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.

Note: I don't know if I specifically agree with this argument but I think it is very, very interesting

https://mastodon.social/@WAHa_06x36/113529737516750973

@eramdam @mcc I mean, fedi survives events like this about as well as CAP theorem allows it to (as does bluesky with its different tradeoffs). Maybe even better than it seems like it ought to. It's not a happy time (especially for those on m.s) but it does eventually heal.

It does place an upper bound on the growth rate of Mastodon, and eventually people self-select out as registration is locked down, but it doesn't actually *break* anything.

That does mean it's good that there was and is another alternative to bounce to, but the failure mode is more annoying/unappealing (to andi's original point) than catastrophic.

@mcc @megmac @eramdam I meant it in sort of all of those senses. And yes, the social issues would probably be the worst of it.

But the technical side too, but for social reasons: The network COULD grow to accommodate the inflow, but that requires both money and human effort, and that is currently provided by goodwill, which is a very finite resource.

The fediverse thrives under slow, organic growth where goodwill can also grow slowly.