Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users.
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoHe’s already gone. But, regardless, why sign up for yet another corporate social media site when every single one of them becomes enshittified after a few years. Are they just planning to abandon Bluesky eventually too? Or just hoping that this time it’s different?
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
You say that as if any Mastodon instance was guaranteed to last several years.
merc@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
The difference is that you can easily move to another Mastodon instance, and it’s designed so that when you do that your followers / followees come with you.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 18 hours ago
Except you can’t move your posts. Or, really, anything other than followers.
merc@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
True, and this is something that Bluesky actually seems to do better. Your posts are stored in a “PDS” (personal data store), so in theory they’re not tied to any particular instance.
I hope that a future version of the Fediverse design / ActivityPub considers how to handle this issue. Still, I’d much rather lose my past posts than lose my social graph. Past posts can probably be archived, but it’s much harder to track down people you used to be mutuals with on a different account and follow each-other.