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I've been reading that BlueSky has reached critical mass and is snowballing well at the moment. I suspect it has drawn people away from the fedi and back into the loving embrace of venture capitalists.

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

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.