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[–] win95@lemmy.zip 65 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

what do you mean reasons other than us politics? do other kinds of reasons even exist?

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 24 points 22 hours ago

Not surprising, they are trying to redirect people on bluesky not on the fediverse

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I saw a lot of bizarre shit from there through my federated Mastodon instance…

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 9 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 8 points 19 hours ago

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.

[–] discimus@mander.xyz 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 19 hours ago

More bluesy ads?

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

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.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.

[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

anything specific you can call out for those of us who have zero interest in moving to another centralized platform?

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Cool, how do we convinced the Masto devs of this apparent fact?

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

We tried. They ignore the vast majority of feedback given to them.

The Mastodon user experience really needed to be simplified greatly to attract Twitter users, because what's a platform without other users on it to connect to? At this point I feel as if they may have blown their chance.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don't really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can't leave FB/IG/Reddit because 'that's where all the cool kids are'. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.

Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.

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[–] index@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

If you are wondering how bluesky is gaining so much traction that's how. ADS.

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