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Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.

The reasons mentioned in the article:

One reason is that it seemed tech-savvy users heavily dominated the platform, making it difficult for regular social media users to find their way and feel comfortable on the platform.

I think that’s saying the content tends to be very niche and it’s hard to find people with similar non-tech interests.

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Users have described their timelines (and even the explore tab) as “stale” because there’s often not much interesting content to consume or engage with.

This lines up with my experience: it’s hard to find people with similar interests. Even when you do, people aren’t saying much of interest.

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littlecolt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yep, same problem Lemmy has vs reddit. Only the nerdiest tech nerds got on here. Not many communities from reddit or just in general here. For example, I had to go back to reddit for a good sized general anime community. It’s that or fucking 4chan, and no thanks on the latter.

To me, Lemmy feels very much a giant technology board with a few memes.

But I will say, the past few days, Bluesky has gotten a lot more interesting.

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- sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Yep, same problem Lemmy has vs reddit. Only the nerdiest tech nerds got on here. Not many communities from reddit or just in general here. For example, I had to go back to reddit for a good sized general anime community.
  
  I’ve had the same experience. I still post here because I want the platform to take off, but Lemmy doesn’t fulfill my needs.
  
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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The last part I think happens because the people who are there are most likely the ones that dislike very short content, which is what Mastodon offers by default (I know it depends on instance, some allow 1k or 5k character toots), but it’s a disorganized mess. It’s a kind of service/software for fast communication that can be done better in a specific Discord server. The “good stuff” will always end up posted elsewhere, like personal blogs or websites, where it’s better organized (most of the time)

One thing that keeps people on xitter is the “it’s where I get the news”. Major news outlets aren’t on Mastodon and likely won’t be. There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”

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- sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  There’s also the stuff that “you get to know before it becomes news”, which also won’t be on Mastodon because it lacks the “gossipers” and the mass of users that is needed for having people “everywhere”
  
  It’s not the gossipers, it’s a trending view. Mastodon doesn’t tell users about active conversations as they happen. That makes it really hard to get breaking news, because you need to be following someone who is posting about it AND you need to recognize that it’s breaking news.
  
  Maybe that has improved in the year or two since I used Mastodon.
  
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