The Fediverse experience starts with an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?
Most people will not have any way to answer that without knowing what the downstream impact will be. Mastodon people are working on smoothing that down, but it’s still a pretty fraught question. And if half a given community ends up on one server and half on another, they get fragmented and conversations and followers fizzle out.
Bluesky wants to tell people they’re not a single-node lock-in to avoid the Twitter effect, but it turns out that’s their key advantage.
The only thing that will guarantee they don’t end up like Twitter is if they revamp their corporate governance mechanisms, but they had to take VC money and haven’t come up with a long-term revenue model, so it’s not clear how they can avoid it.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The email experience starts with an unanswerable question: what server do you want to be on?
fubarx@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Your email server doesn’t also run the group email list and all the join/drop/approve/ban operations. And if you bring your own email domain name, you can go somewhere else and get no disruption. But if you sign up for me@hotmail.com and hotmail bans you, you’ll lose all your connections and conversation history.
The canonical list of operations on a social media platform far exceed that of an email service, a bulletin board, or a messaging service group. It’s apples and rocket ships.
Bluesky is offering simple one-stop answers to a lot of these concerns. Fediverse needs to answer all these, plus address the whole long-term financial sustainability question.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
This is just untrue. There’s almost nothing to Twitter, IG, etc., while many bulletinboards are far more complicated.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“How can I send Gmails?”
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
For e-mail, it does not really make a difference.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Good luck with you hotmail account.
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I use both Outlook and non-Outlook e-mail (the former forced by my school) and never had problems.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.