Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

• drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are these users in the room with us? Because having 5m users for a centralized social network is laughable.

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  • MudMan@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hi, yes, I'm here. The user. Of both, in fact.

    Both Bluesky and Mastodon have their quirks and their different cultures. The feature sets of their protocols may also be different, but they sure aren't relevant to the experience at all, because federation is not a user-facing feature for the vast majority of the social media experience.

    Stop cheerleading for social networks. Social networks are not your friends, including Mastodon or the rest of the "fediverse".

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Social networks are absolutely our friends.

      Like it or not but it’s a part of our society that is here to stay. To imagine a world where we suddenly abandon social networks is just delusional.

      Also this might be an unpopular opinion but social networks are net good for the society despite the problems they’ve cause they’ve helped us solve many more.

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    • Tau@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can be friends with a social network if I know my admin and I’m in a small instance. That’s the power of federation.

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  • cosmic_slate@dmv.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    5 million on a currently-centralized platform is still doing significantly better than Mastodon.

    The constant whininess of Mastodon/ActivityPub-services users is a fantastic reason to completely steer clear of it.

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    • drmoose@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You know mastodon is 50M++ right?

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