Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon?

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Why do People Choose BlueSky Over Mastodon? - Lemmy

I’s heard news that BlueSky has been growing a lot as Xitter becomes worse and worse, but why do people seem to prefer BlueSky? This confuses me because BlueSky does not have any federalization technologies built into it, meaning it’s just another centralized platform, and thus vulnerable to the same things that make modern social media so horrible. And so, in the hopes of having a better understanding, I’ve come here to ask what problems Mastodon has that keep people from migrating to it and what is BlueSky doing so right that it attracts so many people. This question is directed to those who have used all three platforms, although others are free to put out their own thoughts. (To be clear, I’ve never used Xitter, BlueSky or Mastodon. I’m asking specifically so that I don’t have to make an account on each to find out by myself.)

Yhea your first mistake is thinking that 99% give a flying fuck about federation

It just makes it’s more complex to adopt

Bluesky ?

Go on there, sign-up, done

Everything works.

Nothing else to do. Nothing to understand.

This is the only correct answer.

It’s easy to get on and it works just like Twitter. People don’t even need to understand what Federation is to get up and running on the platform.

The lemmy devs should add a feature to their website where you can just create and account and it creates and account on an instance that is closest geographically to the IP address you are connecting from and is federated with the most servers.

Single place for normies to make an account and they don’t have to think about the federation bits, but if they get interested they can always make an account manually on another instance.

That would be helpful.

Probably some filter would be needed. Like a list of curated instances.

Imagine if the geographically closest is the Furry instance.