That's what a normal user wants.
Finding accounts to follow on Mastadon is fer less intuitive than finding some Lemmy communities to follow
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Pro: can't really go viral on the mastodons.
Con: can't really go viral on the mastodons.
That’s not true. I got 20 likes this week!
I made a post about the unfortunate Ao3 data scrape that occurred a few weeks ago and got a good amount of boosts and likes.
I'm wasn't a frequent poster on non-fediverse social media sites anyway, so this was a new record for me lol. I actually like posting on the Fediverse.
Bluesky isn't decentralised, given enough time there is nothing stopping it from becoming X
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Fuck me, I wouldn't join BS even if you paid me. I've stepped on the centralised social network rake one too many times.
I guess I'll lose out on the viral influencer garbage I don't care about and brands doing cringe shit to push their products.
I'd love to use Mastodon more than I have BUT I DONT FUCKING USE LINUX AND I DONT WANT TO FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IT ALL GODDAMN DAY
Not having an algorithm means you need to curate your content.
If you drink from the fire hose you're only going to get bean juice.
sorry but we cant just say no to an oportunity to suggest to you use linux
I noticed. I'm not having any of the problems that linux supposedly fixes.
Linux doesn't fix, it just makes the problems more fun
i love recompiling my kernel
Linux, AI, LGBT and Trump/Musk. Everyone, every day. People need to know about those subjects, but it's awful to restrict the diversity of the world to the same recycled messages. It's like hearing Lois Griffin saying 9/11 time and time again 😅.
Lol I'm a linux user, but I rarely see content about it on Mastodon. I try to center over conversations and so and try to keep Tech content here in Lemmy.
You literally create your feed and select the people you want to connect to, it's easier to control the things you see ;)
You can filter posts with specific words or phrases. Or you could make the better choice of switching to Linux and getting a nice pair of programmer socks.
No post I have ever made has generated more response than this one, which kindof reinforces my point
So you turned to Lemmy. Great choice.
Yeah. Its going downhill fast
Being on both…. I can say I am on Bluesky way more, more engagement, more big names etc etc. Mastodon feels dead in comparison.
I think a piece of it is discoverability. Mastodon makes it hard to find stuff, or suggests the same five accounts for me to follow for months. Blue sky is easier to find stuff on. I wish something like Mastodon would win, but the numbers aren't trending that way. Blue sky has more momentum.
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Bluesky is for people that want Twitter to go back to the “progressive” highly moderated/censored hugbox that it was before Musk bought it. They don’t want decentralisation or any of the supposed privacy that brings (which isnt actual privacy anyway), they just want old Twitter where everyone agrees with each other cause they ban everyone that doesn’t. Bluesky is that because it’s a literal Twitter clone from the guy who made Twitter.
I tried making an account on bluesky. I was using orbot at the time. It let me make an account and then instant acocunt suspension. Similar to other platforms.
I appreciate the platform preemptively stopping me from wasting my time. I should have known better.
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Mastodon user here since 2017. Sure, Bluesky requires less learning for those who come from other centralized platforms and nobody has to deal with fediblock drama over there. Some may also point to Bluesky's users being less tech-savvy and less prone to dogpiling on tech companies for their poor decisions, which I don't believe is completely true. Something I do love about Mastodon though is I don't need any mods or admins to make decisions for me. I can calmly stay in an instance I trust and filter everything, every single small bit, to fit my own criteria. I get others think this is bad moderation and wish to depend on third parties to answer their reports, clean the servers and "do justice" but I prefer to make those decisions myself and let others make theirs.
a lack of moderation is how you get 4chan and x
That's a huge oversimplification. UX design and a careful selection of settings and features, for instance, have a big role in that regard. It's not what you prohibit but what you incentivize too.
Both are pretty heavily moderated.
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