Is bluesky really eclipsing mastodon? jeeze
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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The signup process for mastodon sucks massively. Unless you're nerdy enough to sort it out, you'll give up then and there. Bluesky is very straightforward, while offering customization to those looking for a non-mainstream experience.
Same for Lemmy tbh.
You could say Bluesky is... picking up Steam, eh?
Sorry, I have no new or interesting insights to offer, I'd hope most already get what's happening, anyway.
Don't worry about not having any insights, I still valve-ued the pun.
It's nice to see other people enjoy the pun. Would be shame for it to be left4dead
I will never not read "bluesky" as "bloo-skee"
It will always be "bluey-skibidi"
So how can I follow them from Mastodon?
I like the OpenVibe app. That's as close as I've been able to get so far.
This is my question too. Search results turn up Bridgy Fed, but that seems to require the account you're interested in following to go through those steps, which none of the accounts I'm interested in are doing. At least the Threads POTUS account turned on federation so I can view it from Mastodon, but I suspect for the next four years, that account will be pretty quiet, and if it isn't, I'll probably want it to be.
I wonder why is Mastodon is not appealing to Valve.
Bluesky has 20x the user base (and the gap is growing wider every day).
Reach?
If I wasn't on Lemmy, I wouldn't even know about Mastodon. It's not really something you hear of outside of the fediverse, in my experience. Meanwhile, BlueSky is gaining traction and talked about everywhere. Most people don't care that it's not exactly decentralized. Most of the things the users on the fediverse care about are not things the average, not-very-tech-saavy person cares about.
Bluesky has a good new user experience, too. Even if you do know about Mastodon, making an account is like"Welcome - figure it out, lol"
I'd bet if they went the other way, they'd get significantly fewer people signing up for the service...Steam caters to both nerds and casuals alike
I really enjoy Mastodon, but it seems to be too confusing with all the servers. I don’t know why, but maybe because people have been conditioned by big tech to use centralised services. Especially Gen Z that grew up with this very big tech controlled internet.
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Why not Mastodon?
Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?
Twitter was bluesky before musk bought it, federation ensures that can't easily happen to mastodon.
That's it.
That will just make them stay on X.
Cool. Now give me an argument why my mother would care about this fact.
Centralized and private = enshitification
Self hosted and federated = not prone to enshitification
Idk how simple it has to be for people but clearly I'm over estimating people
Okay. Now, explain the concept of enshitification. And do it using terms that regular folk won't find crass.
You know how conservatives live in this bubble where they don't even see their racism because it's so normalized? We're interacting within a bubble where everyone has a very high level of technical competence versus the average person, so we fail to understand just how tech illiterate others are.
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Can you explain the benefits of the fediverse over a centralized private site to a regular person in 5-second quip that will convince them that the relative complexity of using the fediverse versus BlueSky is worth the effort?
Billionares with mega yacht fleets are choosing bluesky over mastodon.
Like it or not, a regular person doesn't give two shits about that.
Talk for yourself, the average person does indeed care about the environment. In the past years there have been massive greenwashing campaigns from companies trying to please the average customer.
Man, I wanna live in your neighborhood. I'm surrounded by bougie people or people with bougie fantasies. They talk all the time about drinking wine on a boat.
Yeah because it doesn't cost them anything to say they "do their part" when they make token "commitments". It's not because the average person gives a shit. Give them a choice - $5 more an hour, or instantly and forever solve climate change and see how many people would choose climate change.
People complain about having to sort trash before throwing it out. Saying "most people care about the environment" is extremely naive.
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Their main business and source of money is a proprietary centralized platform. Mastodon is the opposite.
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