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How to Use Bluesky If You’re Leaving X (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For sure. It has a bunch of network effects that didn't really develop on mastodon though, and that makes it useful in a way that the latter is not. In particular, if I want to exercise influence, I'm much more likely to be able to do that on BlueSky than on Mastodon, which makes it a must-use platform for me.

I think a few key technical features helped make that happen:

The nuclear block, which delinks past replies and quotes of a hostile individual.
You are not buying into a moderation policy by choosing a server. This is a really big deal because people ended up on servers they didn't really agree with and had bad experiences
Feeds which let you do custom algorithmic choices about what to see make it lot easier to surface interesting content
Starter packs simplified onboarding