Not setting up an account, that’s roughly the same. Adding contacts by topic, blocking topics and people with bad agendas en masse, etc. I started my Mastodon account almost a year before Bluesky. In Bluesky I had something useful in a week. In Mastodon I still don’t (and it’s not for lack of effort).
Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks agoGetting set up on Bluesky is orders of magnitude easier than Mastodon,
I’m so tired of hearing this. Just click the mastodon.social button in the app and it’s not any different.
realitista@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Wouldn’t that mean everyone is centralized on the same instance? I don’t use Mastodon so I don’t know if it’s the same as here…
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Not everyone. Just those users who don’t care enough to be picky. I wish they would rotate the instances but this is better than nothing.
Comtief@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Sorry what do you mean? I see users posting from other instances in my mastodon app (I haven’t used it much).
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Sorry, what do you mean?
I see users posting from other instances in my mastodon app
Which would indicate that
everyone is centralized on the same instance?
is incorrect.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I’ve been on Mastodon for two years now. I’m active and all.
And yet, to this date, I still can’t find a single person in my working field, who are located within the province of Quebec.
Bluesky? Over a hundred already within days.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Yeah I mean you’re making my point here. More marketshare = more leverage over users.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I don’t think I do… what I explained was, Mastodon is too difficult not because of the interface, it’s because it’s too decentralized, to the point of everyone getting lost in the forest, and no one can find each other within the networks.
As for Bluesky, while it’s not the best or safest alternative, is way more convenient for networking—the raison d’être of a social network.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
No one is arguing about that. None of that matters when BlueSky turns into the next Xitter. Your social network is irrelevant when you can’t even find those people in a feed full of ads for weight loss supplements and unchecked disinformation.
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Maybe they have more users for the same reason you’re sick of hearing how much easier it is than Mastodon: because it’s easier than Mastodon. Users didn’t spontaneously materialize on BlueSky.
Ulrich@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Okay but…it’s not.