Since Bluesky has twice as many users as mastodon, I’m thinking this opinion isn’t truly unpopular.
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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No no. Not twice as many.
Mastodon has, from a google search a few days ago about 975k users.
Bluesky, goohle search 30 seconds later had 20 million users, and a news story that they gained 700k users in the past 24 hours (at the time). So I'm unclear if the 700k is included in the 20 mil, or if it should be more like 20.7mil.
Either way, it's far from 1.5mil total.
They just passed 21 millions
Not sure if it's that unpopular nowadays. Starter packs, moderation lists, global search go a long way compared to Mastodon
Seriously, Mastodon has languished under Gagron and it's probably not gonna grow much more. They spent years hemming and hawing about adding quote posts, they ignored the problems with onboarding for years before just defaulting to .social, they're still clueless what to do about moderation and harassment despite piles of user feedback, bug reports, pull requests. This is one case where an open source BDFL just entirely tanks a project.
It is a corporation that is trying to squeeze money from you! They will take money in exchange for:
- Your personal information
- Prioritizing posts
- De-prioritizing posts
- Shadow banning users
- Forcing you to use an app so they can get even more personal info
And on and on and on... There is no reason to think they're better...
I said in features. In moral hell Mastodon is ∞ times better than BlueSky.
- Prioritizing posts
- De-prioritizing posts
- Shadow banning users
- Forcing you to use an app so they can get even more personal info
But they didn't did those thing yet. Don't know about future. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Answers here:
https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-great-bluesky-migration-i-answer-some-of-your-questions/
Specifically starting with this section:
Bluesky is fun, but won't it inevitably be ruined by horrible billionaires like the other social media websites I've used over the last 15 years?
That's why we need a true decentralisation on Bluesky.
Is it hard to host a server for friends and family?
Everyone loves the shiny new thing when it's still burning through VC money and hasn't been sold off for value extraction yet.
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