Well, there goes the Fediverse.
X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election
Submitted 5 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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rikudou@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Telorand@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Hardly. The Fediverse spans multiple apps and services, and it existed before Elon bought Twitter and it will continue existing regardless of what the billionaires do, because it’s not run by just one person.
The whole point is decentralization, not growth, so unless the billionaires can take out every server hosting an instance, the Fediverse isn’t going anywhere.
Tyfud@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This.
Back in the day this in his the internet worked. Every forum host was just some guy or girl hosting a platform so they cloths build a cunning with the people and hobbies they love.
We need to go back closer to that works. The fediverse bridges the gap between the centralized experience, and decentralized management.
Optimistically, it’s the best of both worlds.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I don’t think it’s the worst outcome or the Fediverse needing to be written off because of this. At least for now BridgyFed is a thing, and it’s not like we have to capture every refugee, Mastodon has thriving and tight-knit communities.
rikudou@lemmings.world 5 months ago
Most Mastodon groups are about Mastodon, Fediverse and the drama accompanying both.
variants@possumpat.io 5 months ago
I was just reading up on bluesky yesterday and you can self host and also have a bridge to link with the fediverse so maybe there is some hope to communicate
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The bridges are singular points of failure. If the bridge you use goes down you lose all your audience that was on that bridge. It’s better than nothing however. I will consider normies using threads and Bluesky a win as much as I can but it’d be so more ideal if we just all were on open and truly federated protocols instead of relying on half measures
variants@possumpat.io 5 months ago
Yeah I’ve been trying to convince an acquaintance to use mastodon instead of Twitter for a while then yesterday he mentioned he created a bluesky account and I had to look it up, not great but better I guess
maxenmajs@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s a start. At least ordinary people are leaving Twitter for another site in some capacity.
MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 months ago
We will be here when that goes to shit as well.
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yesterday I read on mastodon that leaving Twitter to go to Bluesky is like quitting smoking to start vaping. Changing a centralized place that lives off your data for another one. Right now Bluesky does not have hate speech like Twitter just because it does not suit the current accounts of its shareholders
Dasnap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think we just need to adopt the 2000s mindset again of dropping a platform when it gets shit. No one gave a fuck about the loss of Digg and Myspace.
Damage@feddit.it 5 months ago
Normies don’t do change
Greg@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I had a really good friend on MySpace that I lost touch with. I think he was a little paranoid, we didn’t speak much and he was always looking over his shoulder. His name was Tom.
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But now I have nostalgia for MySpace lol
BassTurd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Switching to vaping is less bad, and for me, it lead to me quitting all together. So to me, this is still a small win, and I like to celebrate small wins these days.
Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I would say quitting twitter to join bluesky is more like quitting menthols to smoke regular cigarettes, and switching to a decentralized platform would be more analogous to a switch to vaping. Quitting social media entirely would equate better to ‘quitting smoking’ in my mind, as i dont think any platform is mentally healthful (yes i am fully aware of the hypocrisy of posting this comment as a lemmy user).
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ok, if it’s good for you I’m glad, maybe over time it will happen to you like vaping and you can completely switch to decentralized networks
garretble@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t know if hate speech will be able to flourish on Bluesky like on twitter simply because of the moderation tools.
There’s already a giant blocklist of maga idiots who have tried to move over, and if you follow that list you’ll never see their posts. And the unwritten rule of the place is to block anyone who is trying to start stuff or that you simply don’t like. On twitter that felt taboo for some reason, but on Bluesky that’s normal - as it should be, really.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Where can I jump on this list?
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I left Twitter years ago, but I think you could also block whoever you want, whether people do it more or less is independent of the site, the moderation tools are the same. 3
What’s more, I am 100% sure that if in a few years Bluesky considers it economically beneficial for its shareholders that these tools “have occasional failures” this will happen without a doubt. This is something that if happens in Mastodon, changing the node you are done
pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Doesn’t that just create an echo chamber of idiots? Assuming they stay instead of leaving after their fe-fes get hurt, of course.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 5 months ago
atproto.com/guides/self-hosting it’s not so bad; they’re a lot more open than people giving them credit for. it’s just not as federated - yet
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It has a single owner who makes the decisions and makes profitable the contributions of the users. It is a social media model that has been over for me for some time now, if they are open the better for them, I am not going to join anyway.
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Twitter started dying when they closed the API
Bluesky’s is perfectly operational
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Ok, if for you the API is the most important thing, go ahead, I’m worried about more companies doing “things” with my data, everyone has their priorities.
P.S. Unlike in BlueSky in Mastodon you can be 100% sure that the API will never be closed, in Bluesky it will depend on variable business interests
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Those would all have to be true in order for anyone to have a reason to put trust into Bluesky.
Iapar@feddit.org 5 months ago
How is mastodon not just a bunch of centralized platforms?
Sure the servers communicate with each other but the content is still just on one of them. Goes the server, so goes the content.
Or am I mistaking?
If it is like I say I feel it is more trading Hitler in for, potentially, a bunch of smaller Hitlers.
Lanthanae@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is what decentralized means. If your home instance goes to shit, you can just move your account to another one.
Foni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Well, I am not a systems engineer to answer your question, in any case smaller Hitlers equals Hitlers with less power. Dividing power is not the definitive solution to authoritarianism, but it usually helps a lot, especially if the agents are also competitive. “If you are too Hitler, I’ll go to this other server that is a little less so” is a valid incentive to avoid the Hitlerization of the admins.
I don’t think I’ve ever used the name Hitler so much.
index@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Isn’t it decentralized?
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not really. You can host your own data but you still rely on Bluesky’s services to access it. And there is no realistic way to migrate your content or audience to another platform outside their control