Unfortunately I’ve heard that a lot of people especially from academia are moving to bluesky. I’ve already started talking to some people I know about Mastodon. I hope the word spreads around.
The big thing is that it is invite only. Also, I find it easier to use than mastodon.
Another point, I need more shitpost in my feed. I fucked up with my mastodon feed and have too much political crap on there. I ended up saving a good amount of invites and invite only to small group people I like and want to keep touch with (no rando). So, I ended up with a small cohort of people over there that I can share thoughts and photos with.
I guess different people have different use cases. I am enjoying Mastodon and have had positive interactions with people. I have also found a lot of good quality content there. Additionally, I totally avoid political stuff so haven’t had any issues of political stuff messing up my feed. IMO the invite only thing is just increasing attractiveness by creating artificial scarcity.
I think the invites feature is the only things bluesky really has. At this point, I don’t mind as much as the feature allowed me to control who is in my feed and made my feed more intimate like the early days of Facebook. For me, it was a way to weirdly combat parasocial relationships by inviting people I know and talk to.
Theoretically. I can do the same for mastodon. But once I start trying to explain fediverse, they didn’t care for it. Fediverse idea is interesting, but loses most people I want to keep in touch with.
One of the things I really like about Mastodon is that I can curate my feed to show only what I am interested in by following hashtags and/or people and muting those people whose posts I don’t want to see. There’s no hidden algorithm controlling my feed, pushing controversial posts towards me and other stuff. So I don’t get why would you need the invite only feature of bluesky control your feed?
Because it is harder to get people I know on board to mastodon than to bluesky. I don’t want too many random people on my feed. Most of my feed consists of people I do know and actually interact with. Mastodon doesn’t have as much shitposting as I would like and takes awhile for it to get situated to the point I ended not using it. Why bother going to mastodon when I have my friends on bluesky.
So a fun idea might be to set up or join an invite-only Mastodon server, and spin it as the Cool Place To Be™? It sounds silly, but hey, if that’s part of what’s working for another social space…lol
It is certainly that, but also that bluesky feels like home to twitter users. They do the best job of running a twitter clone that feels seamless to join and use. My SO is not techy whatsoever, maybe even what you’d call a “normie” and they are thrilled to be on bluesky having been an avid twitter user. Mastodon unfortunately just doesn’t cater to the same or widest audience.
Because I can’t agree. Bluesky is, weirdly, geared around building up custom “queues”, and the default queue, called “Discover” has some really niche stuff in it. This is very much so not like the usual Twitter method, and is way less immediate for generating a dashboard with valuable content than Twitter’s “Just follow a bunch, the algorithm with add in the gaps”.
Like right now the third post ok Discover is a Bara Furry artist essentially advertising his porn.
Bara Furry Porn. The OPPOSITE of mainstream.
I find the app very off putting every time I open it.
That’s fair. They haven’t been on long but it seems to be the preferred alternative for whatever reason. Also, try searching for “BBC” on mastodon. You will find the news… among other things.
Over time everything gets eaten up by open systems. If you are worried about lemmy or mastodon, don’t be. Other open systems are the real concern. I’m rooting for nostr.
Unfortunately I’ve heard that a lot of people especially from academia are moving to bluesky. I’ve already started talking to some people I know about Mastodon. I hope the word spreads around.
What’s so special about bluesky that people are migrating there?
The big thing is that it is invite only. Also, I find it easier to use than mastodon.
Another point, I need more shitpost in my feed. I fucked up with my mastodon feed and have too much political crap on there. I ended up saving a good amount of invites and invite only to small group people I like and want to keep touch with (no rando). So, I ended up with a small cohort of people over there that I can share thoughts and photos with.
I guess different people have different use cases. I am enjoying Mastodon and have had positive interactions with people. I have also found a lot of good quality content there. Additionally, I totally avoid political stuff so haven’t had any issues of political stuff messing up my feed. IMO the invite only thing is just increasing attractiveness by creating artificial scarcity.
I think the invites feature is the only things bluesky really has. At this point, I don’t mind as much as the feature allowed me to control who is in my feed and made my feed more intimate like the early days of Facebook. For me, it was a way to weirdly combat parasocial relationships by inviting people I know and talk to.
Theoretically. I can do the same for mastodon. But once I start trying to explain fediverse, they didn’t care for it. Fediverse idea is interesting, but loses most people I want to keep in touch with.
One of the things I really like about Mastodon is that I can curate my feed to show only what I am interested in by following hashtags and/or people and muting those people whose posts I don’t want to see. There’s no hidden algorithm controlling my feed, pushing controversial posts towards me and other stuff. So I don’t get why would you need the invite only feature of bluesky control your feed?
Because it is harder to get people I know on board to mastodon than to bluesky. I don’t want too many random people on my feed. Most of my feed consists of people I do know and actually interact with. Mastodon doesn’t have as much shitposting as I would like and takes awhile for it to get situated to the point I ended not using it. Why bother going to mastodon when I have my friends on bluesky.
OK understood why you prefer bluesky.
What I hear a lot is
Guess that proves education can’t teach you common sense.
Bluesky is still invite only, so eh, doesn’t really matter.
Maybe that’s the whole point: People love to show off about being part of some super exclusive group
So a fun idea might be to set up or join an invite-only Mastodon server, and spin it as the Cool Place To Be™? It sounds silly, but hey, if that’s part of what’s working for another social space…lol
It could work. Just add a normie approved UI and create a flair of exclusivity.
It is certainly that, but also that bluesky feels like home to twitter users. They do the best job of running a twitter clone that feels seamless to join and use. My SO is not techy whatsoever, maybe even what you’d call a “normie” and they are thrilled to be on bluesky having been an avid twitter user. Mastodon unfortunately just doesn’t cater to the same or widest audience.
Really?
Because I can’t agree. Bluesky is, weirdly, geared around building up custom “queues”, and the default queue, called “Discover” has some really niche stuff in it. This is very much so not like the usual Twitter method, and is way less immediate for generating a dashboard with valuable content than Twitter’s “Just follow a bunch, the algorithm with add in the gaps”.
Like right now the third post ok Discover is a Bara Furry artist essentially advertising his porn.
Bara Furry Porn. The OPPOSITE of mainstream.
I find the app very off putting every time I open it.
That’s fair. They haven’t been on long but it seems to be the preferred alternative for whatever reason. Also, try searching for “BBC” on mastodon. You will find the news… among other things.
Over time everything gets eaten up by open systems. If you are worried about lemmy or mastodon, don’t be. Other open systems are the real concern. I’m rooting for nostr.