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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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[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I used mastodon for a year. It didn’t really work out for me. I just took so much effort to find content or build an audience.

I didn’t go to threads because it’s owned by Zuck. But Bluesky is FOSS add free and decentralised, so I tried it out, and honestly (I’ll probably get hate here for this) but the experience is far better than mastodon. There’s an algorithm, everything works. Mastodon had always been buggy for me. The UI is nice, the community is nice etc.

Plus thanks to bridgy, all of my bluesky posts are automatically displayed on mastodon and I can follow people from mastodon on bluesky.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

decentralised

Is it really? I always heard that it's impossible to have another server independent from Bluesky's

Anyway, thank you for your comment!

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080334/bluesky-self-hosting-servers-data-federated

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

In its developer’s blog, Bluesky stressed that “guardrails” are still in place. Most significantly, users can only self-host their own accounts for now, and in the next phase, self-hosted servers will initially be limited to 10 accounts each, with rate limits on usage.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah I’m self hosting. But the fact they are working towards it is what matters most. Bluesky has only been publicly available for a couple months at this point.