Extremely NON Marie Antoinette voice: « Let them join Bluesky »
Dear people of the Fediverse, do not feel disappointed to see so many people doing a mass migration from X and Threads to Bluesky. I think it’s a GOOD thing they are headed there.
What attracts them to a network with visible metrics and custom algorithms means they are not ready for the Fediverse. And I wouldn’t want them to change the (awesome) culture of this place. As @sennoma said earlier, let the Fediverse grow slowly
@_elena @sennoma Even if the Twitter quitters go to BlueSky rather than here, it's still a net positive for Mastodon:
1) X/Twitter is a toxic cesspit. Fewer people using it is a positive for society as a whole.
2) Each person who leaves means less content and less engagement for the remaining users, and a worse signal-to-noise ratio, making it more likely they'll go too.
3) Conversely, it means more discussion, more engagement on a non-X/Twitter platform.
4) Already, BridgyFed allows some BlueSky posts to appear here, and some posts here to appear there. More BSky users means more people who'll eventually adopt BridgyFed.
5) Long-term, there's scope for better federation beyond BridgyFed between the Fedi and BSky. When that happens, more BSky accounts mean more accounts here.
UPDATE: Some additional thoughts here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ajsadauskas/113336898754663899
Attached: 3 images Some further thoughts on @[email protected]'s post yesterday (https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113332849196888527). Even before the dodgy car salesman bought it, Twitter's algorithm and character limit tended to favour bad faith posts. As in, deliberately provocative post written in bad faith — either from the left or the right — would tend to perform better than a well-thought through thread based on facts and logic. Over the past couple of days on BSky, there's been an influx of Twitter regulars either creating or reactivating their accounts, and immediately making the same sorts of posts. Some screenshots of the sorts of posts I'm talking about, from @[email protected]'s recently reactivated dormant account, below. (My issue with these posts isn't with the poster's position on trans politics or Israel, but rather how these arguments are made. Namely, by immediately attacking and insulting other users, and misrepresenting the counter arguments. Clearly, bad faith posting.) Those posts are likely to not get the same traction they would on X/Twitter. Some will go back to Elon's app and cry that they're not getting the same traction. Meanwhile, the people who are posting in good faith will find their natural home over time, whether it's here or BSky. BSky handling this round of triage is not necessarily a bad thing...
I like Mastodon but of my social media minded friends, I believe I am the only one still here. I am involved in some hashtag based communities
Viewed objectively Bluesky seems to offer the possibilities of networking and discovery that existed for a few years on the hellsite and which supported artists and other small creators.
I plan to remain active on both.
@_elena @sennoma One thing I'm happy with in particular is that for a while there it was looking like Threads was the heir to the X throne but this challenges that narrative and there still isn't just one place to point to for the migration.
I also don't think people will necessarily keep going to Bluesky indefinitely, fedi could still become the main destination for some future waves.
@_elena @sennoma
I started my work on #socialmedia right away on a higher level of consciousness and not via a detour through something else.
@_elena It's a shame they use a different protocol. On Threads I think I could cross-post good toots from Mastodon accounts as a sort of advertising for Mastodon. I'm not sure that works well on Bluesky when you have to go through a bridge.
In any case, the collapse of 𝕏 should give other platform operators pause if they are thinking of anti-user policies.
Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from *all* of the same problems as Mastodon. Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.
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