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ive been enjoying bluesky more than twitter. i just wish more bug accounts would migrate. i post on both platforms with a script that i wrote and my engagement/followers ratio is far higher
I tried Bluesky but just couldn't get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I'm liking Threads a bit, too.
What would you say makes threads better than the other mikroblogging services?
I think one of the main reasons is that a lot of tech people on Twitter ended up on there. Mastodon originally filled that spot for me, but I found that a bunch of people that moved from Twitter to Mastodon ended up abandoning their accounts (or very rarely posting) a few months later.
It's also probably the largest Fediverse instance, as users can opt in to sharing their posts to the Fediverse.
I still don't use it often, though. I don't spend a lot of time on any social networks (or similar services) any more.
Mastodon has shitty clients, the servers are slow and the communication across them is buggy. some things are still just broken.
typically I'll open the android client and stare for 15 seconds at a spinning "wait" symbol, and then I'll close it and not look at it for the rest of the day.
maybe it's the instance that I'm on? or maybe it's something else.
Yes, that might be your instance? I never had that problem. And I also think there are now some very good clients
Can you suggest a few.
Tusky has been working very well for me on Android. There's also Ice Cubes for iOS. Both are free and open source.
I like the long form posts and I also find those sort of sites way too fast-moving to keep up with.
Maybe it's because I'm an old man who grew up on BBSes, but forums are much more my speed.
Bug accounts, or big? Bug as in programming?
no like giant bugs
Lol, yes that's a very good point.