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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Now all governments around the globe and other public services and we.are getting somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 104 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Non-EU folk - this website won’t open in EU because they don’t want to follow our local user privacy protections. What they’re going to do with your data? Who knows.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 hours ago

man that is so cheeky of them!

Instead of abiding with the law, they just chose to block content altogether 🥲

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 hours ago

Archive

But yeah, you're 100% right.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

See you can be a really good scientist and not smart at the same time. Move to mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 hours ago (9 children)

Why switch to BlueSky if you have Mastodon...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

Cause the name is hard to remember.. I was trying to yesterday and the closest I could get is megatron and megalodon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's a big elephant and you send "Toots!".

How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You'd post "Quips!" or "Bites!". Wouldn't work at all. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

"Bites" is so cool...

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 hours ago (30 children)

I'm on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:

  • instant add subscribe lists
  • subscribable block lists
  • custom feeds/subscribable algorithms
  • keyword/topic blocks
  • nuclear block where you never see the blocked person again
  • optional discover feed
  • DM preferences

All these things (and more I'm sure I'm forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.

I am still trying with Mastodon, but it's really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn't bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I think there's a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can't quite understand it myself.

Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn't help that "no algorithm" means "show first reply at the top" so quick replies can dominate comments.

The bit I don't understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can't quite believe that but I can't see why blue sky would be less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's not that it's less annoying, it's that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

There's plenty of people on masto saying they have accounts on both but prefer bsky due to difficulty managing replies.

As I say I don't really understand it but it's a real thing big accounts experience.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

In a word, audience. I'd prefer it if everyone went with Mastodon, but the audience on BlueSky is orders of magnitude bigger. I cross post to both, but only because I don't trust BlueSky not to do exactly what Twitter and Meta have done eventually.

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