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Why not just use mastodon? Why is this better in any way? Twitter was already going to shit before Elon accelerated it.
At least in my own bubble, many did switch to Mastodon. Those that didn’t are looking at other options, because the whole federation idea and things like home instances didn’t appeal to them or were simply too complicated (they want a service that at least hides its decentralized nature).
I don’t get why people dislike federation
What’s with Lemmy users doing free advertising for corporate social media like this? You’re already here, so you should know better, right?
I mean, yeah, I’m on Lemmy and lots of other sites in the Fediverse, but why would that make me “know better”? Is my account supposed to give me some profound insight that sets me apart from the plebs on other sites? What I begin to know unfortunately is that the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular would be much more popular if it wasn’t so full of self-absorbed comments like this. The sole point of this post was to share something I found interesting that day, but if the mere mention of services that aren’t Lemmy provokes these kinds of comments, then I fear Lemmy will never make it out of obscurity. JFC
No, having an account won’t give you insight, but what I’m getting at is that most of us are here to get away from the glaring flaws of corporate social media. Obviously I want as many people as possible to join the Fediverse, and I don’t see how advocating for or at the very least normalizing more the exact kind of corporate-controlled platforms that drove most of us here is going to help that.
Personally, when it comes to Lemmy’s user numbers, I’m more concerned about the condescending tone that keeps getting worse and worse on here than I am about people posting memes about the broader social media landscape. But we don’t have to agree on which of these is more or less helpful.
use mastadon or nostr, they are actually decentralized. Bluesky is just twitter 2.0 with the same broken incentives and the same broken business model.
Competition is great and all, but Mastodon already exists.
Yeah honestly, let’s have competition between Mastodon servers instead. My current favorite is dice.camp for tabletop fans.
Let’s just put our social media in the hands of the exact same guy who fucked everyone over last time. Because that makes perfect sense.
I always find it a weird take when people treat Twitter before Musk like it was some sort of wonderful place that people enjoyed.
the fuck is bluesky?
It’s for libs who want things to be marginally better temporarily rather than significantly better forever.
Like the joke of old:
Internet Explorer: the best browser for downloading other browsers
Having an invite only service seems like a risky move. If you make the sign up process too difficult people will give up and never return.
At this stage that’s kind of the point. It’s an intentional demand-curbing measure. The number of people trying to switch to BlueSky outstrips hosting infrastructure. They’re scaling up slowly and carefully.
I presume once it’s out of open beta and they have the infra they need to launch properly, it will stop being invite ony.
Facebook started as an invite only service.
So did Gmail, but it was a different time without any good competition.
I find it funny how the only problem people see with Twitter is that the wrong oligarch owns it. The real issue is with reliance on privately owned social spaces. Corporations shouldn’t be in charge of how people communicate with each other.
I tried Mastodon, but had dead feeds and the discovery was really bad. All I want is gay people but I’d get USAian politicians and other irrelevant shit. I got BlueSky and it’s all very relevant. Many dead accounts, true. Still seeking out ppl to follow.
There’s an earlier version of this Fediverse Tree diagram where everything is more carefully on branches and the sky is… Blue. Bluesky. Bluesky is very much a response to the Fediverse. As a replacement. As a more popular and more important service.
Don’t quite get why Wordpress is anywhere near this. Isnt this a website solution?
Their blogs just got integrated fairly recently with the fediverse.
