Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance

• Wiz@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

  Until they run out of VC money.

  Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, not unlikely. Can’t truly know ahead of time of course, but it feels like that would eventually happen. I wish governments in particular had jumped harder onto Mastodon, slowly moving attention there.

    But it’s probably also difficult to justify, because from their perspective it’s just one “someone else’s solution” vs another. They’d have to first make their own twitter like fediverse software I bet.

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    • cabbage@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.

      I have to say I'm a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn't be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we're in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.

      I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn't matter much if it takes a while to get there.

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• Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Better in what way? Format wise? Does it have better apps?

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No I mean it seems to work better as an alternative. Quite a few smaller companies, content creators and so on I want to see enws from are on there, so it somehow seems to work better for them. 🤷‍♀️

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  • iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Better content.
    Mastodon is full of keyboard activism and news. Finding content for/from normies is not that easy and is usually ignored (0 retoots or so).
    Bluesky has normie content along news and is still pretty left-leaning, a couple of artists/creators have an account there.
    Finding porn/hentai is also easier than in mastodon (and you don’t have to check every detail of the servers to know if it’s allowed).

    Tl;dr: Bluesky requires no mental effort to create an account and has normie content.

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    • Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Bluesky is federated right? You will still have to check what the host allows. I get the impression the only reason there are more normies is because of the celebrity of Jack Dorsey.

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      • ademir@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        could be federated, but it is not.

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