Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.

• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It only has to be compatible with Mastodon, not necessarily be an actual Mastodon instance, see Meta’s threads.net.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you algorithmically manipulate those 12M people with Mastodon?

  The usual way, whatever that is. What would Mastodon do about it? How do you manipulate Bluesky?

  BTW, Bluesky has almost 40M users.

  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.

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  • vga@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you manipulate Bluesky?

    The same way you manipulate Twitter, by tweaking the algorithm.

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    • General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not how it works.

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