I like having Bluesky because it is a non-Twitter, non-Facebook space where I can hear from all my friends who are unable or unwilling to use Mastodon (a site with real barriers to entry). I haven't talked to a lot of those folks much since 2022 and I missed them.
I have intricate arguments why Bluesky is the wrong technical model for a distributed social network. But if a person has already decided *for nontechnical reasons* that they aren't using Mastodon, those arguments mean nothing to them
There is a lot of Bluesky negativity on Mastodon and like, I am actually pretty negative on Bluesky?, but sometimes the negativity expands into attacking *Bluesky users* for making a Bad and Wrong decision, and not only is this mean¹, I feel like almost all of *those* critiques are deeply failing at empathetic imagination. You have to consider the Bluesky user's choice from *their perspective*.
¹ Sometimes being mean to a person is an ineffective way of convincing them to change their mind.
@mcc Fediverse "evangelists" honestly need to get over themselves. They definitely kill the vibe here in a bad way.
I love the Fediverse and I think it will be there when capitalism eats the other place, but hot damn it's so important to have a place people want to go and spend time with their friends.
mcc
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