No.

Communication/Social Media isn’t for corporations to do what they want with it, or to manipulate their users. It needs a neutral, open platform. That means open source servers and clients and protocols.

I find it worrying how so many people noticed the decline of Twitter happening live and now continue to move to the next corporate, closed-down platform. Until the next time, I guess…

I refuse to support a corporate platform, whilst also adding nothing new to the agenda as well to make me want to go on Bluesky, so therefore I’m sticking with Mastodon/Fedi atm. Much more ethical that way.

Also much more fun and positive too with liked minded people on there too (except the Israel/Palestine stuff, which seems to be super divisive for some odd reasons in which it really shouldn’t be controversial at all but I digress tbh)

Also a way to say “fuck you” to Jack Dorsey too, who has ruined the internet, thanks to him tbh lol despite not being part of the Bluesky board anymore.

I’m following bsky’s progress. They have shared things which on a technical standpoint and from a social network empowerment perspective are very interesting. The portability of the profiles and the fully custom moderation layers are particularly noteworthy and seem to go far beyond what I’ve seen in other social networks. Even in mastodon apparently it is not possible to port a profile from one instance to another without losing all your post history (ente.io tried this recently and got caught by this). And for moderation, you have to rely on your instance moderation rather than personalized one. And the annotation part of bsky is also interesting to me.

Once in a blue moon I remember that I have a Mastodon account. And I use it mostly because of the cross-compatibility with other Fediverse applications, something that Bluesky lacks.

I suspect it has drawn people away from the fedi and back into the loving embrace of venture capitalists.

I think so, too. Even people who understand what federation is and why it’s good are still affected by network effect; “it’s federated” might weight a lot for them, but it is not a perfect shield.

I use both. I’m a member of a local instance on Mastodon. On Bluesky, I follow more mainstream outlets.

I’m not on board with having one account to interact with the fediverse. I like the compartmentalization of using one account for some things and another for other things. I also see value in diversification in case something goes wrong or takes too long to be improved or repaired. However, I also see substantial value in all social networks communicating with each other so you can choose a platform that aligns more with your wants and needs while still getting the information that’s relevant to you.

I just wish more “mainstream” outlets would get on board with the fediverse - either Mastodon or Bluesky. I really think towns and cities should invest in Mastodon instances where local government and other agencies could engage with the community (who may be members of other instances).

The “mainstream” outlets I follow on Bluesky are: Media Matters, The Conversation, Washington Post, BBC (unofficial), MacRumors, AP, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, etc.

The local outlets I follow on Mastodon are mostly twitter bots via bird.makeup: the local police department, the mayor, the newspaper, sports reporters, etc. I wish more bars / restaurants, music venues, local blogs and reporters were on the fediverse (looking forward to cross-posting from Threads).

I’m actually using RSS a lot more than either Mastodon or Bluesky because so few outlets are accessible on the fediverse.

@Jezebelley While it’s disappointing that communities I’m interested in seem to have moved there - I have zero interest in using something that will inevitably become enshittified.

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Why would I do that? I can’t leave comments on Lemmy posts and Peertube videos from there!

I think people just are fed up with Twitter and are looking for the most twitter-like thing they can find. Mastodon is, frankly, nothing like Twitter. The vibes are too different.

Nah, bluesky doesn’t really appeal to me. I like the tumbr-ish culture on Mastodon.

I use all three: mastodon, bluesky, and twitter. Mostly because people I follow are on different platforms. Personally, I would settle for mastodon alone. There is a recent big wave of artists moving from twitter to bluesky because twitter got new policy that makes it impossible to opt-out from using images posted on twitter as AI training material. Actually those new rules to me sound like they’re problematic in terms of author rights in general, not only AI stuff.

Neither, I never used Twitter in the first place so I didn’t need a Twitter alternative.
I think the Lemmy/Reddit style of posts and comments is much more intuitive and makes for easier engagement than the Twitter style of rolling status updates.

No. I don’t trust another corporate-owned platform, and I don’t trust the way they pay lip service to federation while still making everything dependent on one central server they control.

Bsky has actual people from twitter I wanted to follow that never bothered with mastodon

I gave Mastodon a couple of tries but I don’t think I lasted more than a few days in either instance. I’m just really not into that style of social media, regardless of who the provider of the service is. I do not understand the point of it nor how to “correctly” interact with it.

I also found Mastodon to be extremely confusing and so has every person that I have directed to it. Mastodon’s website and docs do a very poor job explaining how it works to people who are not already in-the-know about federated services. Lemmy was a bit confusing too but I had a much easier time grasping it - although that could be because I have more experience with Reddit-styled websites.

I wish it all the best because it seems like people are just making moves to other VC-owned, private, enshittified platforms that will abuse/exploit their users. I want Mastodon to succeed but often feel like it doesn’t doing much to help its own case.

Why would a person not just use both? You don’t have to just pick one.

I’m using Masto a few times a day and I generally like it. I get a good mix of news and pictures. I joined after Twitter became X.

I’m not on Bsky but frankly reading the comments in this thread makes me consider it