Matt BlazeMy decision about whether to try Bluesky depends on what everyone else does. I just want to be where everyone else is, and not be around too many Nazis. My needs are simple.
What I *don't* want is 10 zillion social media du jour accounts.
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyI think it depends on why you're on SocMed.
For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble, this is excellent.
For supporting yourself as an artist/creative, it is less good in terms of numbers, and because of hostility as opposed to support from randoms.
For maintaining a career in the public eye? Terrible, you earn the enmity of the media by being here, free from ads and popularity algorithms.
Everyone has to choose their own path.
Joost@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze "For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble"
Honestly, i feel like this is only half true, at least for me.
I see a lot of good, thoughtful conversation on Mastodon, and it’s blissfully free from disruption by trolls or haters. But it actually feels quite a lot like being inside a bubble, at least politically: the cultural, ideological and geographical horizon seems fairly narrow.
@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze I see plenty of good, thoughtful conversation on Twitter too, even now still (a question of following the right people). But it comes with pretty continuous disruption by trolling and hostility in comments from randos. On the flip side, the cultural-political-geographical horizon seems wider, as does the range of subjects that gets a critical mass of posts or knowledgeable users.