TK Wolf - Extra Life Nov 15-16Aug 15, 2023

Initial impressions of bluesky...

It's cluttered. There's a strong "fursuit pics or bust" kinda energy. Not much discussion/interaction, and has a lot of that Twitter feeling of everyone shouting into the void. Though there are a few ppl I'm actually communicating with that I wouldn't have otherwise. Might just need to tweak my follows.

I'm keeping Mastadon as my "home" and bluesky for occasionally dropping pics/updates and potentially good place to watch lots of artists.

Show threadKarpour
@tkwolf Bluesky in a year will be full of ads and tracking as Bluesky needs to make profits asap. Mastodon in a year will probably be mostly the same, hopefully with some UI improvements.
Aug 15, 2023 at 10:41amWeb
Show threadTwigAug 15, 2023
@karpour @tkwolf exactly. I'm not interested in "Twitter: The Sequel"
Show threadIkaniAug 15, 2023
@twigmouse @karpour @tkwolf same!
Show threadKilorat🐀Aug 15, 2023
@karpour @tkwolf
I still have hope that something will be done about discoverability here. Even if it's some kind of compromise with an opt-in search engine, or feed. I like meeting new people on social media, and finding content from people I don't know, it's hard to do that with just hashtags, and being limited to only people your server subscribes to.
Show threadTK Wolf - Extra Life Nov 15-16Aug 15, 2023
@kilorat @karpour I feel this. There are tending tags, and local server tabs.... It doesn't quite hit it though.
Show threadScatterplotAug 15, 2023

@kilorat @karpour @tkwolf Network-wide search has started landing in the upcoming v4.2.0 release.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26344

Add new public status index by jsgoldstein · Pull Request #26344 · mastodon/mastodon

This is a follow up to #25951 The idea here is to allow public posts by discoverable users to show up in search results. This is done by adding a new Public Status Index to Elastic Search. A status...

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Show threadKilorat🐀Aug 15, 2023
@Scatterplot @karpour @tkwolf That's a great step to at least adding bare minimum functionality.
What I was envisioning was a big aggregator that indexes the whole fediverse. Or it could be implemented as an instance you peer with, with special option that lets it follow all accounts, then for sure instance owners are on board with it happening.
Otherwise you're limited to only seeing posts on same instance, or posts from users followed from your instance.