Official account of Bluesky announced that it got 1 million new users since the registration was opened to everyone.
“Mastodon? Why use a free decentralized option when I can give my data to a billionaire?” - People around me.
“What could possibly happen?”
Surely this one won’t end up the same as all the others before.
There are some advantages to a centralized platform, I hope them being a “public benefit corporation” (haven’t had time to study what that means nor much desire cause it’s probably a U.S. thing), but as long as it doesn’t get enshittifed that’s still a net win.
Although obviously this won’t be a popular opinion on a decentralized platform like Lemmy.
I’ll use this along with Signal (which is non profit), in hopes that it’s impossible for them to sell out/sell our data/sell ads.
Bot farms are always early adopters
lmk when they bother to federate.
otherwise it’s just a worse twitter.
Later this month, according to their blog.
I don’t think Bluesky is better than any instance on Fediverse, but we need to make changes I guess.
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It won’t be, because it’s just another Twitter.
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Old twitter was bad, modern twitter pays to show everyone bigoted propaganda and actively courts Nazis. Mastodon is better, but most don’t want the inconveniences. So yeah blue sky it is
Mastodon’s AGPL license will always be better though
Yeah but if mastodon itself (the community and content) isn’t better, then it’s a moot point
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Yeah I’m going to support the movement as long as Trump will not appear on it.
I really wanna like mastodon more and have tried 3 different instances now (2 niche and one larger instance) but I like the community on bluesky better for my particular niche. It seems to be where a lot of art twitter went when things got shitty over there.
I saw many artists going to Misskey.io because it’s main instance even English speaking ones until they gone back to twitter, stayed on Misskey or half measures. Then because of EN influx in mainly Japanese server , Misskey.io closed doors to non-Japanese add in fact that Misskey or rather any federated service can’t oblige to European Union protection standard which means they can’t operate in EU officially.
So I see lots of messages on Misskey about artists making blue sky accounts as well… All depends where they get more views I guess or have people supporting them around.
Not comparable, one is centered around people and the other around topics
The only thing I care about is: Will this be enough to pull critical mass from Twitter? I don’t think I’ll ever join, because twitter life made me very unhappy, but the sooner journalists and high-volume celebs move off twitter, the sooner it can be relegated to Truth Social 2 and that, I think, will make the world a slightly better place.
Aaaand keyword blocked. Tired of this VC shit showing up on my feed.
Eh, I like seeing it. I’m not going to use Bluesky or anything similar, but I think it’s important to stay informed. People are going to talk about it, and if it blows up, it’ll become politically relevant.
I signed up few days ago, but I learned that I still don’t care about twitter style platforms. I prefer Reddit like platforms where the focus lies on the subject instead of the person.
Yup, Mastodon never appealed to me, I think I made like 10 tweets total (mostly for promotions of some kind), and I bailed on Facebook when I realized I got no value from it.
But Reddit immediately appealed to me, and Lemmy is good enough.
I signed up and so far my feed seems to be dominated by a lot of bird pics. I guess that’s fitting for a site called bluesky?
Unless they’re owls as they’re nocturnal. Blacksky doesn’t have the same vibe though.
That’s the emo version.
Fun fact since you may not be aware, but not all owls are nocturnal. And even those that are considered nocturnal are often active at dusk (after sun set but before the sky has gone dark). So, it could still work.
Jack is (or was) a muskrat fan, I’ll probably migrate there when every artist that I care about starts going, but I prefer to stay here and on misskey.
That’s great news. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
No
sad that twitter users will jump to literally anything except mastodon. wake me up in 15 years when bluesky finishes its twitter elon musk cycle and it’ll be like i took a 12 second nap
Imagine purposefully giving a mewling quim like JACK direct access to your data ever again, just to sell it all to Elon Musk, again, again. People are in fact, sheep.
Yeah, this. People doing it again?
Signed up just to get my ID, and make sure no one else can have it.
I’m happy for them.
There’s a bridge in development that should be interesting https://www.docs.bsky.app/blog/feature-bridgyfed
