Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Bluesky allows me to use my domain as my identity and make my own moderation decisions without having to run my own instance.

    • BruisedMoose@piefed.social
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      2 months ago

      I was really impressed by this feature when I signed up recently! It baffles me a little bit to see newspapers and things not taking advantage of it.

  • DaseinPickle@leminal.space
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    2 months ago

    Americans love to pretend they are cowboys. In reality they love centralised power and bureaucracy. They are deeply afraid of each other so they flock to platforms that pretend to be for freedom, but is actually highly regulated by centralised power. That’s why they love tech-oligarchs that pretend to be self made geniuses. It allows them to fantasise about freedom to succeed and submit to power at the same time.