The exodus is real.
  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    192·
    5 months ago

    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…

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      191·
      5 months ago

      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

      1. a lack of “trending” list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what’s happening right now didn’t have a way to find events
      2. no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?
      3. no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn’t provide me with new posts.
      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        A couple of those items have at least been addressed to varying degrees now.

        There’s definitely a screen to show you “who to follow” now, and an Explore tab to show popular posts of the day.

        Not saying that solves all the problems, but at least they have made some strides in the last couple of years.

        • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          5 months ago

          Yeah, I assumed there would be progress. Here’s hoping the next time there’s a wave of registrations, the users stick around.

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Quite true… I suppose that’s also the problem of the networks that are focused at privacy/control nerds first, and trying to get more mainstream users second.

        The suggested follow is the types of features we are afraid of… The developers came to these places because they don’t want to be told what to do… IE literally that’s the exact problem with twitter right now, is Musk is personally shoving his right wing crap in our faces whether we want to look at it or not. But what regular people want… is to have crap shoved in their faces that they like and agree with.

        Which I suppose development of mastadon and the like just hadn’t reached the point, we go at minimum viable, and get what you specifically are looking for… with a lack of excitement for trying to use algorythms to tell people what they like.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    113·
    5 months ago

    Lol, Blusky fan boys are quite active today. I’m sure this millionnaire’s toy will be better than the previous one, good luck.

  • krimson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    5 months ago

    Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.

    I’ve never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don’t care about? No thanks.

    There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      64·
      5 months ago

      Not every social media format is for everyone, no need to be hostile about it. I just can’t bring myself to engage with TikTok and Reels and such, but other people really like them and why would that be a problem for me?

      • interurbain1er@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        5 months ago

        Well, I do believe twitter makes people less intelligent^* which lead to Americans electing Trump (twice even), which eventually impacts me somewhere down the line.

        ^* Because the focus on short sentence and the engagement algorithms favours highly polarised angry one liners that trigger primal emotion and is a successful assassination of any intelligent discourse.

        And I say that having seen the progressive brain rot of my parents after they retired and started doomscrolling on twitter and being bombarded by more and more extreme messages, until it became a constant stream that can be summarised roughly by “brown people = bad”.

        • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          12·
          5 months ago

          These parts:

          Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.

          I’ve never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don’t care about? No thanks.

          There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.

          • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            5 months ago

            Yeeeah, none of those are particularly hostile sounding to me. He just doesn’t like the platform and is stating so. Notice how he didn’t say something like “Anyone who likes BlueSky can fuck right off”. He shared his opinion on an inanimate webpage, thats all.

    • Lizardking13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      There isn’t a better place to get sports news than twitter. I’m seeing a lot of sports writers personalities start to post on Blue sky. I love it.