This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I've been on bluesky for a while (over a year). My (leftist) bubble was complaining about how boring it was for the longest time. Now I keep seeing people complaining about the influx of the "new" people joining. And here I am complaining about the complainers. Oh, to be a human on the internet.
I think the decentralized nature and barrier of entry might keep lemmy in the stage of the "good old days" of reddit before all the people flooded in and sorta ruined it
what do you mean reasons other than us politics? do other kinds of reasons even exist?
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention Misskey. It's a Federated platform that connects with Mastodon and the like, and has close to a million users. After Mastodon it's the most active platform in the Fediverse, and owes most of its popularity to Japanese users.
Not surprising, they are trying to redirect people on bluesky not on the fediverse
I saw a lot of bizarre shit from there through my federated Mastodon instance…
Let's just say that decentralized social media lets Japanese users post stuff other mainstream platforms won't.
So yeah, there's a lot of lolicon.
they are basically running a huge marketing campaign and a few halfwits on the fediverse are promoting a 'competing' platform.
nothing new under the sun.
More bluesy ads?
Seems to be mainly because Bluesky is just a better user experience.
Changes in terms of service regarding AI (artificial intelligence), changes in the block feature and the presence of so many bot-like ‘impression zombie’ accounts are viewed negatively by Japanese users
But, X is still incredibly important in Japan and Bluesky isnt a serious threat to it culturally right now.
X is still a major, major news source for Japanese users, so it really won't slow down anytime soon. Newer platforms like Threads or Bluesky really don't have any meaningful adoption or use for brand marketing in Japan — yet
Anecdotally, a lot moved to Insta or maintain both xitter and insta, but yeah, there's no real inertia to move and, outside of otaku circles, it seems that mastodon and the fediverse are basically unknown.
I would love to see more Japanese moving over to Bluesky. I've effectively moved there, but can't really leave Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese game devs there, and they don't have a strong reason to leave like Americans do.
Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?
Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.
Neither does Bluesky.
For mine and a lot of niches there is :).
The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.
anything specific you can call out for those of us who have zero interest in moving to another centralized platform?
You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.
I mean, don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answers to, I suppose.
Because all of the cool people are there! Don't you want to be cool, too?
If you are wondering how bluesky is gaining so much traction that's how. ADS.
