I would argue siloing is easier on bluesky - block list manager drama can definitely have a similar effect to user admin drama. The thing mastodon does poorly is discovery. The fed and local feeds are nonsense on Masto. Imo it should be replaced with local admin/user curated topical feeds and top cross server topical feeds.

Mastodon requires far more effort to create a new feed than bluesky, and that’s the major problem.

Mastodon doesn’t silo its users, that’s what federation is for. Everything you post on the public timeline is essentially public for everyone that’s on a federated instance that hasn’t gotten blocked.

I’m just dreading the inevitable monetization. These spaces are fun in their alpha state. But it’s just a matter of time before there’s a “Let AI help you spam Shrimp Jesus to your friends” button and a “Pay $5 to override the Block function” feature.

It failed lemmys rigid purity test.

It’s genuinely just people feeling the need to “pick a side”, and it’s unhelpful. Just makes the fans look like clowns.

Bluesky’s got the same vibe as early Twitter (for now). That’s awesome. Mastodon / “the fediverse” can take some time to streamline onboarding so when Bluesky gets sold to Mussolini’s ghost Mastodon will be ready to take the reins.

I’ll be more excited about that when they start allowing larger federated instances.

I haven’t read a ton about it, I have to admit, but last I read, federated instances are limited in number of accounts.

More generally, the idea that taking crypto bro money will allow them to stay as open as Mastodon sounds unlikely to me.

seriously.

please show me a single, fully independant instance of their platform that federates.

you cant, because it doesnt exist.

Bluesky Social has pledged to transfer the protocol’s development to a standards body such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the near future.[11]

I assumed people don’t trust Meta compared to Bluesky.

It’s predictably massive

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/03/threads-now-has-275m-monthly-active-users/

Between threads and blue sky, the non-cultists are leaving in droves.

I wonder how much the two cult sites fight over the same users.

It basically exists for brands to advertise and avoids things like actual news. User counts are way overinflated. Heard multiple people say their algorithm is garbage.

It’s owned by facebook, it’s irrelevant.

The idea is that these social media sites always become monopolies. That occurs because no one can communicate with each other across platforms, which eventually leads to a majority of users migrating to a single platform over time. Once that happens, the social media group no longer has to try and the media site enshittifies slowly over time. On top of this, the insane amount of users also cripples the centralized system’s ability to self-moderate properly, leading to user-based enshittification as well.

With federated social media, that barrier doesn’t exist, and, in theory, the subsequent conglomeration of users doesn’t happen. Additionally, federated instances can be self-hosted and sport much smaller userbases which can make self-moderation much simpler.

The joke in the video is that rather than switching to federated social media like mastodon and lemmy, twitter users chose to go to yet another centralized social media site (which while having a federation protocol, is unlikely to have users utilizing that defederation). Essentially, Billy is abandoning twitter to go to another site which will potentially have the same downward trend as twitter did before.

You’re hanging out with the wrong people.

Readability > style

That takes effort and would invalidate it as a shitpost.

He paid 44bil for him and his corrupt buddies to oan the US.

Worth every penny