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What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 months ago by dch82@lemmy.zip to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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What made everybody move from a corporate social media platform to another corporate social media platform instead of the fediverse?

After all, the Fediverse and Activitypub is much more mature than Bluesky and the copycat AT protocol or Threads and ... whatever they use.

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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 14 points 3 months ago

I'm not on any of the services currently, but I have tried Mastodon in the past and point 4. was what made me bounce off it. I know Mastodon flaunts its algorithm-free feed as almost a point of pride, but as a user it just doesn't do it for me. I could not get it to serve me the type of content I wanted the way I wanted, and it just felt like way too much work for what I was looking for.

[-] doctortofu@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

I solved this issue by following multiple tags that interest me. People tend to tag their posts on Mastodon it seems, so discovering posts about, say, wine and cacti is as easy as following #wine #cactus #cacti #redwine #oragewine and so on and so forth - it's working pretty good for me without an algorithm recommending stuff to me, maybe it's worth a try?

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago

I'd still rather have algorithmic recommendations of what's been "hot" lately in the tags I follow over a chronological feed. But I'm considering giving Sharkey/Firefish/Iceshrimp another go.