Mastodawn

Albert Cardona

I'm so glad someone put this into words:

"Bluesky had a bunch of “stuff” but they’re trying to capture that 2008 Twitter lightning in a bottle which is a giant waste of time. We’re never going to go back to pretending that tweeting at politicians does anything and everyone there is desperately trying to build a “brand” as the funny one or whatever. I want news I don’t want your endless meta commentary on the news."

The description of Threads got a good chuckle:

"Threads was worthless because it’s the most boring social media website ever imagined. It’s a social media network designed by brands for brands, like if someone made a cable channel that was just advertisements and meta commentary about the advertisements you just saw. Billions of dollars at their disposal and Meta made a hot new social media network with the appeal of junk mail."

The #fediverse, and hence Mastodon, as the real deal:

"Actual human beings were able to find each other and ask direct questions without this giant mountain of bullshit engagement piled on top of it."

I'm all for it.

On the #fediverse :

"I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. I never expected a lot of things. But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in 1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American journalism to get here."

I did, because I was part of that early internet. So glad it's back, and made by us, again, and not corporations.

@albertcardona @Ruth_Mottram

Christine Johnson Mar 7

“that half the internet has never heard of”.

Unbelievable.

I’m sure WAY more than half the internet has never heard of the #fediverse.

@christinkallama @Ruth_Mottram

Perhaps thankfully.

Eggs now in different baskets.Mar 8

@albertcardona @Ruth_Mottram "Here" reminds me of IRC and newsgroups plus the websites of the early 1990s.

https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/

Strypey Mar 7

@albertcardona
> I'm so glad someone put this into words

I like these ones even better;

"There's no actual plan to self-host Bluesky. Their protocol makes it easier to scale their service. That's why it was written and that's what it does. End of story."

@matdevdug, 2026

Exactly! Titter's motive for funding BS was like corporate participation in Open Source, it's about externalising their costs to the community not participating in a commons.

#BlueSky