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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

What aren't they joining Mastodon and Lemmy? Or even Threads?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mastodon or Lemmy, because you would have to choose an instance and a client. Threads, because why would you?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Choice is a good thing, though.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don't care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow.

Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

What's good for freedom is bad for ease of use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

agree, but for some reason many people don’t seem to think that way

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bluesky is a lot easier to use vs fediverse stuff, discovering stuff is also easier in my experience vs mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the problem is its easier to use because there is virtually no federation. Ive yet to see a user thats not from the flagship bsky.social instance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe you're already aware, but bluesky doesn't operate with instances like in ActivityPub land.

I've seen many people I believe are using their own PDS, but yes, discoverability is likely better because a relay is meant to aggregate and share all data it can (look up "bluesky firehose").

P.S. Mastodon's devs are part of a new initiative to improve this area of the Fediverse. Because it's so recent, we'll have to wait to see how it goes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I just opened BlueSky to see how many people I followed using their own PDS instance and the fourth post in my feed was from someone using one, and the 7th was from Washington Post who also uses their own.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

I'll use Bluesky before I use Threads. I don't want to get sucked further into the Zuckerborg.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Do not use threads

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

For me there weren't enough people on Mastodon in my hobby to make it worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I've been stupidly trying to convince them to use Mastodon on the same thread on reddit yesterday.

Some prefer the interface, but I guess the real issue is what stopping them from selling it to another Musk like they did with Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I was on Mastodon, but host or whatever you call it, didn't like what I said and got banned.

Feel like bluesky wouldn't have that kind of power and control by one person and be more open and popular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's the opposite. On Mastadon you can make a new account on a better server ie mods more aligned with you. On bluesky if you make a new account and say a similar bannable thing again you'll be banned again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But people are sensitive, rather not jump server to server because that 😅 something on equal terms like bluesky seems good.