Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day

Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We don’t. It probably is. Mastodon is the way, but they need to fix a few things themselves.

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  • Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do we know mastadon isn’t just owned by Musk too?

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    • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because it’s federated and FOSS.

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    • CgH10N4Co2@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It can’t be.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We can’t, but at least there is a chance it is not.

  With Xitter, we know for certain.

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• fantawurstwasser@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We know that it is run by the same assholes. Bluesky is VC backed and Twitter was also. There is no way that Bluesky won’t go the same route as every other VC backed social network. Sometime in the future they will start to meddle with your feed to push ads and sell your data to everyone.

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  • Asetru@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?

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    • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because people “just want it to work”.

      from what I’ve read on bsky is that people don’t like Mastodon due to the instances. They don’t want to figure that out. Either because they’re too lazy or because they’ve spent so many years utilizing apps that “just work” that it’s beyond them.

      That’s the meat and potatoes as to why Mastodon isn’t taking off, it’s “too much work” to use Mastodon.

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• sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  we already know bluesky is run by former twitter folks. the fact that people never learn and move on to a guaranteed platform like mastodon is astounding; but i guess it’s humanity in a nut shell.

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Although it also helps that places like BlueSky have less of a barrier to entry.

    Alternatives like Mastodon are a bit more confusing, compared to a centralised site, where everything is linked in through the one interface.

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    • sibachian@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      i disagree. the only barrier of entry is when people are pushing the fediverse concept as a whole. for the vast majority of people; all they need to know is to go to mastodon.social and sign up, done. they’ll get the wider picture on their own terms and at their own pace if left alone.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most of the coolest places have barriers to entry

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• dog_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been on the platform for about a year, it’s more community driven than other sites.

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