Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Alternate history: Bluesky never happens. Instead, some company opens up a Mastodon instance as a Twitter replacement. So instead of Bluesky with 12M+ users, there’s a Mastodon instance with 12M+ users. Now what?
vga@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
How do you algorithmically manipulate those 12M people with Mastodon?
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The usual way, whatever that is. What would Mastodon do about it? How do you manipulate Bluesky?
It’s the number in OP, so I ran with that. The fediverse number apparently excludes Gab and Truth Social. Makes sense, since those aren’t federated with the rest, but that also shows an issue.
vga@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
The same way you manipulate Twitter, by tweaking the algorithm.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s not how it works.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
It only has to be compatible with Mastodon, not necessarily be an actual Mastodon instance, see Meta’s threads.net.