Technology

Mastodon is broken as fuck for me. I don't know if it's my instance, or the country I'm in, or what. The app mostly just spins and hangs. It's been like this for a year. I've never been able to see who other people are following, which is something I like to do to discover new content. I've never been able to view videos that people post. I joined in 2020 and I'm probably just going to delete my account.

I think bluesky and twitter will become politically divided and become their respective echo chamber rather than Twitter going out of fashion.

Overall the discourse quality will go down at both places.

The bird died years ago. Now we wait for the death of a letter.

This seems fine, so long as the journos remember how to pull up stakes once a platform decays. I hope they learn a lesson about the importance of owning your own audience, follower lists, etc.

The difference being that Bluesky has very robust block lists which you can subscribe to to remove these accounts for you.

Not sure if this is an age thing but at a certain point I just stopped wanting “forever fixes”. Nothing is forever. You’re just patching in the hopes that the nex hole is easier to patch now that you have all the shit you need to do patches.

Can it implode? Leon can just keep burning money to keep it alive. It's going to probably be funded by the government soon anyway.

Same for Reddit, still very much alive apparently.

(I'm not going back, I'm happy here)

Oh shut up with that.

You act like there's some kind of alternative which there isn't. Mastodon, which I'm sure you were going to mention, absolutely does not count because it's a nightmare to use and they haven't bothered to fix any of its problems.

So there is no viable alternative.

Also because it's so awful to use, no one does use it, and so no one's on the platform. After all, journalists need to go where the viewers are.

There is zero point being smug about your open source platform, if no one uses your open source platform.

I mean, what’s the alternative? Mastodon culturally could not get its shit together enough to be a viable alternative.

Ten years later

"Journalists flock from Bluesky...

No elon... literally all that matters

When a Maga billionaire buys a large social media platform... that will cause the divide. And it is.

You're measuring Bluesky with a different measuring stick than they are.

You're measuring it with the "This is decentralized, and therefore not connected to corporate interests, and never can be" stick.

These journalists WORK FOR the corporate interests you left twitter (or maybe never had an account) over. They are measuring the stick by "These current users are just MAGA users in a cult".

As long as Bluesky doesn't start shifting right wing MAGA, it IS different for their purposes. It's just their purposes are not YOUR purposes, and therefore they can still say that it's different, and not have that be a lie. Doesn't mean it'll satisfy you any.

Wow, that's pessimistic

Bluesky has far more robust tools for blocking bad actors. You can subscribe to auto updating block lists which take these people off your feed.