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That's so much smaller than I expected. Mastodon stats claim 1.1B posts [1]. Both are growing fast, but I'm surprised by that gap. [1] https://the-federation.i
by 8organicbits 4y ago
That's so much smaller than I expected. Mastodon stats claim 1.1B posts [1]. Both are growing fast, but I'm surprised by that gap.
[1] https://the-federation.info/ https://the-federation.info/
- input_sh 4y agoWhy are you surprised by that? Mastodon is older, a lot more ironed out (in its own quirky ways), actually open to the public, and bot-friendly. Of course it's orders of magnitude more popular at this point in time. That said, even though I'm rooting for Mastodon, I would not be shocked if Bluesky catches up very quickly. In any case, any of the two is an improvement over a locked down and thoroughly broken Twitter.
- glenstein 4y agoRight, Blue sky is invite only, and has just started out. And like you, I strongly prefer Mastodon, but if Blue sky helps organize us into a post Twitter world so much the better.
- capableweb 4y agoBluesky just existed for a short while so far, it's to be expected. What would be more interesting would be to compare Mastodon with bluesky when Mastodon was as old as bluesky is now. Is this something someone can figure out?
- parasti 4y agoTwitter was not going up in flames when Mastodon came out, so that wouldn't make for a fair comparison.
- capableweb 4y agoThe two initial waves of migrations from Twitter to Mastodon absolutely happened when "shit it the fan" in the Twitter world, just like now with Bluesky. And if that's not a fair comparison, and neither is comparing them straight up by data right now, how could be fairly compare them then?