Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.
The platform has 57 third party apps.
The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.
Because they liked Twitter, and Bluesky is (presumably) like Twitter before Elmo bought it.
Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?
Submitted 4 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to fediverse@lemmy.world
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electric_nan@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
What is with all these wall of text answers guys?
Twitter people like Twitter and Twitter man for making it. Twitter now not Twitter is now X and no more Twitter man. Twitter people not like TeslaSpace man. Twitter man make BlueSky.
No elephant needed to make this story work. Remember: twitter brain cannot handle too many characters.
Sergebr@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival. Also, in this case, they apparently don’t see a problem with leaving Twitter because it’s MAGA to join BS which is backed by MAGA money. Convenience über alles. Ethics be damned. I’m fine with people like that not joining the fediverse.
Emperor@feddit.uk 4 months ago
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I have a friend who has had a mastodon instance since it was gnu social, and there are two reasons I stopped using it.
First, the UI sucks. He installed 3 or 4 different skins and they were all barely usable. I don’t want or need something flashy, xfce is my favorite windows manager, but it needs to at least work and not be confusing.
Second, the people suck. It went from being okay to by the time I left I don’t think I was seeing any exchanges that didn’t have antisemitism or racism.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because no one made a droolproof guide to migrating to Mastodon and Bluesky put money into it.
For people who can’t remember their password, it’s preferable.
grimer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Simplicity.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
install mastodon
Pick an instance
Hit up all
giant penis
That’s why. That’s the reason.
but you could review the instance beforehand…
Is Jimbo Normalman going to review the instance beforehand? Lmao.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
All those federated platform will only become popular if the backend is dumb and the frontend is smart, i.e. you create your account on a frontend but can use the same credentials to connect via another frontend and no matter which frontend you connect to, all content for the platform is accessible to you, there’s no admin having control over your experience, only people offering different UI experiences. Federation/defederation/deciding to host NSFW content, that’s all taken care of behind the scene just like on Reddit, for the user they’re just using Lemmy via frontend X or Y and they decide what communities and users they want to block.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 months ago
Bluesky s federated and mit licensed
_pi@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
This practically means nothing tbh. Social networks when they gain economies of scale due to the network effect will effectively shed all the pretense of open source and open platform etc.
We’ve seen it with Facebook, Google, etc, during the 2010’s with closing of chat standards and destruction of XMPP. We’ll see it again.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I’m talking about Mastodon and Lemmy and such since that’s what OP is complaining about
Lightsong@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People like simple and easy to use.
Bluesky got that, fediverse in general don’t have that.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 months ago
Bluesky is federated
Lightsong@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah that’s why I said fediverse in general.
Intergalactic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I wrote an article on this last night.
communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 months ago
Since bluesky is mit licensed, what’s to stop a fork if something goes wrong?
what’s to stop a activitypub and atproto compatibility?
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I’m sure a certain percentage of people can’t spell mastodon.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Star power. High production values. Less complex (appears to be more centralized, immediately easy to conceptualize as “twitter but not right wing”)
Today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I tried bluesky (bs?) for 5 minutes. Clicked one thing, saw the comment “Sunsets are my love language,” and realized that these are not my people.
bilb@lem.monster 4 months ago
Because you install the app, make an account, and use it and now it has more celebs I guess.
demizerone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
We need a community owned centralized service. I don’t think this model is a good one for social media, it’s too complicated.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Why is anyone usi5any of them? They’re all clogged toilets overflowing the same shit onto the flower.
Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 4 months ago
It’s because of the connotation with an overrated metal band of the same name.
/s for the overly serious
oxjox@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.
The platform has 57 third party apps.
The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.
Are you asking about “people” or “nerds”? People prefer Bluesky due to its simplicity and momentum. There are more popular outlets using it. If you’re assuming that People would prefer the complexity of the Fediverse and instances, if you think People know what a decentralized community run server is, you’re a “nerd” (for lack of a better term, I’m sorry).
The battle has always been the same: Windows v. Apple, Android v. iOS, SMS Twitter v. App Twitter. Some people prefer flexibility and investing time in making things work the way they want (Nerds). Some people want an out of the box product that’s well designed and efficient (People).
Fifty Seven Third Party Apps is not a selling point - that’s called anxiety inducing fragmentation. Some people want to walk down the grocery store aisle and choose between 57 options for toilet paper and some people just want “good”, “better”, “best”. The reality is that most people just want to be told what to do. They have too much shit going on in their lives to care about “decentralization”.
Mastodon will never challenge well financed closed or semi-open platforms. As it’s designed, it’s apparent it never intended to. It will continue to grow at a slow rate as an alternative. Hopefully, the fediverse is realized and you can choose to host your own server and gain access to other social platforms.
The reality is that this stuff costs money. In the near future, you’ll have the same three choices with social media as we do with other services: ad-subsidized, subscription, self-hosted. Anything with ads is going to have an algorithm. Anything with a subscription is going to have a board of directors. Selfhosting comes with a steep learning curve.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 months ago
whay, or rather who is Blue sky?
Today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Can you guys help explain it to someone completely inexperienced?
I had Twitter but only used it for following music venues to see upcoming events and bars for happy hour updates. I have a Mastodon account but only played with it for a few minutes because i didn’t really get it. I don’t understand following a person. What can one person have to say that i would care enough about to download an app. What am i missing?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.
sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Imagine if there were two twitters, and you only sign up for one but you can read and comment on posts for both.
Now imagine if anybody can install their own Twitter, and anybody else can sign up on either one, and they can all talk to each other like that.
Today@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It wasn’t why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.