what's the problem with mastodon?
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Mom said tomorrow is my turn to post the Bluesky article.
I'm liking bluesky a lot, seems like they rolled back most of twitters toxicity. I'm seeing a lot of communities jump over and I'm all for it, we need more options on social media.
Yeah, the constant negative circlejerking on Lemmy is getting pretty tiresome.
More competition is better.
I have to agree. Blocking hexbear and ml helped a lot
I have never seen a hexbear user tbh
Pretty sure they defederated with SJW, that would explain why
that would make sense, thanks!
The collapse of X should've been the movement to get rid of social media, not replace it with another identical platform
...he said on social media...
Okay, so it's a link aggregate, but still.
Why everyone's so happy about BlueSky and Threads though is what pisses me off, and it's that's they are in the safe arms of a corporate daddy.
Submissive little shites.
Decentralized/OSS platforms >>> Multiple competing centralized platforms >>> One single centralized platform
Bluesky and Threads are both bad but having more options than Twitter/X is still a step in the right direction, especially given the direction Musk is taking it in. As much as I like the fediverse (I won't be using either Threads or BlueSky anytime soon), it still has a lot of problems surrounding ease of use. Lemmy, Mastodon, Misskey, etc. would benefit a lot from improving the signup process so that the average user doesn't need to be overwhelmed with picking an instance and understanding how federation works.
My guess is most normal people just want to be where every other normal person is and to have comment moderation enforced.
You're not wrong about Lemmy also being social media, but I view it as my methodone for Reddit. Long term I think I will get rid of Lemmy too.
I think giving it up is sort of a cop out. It's like saying because all new movies suck, that you should stop watching films.
The good thing about Mastodon I feel is that people are more sincere than what you'll find here, or even on Threads.
I also think Beehaw has a good idea by being strict. If you dislike the brainrot, remove the brainrot. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
I already ask useful things on lemmy, find guides and read interessant articles, maybe Lemmy is not as bad as other socials
In all likelihood that experience will be temporary, in one of two ways. Either Lemmy becomes mainstream enough to enshittify beyond your tolerance, or Lemmy atrophies into obscurity and ceases being a platform with any benefit.
Which will happen, and on what timescale it will happen? Who knows. But I wager one of those outcomes is inevitable before too long. The "chill, somewhat unknown but appreciably active platform" position is long-term an unstable one.
Until then, we're all just in time to bask in the warm glow of this little experiment for at least a little while.
Platforms like Twitter are incredibly useful for following public figures and journalists, your feed doesn’t have to be all brainrot. Having a similar platform that’s not in the hands of a billionaire freak is in the public interest.
But it is all brain rot since they changed their algorithm and started feeding me what posts they want to feed and showing me people Idon’t follow
Both platforms have a chronological “following” feed. That’s the only one I look at.
RSS rests in peace
Yeah but bluesky isn't that.
I hate that social media business news qualifies as "technology" these days.
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Despite the predictable dumpster fire of a comment section sharing this would inevitably lead too, I’m glad you shared it, it was a pleasant read.
So tired of hearing about this platform that, afaiu, is barely even federated and not really decentralized. Why the hype when fedi exists?
Talkin' 'bout the placebo syndrome.
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