This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Let me get this straight:
This doesn't really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.
He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he's a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.
Bluesky is dead. Long live Mastodon.
Maybe we need to start writing our own articles like this.
is bluesky privately owned? What is preventing this whole thing just happening again?
I love that the people who weren't smart enough to leave Twitter two years ago are now eagerly jumping from one frying pan into another.
Fortunately there have been a few who learned their lessons a bit late and came over to Mastodon.
But the rest of them? The one who tolerated the racism and misogyny that Musk brought with his red pilled idiots? Let them have Blue Sky and the rest of us can watch as history eventually repeats itself.
This one is probably also run by a right wing techie as well
I'm OK with that, as long as they keep their mouths shut.
Maybe they should have done this about a year ago.
Just because democrats are leaving Twitter, this doesn't make it dead in the slightest sense of the word
The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow--as always.
there's quite a few people in this thread with the same weird vitriol as reddit had.
if someone uses bluesky and you don't, then why make yourself upset over it? i have both mastodon and bluesky. i use both.
I'm not sure why everything has to be a weird competition. some weird us vs. them shitfight.
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
And we know what kind of control the platform owners have. "Just" doesn't cut it I think.
Because I have seen 10 posts about how Bluesky is the new Twitter on my Lemmy feed in two days. I overreacted a bit, but what you say goes both ways. Absolutely use what you like but there is no need to spam a new platform like that.
Use word filters for the things you don't want to see.
The same happened when everyone moved over from Dig to Reddit back in the day. It's really annoying for like 2 weeks with everyone talking about it, and then it calmed down.
2 weeks? it was a lot longer than that. I mean hell there was a god damn multi-part comic about the "war" between digg and reddit. early reddit was a cringefest.
I do remember there was a sub about it. Don't remember it infecting much beyond that though after the first few weeks. Perhaps I'm misremembering.
its because of all the new accounts that have been made there. that's likely why you're seeing so many posts about it.
a mass exodus from one twitter to another is a big deal for a lot of people.
Tech so loves to repeat the same loops, and IMO I think it's on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy.
(Number of people that have told me they think mastadon sounds like a good idea, but they don't know how to pick the right instance). I try and smack them and say "it's just like e-mail, you and your friends don't have to choose gmail, your friend can be on yahoo, and you still talk to eachother. Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.
So... we have a new platform, to replace twitter... yay!... should we take counts on how long before either enshittification begins, flooding of ads or changes to be unusable), or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc...
it's on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy
A bunch of people came over to Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, but they left because it was missing features. The big ones I saw were
Also no quote tweets. And many people are used to algorithms now. I love Mastodon but I have to say Bluesky is more polished. Mastodon can be weird about threads and replies to posts. Sometimes I see a reply before I see the post, especially in the "lists" view. Chronological timeline is great but it has its own issues too. For example people living in different time zones will have their posts buried when everyone is asleep. The algorithm, for better or worse, shuffles things around which can work for you or against you. If you browse for 5 mins here and there, algorithm helps you see the most relevant posts in that widow. Having both chronological and algorthimic feeds would be so helpful to me in Mastodon. I know there a front end that does a "catch up" feature, but it's a bit hacky
Long live Activity Pub.
Same as the old boss...
My only interest regarding Bluesky is i don't care about Bluesky. Long live Mastodon, Lemmy, Fedia, and the rest of the Fediverse!
