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The Bluesky surge happened after a massive global election result and a massive grievance from progressives/leftists over Musk and how Twitter has become. Indeed, if you think lemmy is politically partisan - then Bluesky is no different.

The Reddit -> Lemmy surge happened because of some poor Reddit admin decisions.

When the next fuckup from Big Tech comes around, do you think that people will think about going to Mastodon/Lemmy/PieFed, or they will just look at Bluesky?

It would depend on the site origin of the fuckup. If Reddit fucks up, as a reaction - Lemmy would get many new users.

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rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

The Bluesky surge happened after a massive global election result and a massive grievance from progressives/leftists over Musk and how Twitter has become

Why didn’t they go to Mastodon? (hint: some of them did in 2022)

If Reddit fucks up, as a reaction - Lemmy would get many new users.

Or perhaps there will be some other platform that is not so afraid of growth like Lemmy is, and people will go there, just like people went to Bluesky instead of going to Mastodon?

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- Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Why didn't they go to Mastodon? (hint: some of them did in 2022)
  
  No idea.
  
  Or perhaps there will be some other platform that is not so afraid of growth like Lemmy is, and people will go there, just like people went to Bluesky instead of going to Mastodon?
  
  Yeah, there might be. But it'd have to be pretty similar to Reddit. I don't know of any right now.
  
  I don't know how you think the fediverse is somehow afraid of growth though.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    No idea.
    
    People went to Mastodon and faced a number of UX issues:
    
    onboarding was difficult
    
    "Selecting an instance" is a chore
    
    How to find content
    
    No algorithmic recommendations
    
    Because getting content was hard, they were basically thrown into a whole new ecossytem and were greeted by the OG Mastodon users, who were not at all welcoming: , complaining about “their space” being invaded, had many displays of “opression olympics”, made a point of being extra loud about their extremist views as an attempt to scare normies, demanded everyone to learn “proper manners” right away, put content warnings on anything, etc.
    
    In other words, people didn’t go to Mastodon in 2024 because those that tried in 2022 were shunned away and left with the impression that the Fediverse is not for them.
    
    I don’t know how you think the fediverse is somehow afraid of growth though.
    
    For the reasons above. It’s not that they are “afraid of growth”, but the general culture on the Fediverse is reactionary and averse to change. Making it more universally appealing would mean bringing different people, and this is what they are afraid of.
    
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    Skavau@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    For the reasons above. It's not that they are "afraid of growth", but the general culture on the Fediverse is reactionary and averse to change. Making it more universally appealing would mean bringing different people, and this is what they are afraid of.
    
    What changes are people afraid of? What "different people" is the Fediverse afraid of?
    
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