• blue_berry@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    Even if it doesnt have much impact on activitypub-fedi, I think this is good news for the fediverse in general. X is loosing more and more relevancy and microblogging is more and more happening on federating services.

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      7 months ago

      I’m having trouble figuring out how bluesky is part of the fediverse at all.

      From my understanding it doesn’t federate with anything.

      It’s like saying a hamburger is really just a cheeseburger…you just need to add cheese.

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        It has an adapter that integrated with the current protocol.

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          Oh great. That bridge even federates with the bitcoin bros’ network (nostr)

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        7 months ago

        In theory, bluesky can federate with other apps but it is currently the only one using their protocol, bluesky servers can federate with each other and when a new project using atprotocol appears it will probably be able to federate with that

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    Mastodon.social just went over the 2 million user mark. The switch to fediverse and fediverse adjacent is going pretty quick.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve been on Mastodon for over a year and the content simply isn’t there. Several of the people that I follow on Twitter have tried moving or duplicating to Mastodon. They’ve had a fraction of the visibility and engagement from commenters that they would get on Twitter. Invariably after a few months they have essentially given up on it as a primary medium. For me the discoverability is essentially non-existent, which I don’t think is helped by the idea of it being based around instance-local communities, which have no meaning when you’re looking at something like Twitter.

      • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        mastodon had their chance during the first exodus but they refused to listen to what twitter users wanted and shot down things like lists, quote tweets, and privacy controls.

        mastodon is very gatekeeper-y

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        7 months ago

        Maybe, just maybe, if your followers aren’t willing to give up something vile because it’s giving them a dopamine hit, they’re not adding as much value to your life as you think.

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        7 months ago

        Guess it’s not for you then. I’m having a blast. A lot of my friends are now in it and the last year or so have been great.

        And more and more people seem to be moving.

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        7 months ago

        My experience has been better. User engagement is much higher per follower and the discussions don’t devolve. They’re much more useful and/or interesting. KPIs don’t measure everything.

      • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        7 months ago

        Maybe they should stop caring about visibility and engagement and concentrate on participating in, building and y’know enjoying a community?

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    7 months ago

    Sorry if this sounds like a conspiracy theory, but how do we know that BlueSky isn’t padding their stats with internal bots? I could see this being a viable strategy to attract users and overcome the social network bootstrapping problem.

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      They could be, but 2M new Brazilian users after Twitter’s block there actually seems quite low and definitely credible.