Official account of Bluesky announced that it got 1 million new users since the registration was opened to everyone.

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    11 months ago

    “Mastodon? Why use a free decentralized option when I can give my data to a billionaire?” - People around me.

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      There are some advantages to a centralized platform, I hope them being a “public benefit corporation” (haven’t had time to study what that means nor much desire cause it’s probably a U.S. thing), but as long as it doesn’t get enshittifed that’s still a net win.

      Although obviously this won’t be a popular opinion on a decentralized platform like Lemmy.

      I’ll use this along with Signal (which is non profit), in hopes that it’s impossible for them to sell out/sell our data/sell ads.

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    I don’t think Bluesky is better than any instance on Fediverse, but we need to make changes I guess.

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        It won’t be, because it’s just another Twitter.

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          It feels like the Twitter from just before Elon when it was still bad but not terrible, I was hoping it would be more like the Twitter from 10+ years ago when it was still reasonable.

          I waited 4 months for my invite, took a look around and went back to Mastodon.

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            You’d have to go back 10 years for that, modern discourse is poisoned, and even then things weren’t that rosy back then for all.

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                I mean if you wanted anything like what you had 10 years ago you’d have to go back 10 years. I don’t think it’s possible to ever have anything like what it was back again any time soon.

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                  I was talking about Twitter. 10 years is not a long time.

                  I don’t see much has changed in the last 10 years fundamentally, if you’re comparing 20 years ago I might agree.

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          Old twitter was bad, modern twitter pays to show everyone bigoted propaganda and actively courts Nazis. Mastodon is better, but most don’t want the inconveniences. So yeah blue sky it is

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          11 months ago

          Yeah but if mastodon itself (the community and content) isn’t better, then it’s a moot point

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            Oh get the fuck out of here. All Bluesky has is celebrities and celebrity journalists, big fuckin whoop.

            I’d way rather talk to real human beings instead of the Public Relations Team of a bunch of wankers.

            Sorry, most humans are obsessive about stupid celebrity culture, and that doesn’t mean it’s a better product. It means it’s a more vapid product.

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              I’m glad blue sky exists for two reasons:

              1. It will likely contribute to more Elon meltdowns
              2. It acts as a containment zone for celebrity and brand worship that’s marginally less bad than twitter
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                Celebrity and brand containment zone is the first good argument I’ve heard to date.

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              Settle down dude.

              A big chunk of the comic art people from twitter went there. The art community on Mastodon is very mid. So that’s a big part of why I like Bluesky.

              And while I don’t care about following journalists personally, that’s arguably one of the major things people want out of a twitter-like platform. Breaking news.

              Threads is much worse for celebrity bullshit.

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      I really wanna like mastodon more and have tried 3 different instances now (2 niche and one larger instance) but I like the community on bluesky better for my particular niche. It seems to be where a lot of art twitter went when things got shitty over there.

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        I saw many artists going to Misskey.io because it’s main instance even English speaking ones until they gone back to twitter, stayed on Misskey or half measures. Then because of EN influx in mainly Japanese server , Misskey.io closed doors to non-Japanese add in fact that Misskey or rather any federated service can’t oblige to European Union protection standard which means they can’t operate in EU officially.
        So I see lots of messages on Misskey about artists making blue sky accounts as well… All depends where they get more views I guess or have people supporting them around.

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    The only thing I care about is: Will this be enough to pull critical mass from Twitter? I don’t think I’ll ever join, because twitter life made me very unhappy, but the sooner journalists and high-volume celebs move off twitter, the sooner it can be relegated to Truth Social 2 and that, I think, will make the world a slightly better place.

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    I signed up few days ago, but I learned that I still don’t care about twitter style platforms. I prefer Reddit like platforms where the focus lies on the subject instead of the person.

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      Yup, Mastodon never appealed to me, I think I made like 10 tweets total (mostly for promotions of some kind), and I bailed on Facebook when I realized I got no value from it.

      But Reddit immediately appealed to me, and Lemmy is good enough.

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      I kinda get the „this person seems nice/knowledgeable“ but still have issues with the shallowness of conversations, self proclaimed „experts“ and ungodly long and boring posts some of the instances allow for.

      For some reason, lemmy allows for even longer posts but here they arent that long and if they are, they’re often structured/formatted, concise and informative instead of just a stream of conciousness.

      I feel like twitter-likes need fast, relevant, whitty answers while redditlikes need thought out, deep answers like a forum.

      Anyone else feel like this?

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        I feel like twitter-likes need fast, relevant, whitty answers while redditlikes need thought out, deep answers like a forum.

        There are plenty of short witty responses on Reddit-like platforms too, but I think the context influences what people upvote/like. On Twitter, you only see the tweet and the response, but on reddit-like platforms you see the original topic and responses, before scrolling down to see a specific response.

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          I never said there are no short, witty responses. I‘m saying the majority/most upvoted total imo are the long, great explanations.

          I agree that the design influences this.

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    I signed up and so far my feed seems to be dominated by a lot of bird pics. I guess that’s fitting for a site called bluesky?

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        11 months ago

        Fun fact since you may not be aware, but not all owls are nocturnal. And even those that are considered nocturnal are often active at dusk (after sun set but before the sky has gone dark). So, it could still work.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    bluesky is great because - at least in my feed - it’s pretty much tumblr from 2010 but also a safe haven for trans ppl :)

    also book twitter - especially romance book twitter - moved over there and that was my favourite part of twitter.

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    sad that twitter users will jump to literally anything except mastodon. wake me up in 15 years when bluesky finishes its twitter elon musk cycle and it’ll be like i took a 12 second nap

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      11 months ago

      mastodon also refused to implement basic features that make things easier like cross instance searching and quote posting and then started being rude to people asking about them when the initial exodus happened

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        Same thing is happening with Misskey. A lot of interesting features there that don’t federate. Wonder how Bluesky is going to handle that in their protocol.

        Sidenote: a lot of confidently incorrect people in the comments for this (not you). Not really getting people on-board with fedi, are they?

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    11 months ago

    That’s great news. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

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    11 months ago

    Signed up just to get my ID, and make sure no one else can have it.