If you want microblogging social media just use mastodon (or one of it’s forks). Even if Bluesky is decent now, it’s owned by venture capital, so it’s only a matter of time before it enshittifies.
Mastodon is not a viable alternative if you actually want to follow people. I tried to use it multiple times but almost nobody I care about is there. I’d love for Mastodon to be more popular but it just isn’t.
Sure. Right now, everyone has to make a trade-off between accepting a smaller network and engaging with corporate garbage designed to create rage and clicks. Personally I’m happy to sit on the smaller network and contribute a bit and wait for it to build naturally. That’s why I’m here on Lemmy too.
My entire point is that this isn’t how it works for me. I use these platforms to keep up with personalities and organisations I care about. Almost none of those are on Mastodon, so it’s just straight-up useless to me. If Bluesky suddenly disappeared and Mastodon stayed exactly the same I wouldn’t switch, I’d just use neither.
But then wouldn’t you just use X instead of Bluesky?
Do you really need me to tell you why I’m not using the nazi pedophile transphobia platform?
Plus, most people I used to follow there have moved over to Bluesky a long time ago. I would’ve preferred it if everyone moved to Mastodon instead but for now Bluesky is at least acceptable.
So I guess the worry (echoed in this thread as well) is that Bluesky could become the same type of platform, given the people and investors behind it. Only time will tell
Yes, and I totally share that concern. But for now, Bluesky is pretty good. And if it gets enshittified we’ll hopefully have an easier time convincing people to move to Mastodon.
It’s not quite as unhinged as Twitter, but it’s still corporate-owned social media run by some very questionable people. It also had a huge bot problem; when I deleted my account it had ~300 bot followers (and like 10 real ones). That was a bit over a year ago, so it might’ve improved by now, but I don’t have high hopes
Last time I tried Bluesky was the start of this year, with a week had like 20 bot accounts following me, maybe 1 real person
Bluesky has a lot of libs, which is certainly better then twitter these days, tho annoying in its own way sometimes (most recently: platner glazing up til he finally dropped.) more robust blocking then twitter, and lets you subscribe to lists of shitters to block. I have had issues with bots but they’ve been fairly easy to spot, and largely resolved when I subscribed to a list that simply blocks everyone who follows 10k+ people.
We need to learn from past mistakes.
When Jeff Bezos buys bluesky in 2035 and change its name to BlueDildo what?
I like BlueSky, and it’s nowhere near as unhinged as Twitter.
As with how Twitter used to be, it’s just a question of curatung your feed. If someone is an asshole you block them and move on.
The key difference is that you can choose to have a feed of only those you follow, and that’s what you actually get, not algorithm-driven nonsense.
I use it regularly and enjoy it, especially in the food, comedy, gaming, and programming communities. If you give it a go I highly recommend trying the “For You” feed. You pin it to your list of feeds, and it produces such shockingly relevant content. It definitely has a mixture of folks on it though, despite that people claim it’s one group on one platform and another group on Bsky.
I actually find the mixture of takes to not be all that different from Lemmy, just less pro-Chinese posts, and maybe even more anti-AI stances than I’ve seen around here.
If you want to hide from politics though, “For You” can definitely be a bit of a bubble. Being a left or right swipe away from escaping your bubble is a nice compromise imo.
It’s fine but discovery still sucks and genrally it’s very low effort. I’d recommend spending the first few hours finding the right profiles to follow as the general post quality is very low but there are gems worth finding.
It is not as good anymore as it used to be. The annoying kind of leftists abandoned Mastodon for BlueSky, some blocklists are done in absolute bad faith (“anti-pedophile” blocklist are just pro-trans activists, others are cancel culture bullshit). However, it’s still million times better than Elon’s nazi bar (seriously, everyone should just boycott the nazi bar, it now wants me to “age verify” to access porn, which was its last saving grace)
Yeah wouldn’t touch whatever that Trump Bootlicker wanna be tech specialist loser freak layed upon even if he threatened me with a shank.
I left Twitter shortly after Elon bought it so I can’t offer a comparison.
About the only thing I looked at on Bluesky was a feed from my home town. BS is great for local news and events. The only thing better is my collection of rss feeds. I closed my account before they started with the identity verification bs. Bluesky is largely vibe-coded if that is an issue for you.
it’s corpo social media run by transphobes so yeah the latter
Just go to Mastodon for a twitter like micro blogging experience.
