Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky.

• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I mean you’re making my point here. More marketshare = more leverage over users.

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    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Okay but…it’s not.

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• realitista@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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).

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• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨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…

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Comtief@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry what do you mean? I see users posting from other instances in my mastodon app (I haven’t used it much).

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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