Well, I'm still waiting for Twitter to "need a replacement". It seems to be doing just about fine on its new normal. Ditto for Facebook or any of the other Meta places, which have only consistently grown over time. Yes, including Facebook.
To be clear, I don't particularly mean too little to late for me. I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or any of those platforms, Bluesky and Fedi aside. And again, I was not on board with the Masto quote tweet thing. I did stop using it frequently, but not for that reason.
I mean too little to late to make an impact of any kind. Masto has been stuck where it is for a while, and so has Bluesky. I don't think either are going back to growing anytime soon, but if either does it probably won't be because Masto added quotes. I'm fairly comfy talking to the same dozen people out here like I'm in a 90s IRC channel, but ultimately it'd be nice if the gross places didn't keep driving the global conversation forever. And on that front... yeah, too little, too late.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 day ago
Not really related to the bulk of your comment but I’m curious (if you don’t mind sharing) what features you like from BlueSky, in comparison to Mastodon?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Custom feeds, subscribed blocklists, blocking/muting keywords for a period of time. Basically the moderation controls. My mental health is better when I can just turn off certain topics for a bit without abandoning them altogether.
If I remember right, mast has a feature where you can follow someone but only their self posts and not reposts. There are accounts that are repost machines and I don’t want to follow someone if I’m not getting to hear their own thoughts in their own words. I wish Bluesky had that.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 day ago
That makes a lot of sense; thanks so much!
skribe@piefed.social 1 day ago
Filters already mute keywords and can be set for specific periods of time. AFAIK*, subscribed blocklists were rejected because they could be used to target minority members by bad actors. How are custom feeds different from lists?
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I haven’t been on mast for a bit. Custom feeds can do things like give you the posts of your quieter folks, see only posts (not so useful if you could just select certain people to only see self-posts, but useful now), I can get a feed of what’s popular with my friends. Those are examples from my own, but there are tons of custom feeds.
Oh I forgot you can do things like a classifier and labeled, so I can choose to identify myself as a developer and see if someone else labels themselves similarly. There are a bunch of other labelers.
I am aware of the potential issues with subscribed blocklists, but I use a few anyway, and it saves me from doing a lot of blocking myself. It’s not perfect because it is abuseable , but I like having the choice to use it.
sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
You can do timed mutes of keywords, though the times aren’t as customizable as some people might like.