That type of social media just isn’t really for me. But why would one want to choose Bluesky over Mastadon?
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Bluesky is pretty great once you learn how to use it. I plan to slowly back off twitter.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
pycorax@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m mostly still on Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese artists and bands. Now plenty of them are jumping out BlueSky so off I go.
zeppo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s how Facebook went for me the last time I tried to use it with a new account… I was immediately swamped with friend requests from people in eastern and central Africa. I accepted some out of curiosity so of course FB decided that’s what I was really into. I’m not sure if these people just send out random requests or why they want to add Americans… I didn’t get hit up for scams or anything, it was just people posting and sharing photos of their lives as normal FB users.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
That’s how it was for me too. I was never targeted or anything… although there was some discussion of some ridiculous scams others were supposedly doing. It was just normal conversation for them, for me it was kind of like a riveting soap opera. Too bad I forgot the password/it got bought out by an asshole.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
1 reason for me, the algorithm. I can never find a lot of new thing to discover or new people to follow on Mastodon when I first started, which makes me not use it very much even now.
Lag@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I heard the struggle with recommendations is because it doesn’t track you. One of the suggestions was to use tags to find content based on your interests.
ahal@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That’s a good point. The original question was why would someone pick blenny Bluesky over mastodon? You just hit the nail on the head.
It’s because the vast majority of users value features and usability much higher than privacy.
ahal@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Because users value usability over privacy.
The major thing that make Mastodon unusable is lack of users. That and lack of algorithmic feeds.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Bluesky is the promise of Mastodon with none of the failsafes of Mastodon.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Bluesky is vc backed by investors, it is a false promise that I am sure a lot of people working on the project believe, but it is a fale promise all the same.
Bluesky is in the part of its lifecycle where investors tolerate no return on their investment in favor of drawing more people in. That is the relevant difference between Bluesky and other social media.
There are cool parts to Bluesky but it is absolutely a false promise of a future the fediverse already provides. It is also full of “liberal” sheep who tell themselves they think differently but are so locked into the mindset of the way things are that they NEED their social network to be owned and operated for a profit by people orders of magnitude more wealthy than them.
Bluesky will end up essentially the same as all investor backed for-profit social networks, a toxic, centralized shithole (or in this case pseudo-centralized because of the moderation system).
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But is it filled with the people that many want to follow and interact with? Twitter was popular for this reason, and people will tolerate being advertised to and sold on if it recreates that experience.
I had brief conversations on Twitter with Ice-T and John Carmack. Twitter’s nature enabled that remarkable connection. Could it happen on Mastodon? Absolutely, but those celebrities and geniuses need to embrace it. If it’s Bluesky, it’s better than X if only for a time.