• Bebo
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    241 year ago

    What’s so special about bluesky that people are migrating there?

    • Polar
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      281 year ago

      Old CEO of Twitter is involved.

      Usually when something turns to shit, and the original CEO leaves to create a similar product, people follow. With games, software, even hardware.

      • @makeawishkid@programming.dev
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        131 year ago

        BS is run by an independent team, and Jack recently deleted his BS account. He’s promoting Nostr.

        The invite only is helping build the science Community create their circles without misinformation being pushed or shouted at them.

        Currently BS also has one server, so it’s easier for most people to use it unlike mastodon instances. The custom feeds also help with community building.

      • Bebo
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        11 year ago

        Oh yes, this reason makes sense.

    • @Captain_Calico@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      The big thing is that it is invite only. Also, I find it easier to use than mastodon.

      Another point, I need more shitpost in my feed. I fucked up with my mastodon feed and have too much political crap on there. I ended up saving a good amount of invites and invite only to small group people I like and want to keep touch with (no rando). So, I ended up with a small cohort of people over there that I can share thoughts and photos with.

      • Bebo
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        41 year ago

        I guess different people have different use cases. I am enjoying Mastodon and have had positive interactions with people. I have also found a lot of good quality content there. Additionally, I totally avoid political stuff so haven’t had any issues of political stuff messing up my feed. IMO the invite only thing is just increasing attractiveness by creating artificial scarcity.

        • Stad.social Admin
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          31 year ago

          @Bobo @Captain_Calico

          I think some people are also scared off by the spread-out, volunteer nature of things.

          We’re betting at least some people (and we only need a small number; we’re not greedy) will feel more comfortable with a paid service with an actual company (not launched yet). Won’t ever be a large portion of Fediverse users, but I think a broad diversity of options will be what will ensure the Fediverse “wins” in the long run.

          • Bebo
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            21 year ago

            Really, variety of options and potential interlinkage with other kinds of Fediverse projects is what really excites me about the Fediverse.

        • @Captain_Calico@lemmy.world
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          21 year ago

          I think the invites feature is the only things bluesky really has. At this point, I don’t mind as much as the feature allowed me to control who is in my feed and made my feed more intimate like the early days of Facebook. For me, it was a way to weirdly combat parasocial relationships by inviting people I know and talk to.

          Theoretically. I can do the same for mastodon. But once I start trying to explain fediverse, they didn’t care for it. Fediverse idea is interesting, but loses most people I want to keep in touch with.

          • Bebo
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            51 year ago

            One of the things I really like about Mastodon is that I can curate my feed to show only what I am interested in by following hashtags and/or people and muting those people whose posts I don’t want to see. There’s no hidden algorithm controlling my feed, pushing controversial posts towards me and other stuff. So I don’t get why would you need the invite only feature of bluesky control your feed?

            • @Captain_Calico@lemmy.world
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              11 year ago

              Because it is harder to get people I know on board to mastodon than to bluesky. I don’t want too many random people on my feed. Most of my feed consists of people I do know and actually interact with. Mastodon doesn’t have as much shitposting as I would like and takes awhile for it to get situated to the point I ended not using it. Why bother going to mastodon when I have my friends on bluesky.

              • Bebo
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                OK understood why you prefer bluesky.

    • @Traumkaempfer@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      What I hear a lot is

      • they are following other people there
      • they don’t know how to use Mastodon and prefer Bluesky
      • people on Mastodon keep telling them that they aren’t using it correctly
      • reply guys on Mastodon who think they know everything better than the scientists