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I disagree, only because I’m on Mastodon and a ton of people are missing. A large chunk of the Apple nerd ecosystem I followed on Twitter moved, and I like tha

by MBCook 3y ago

I disagree, only because I’m on Mastodon and a ton of people are missing. A large chunk of the Apple nerd ecosystem I followed on Twitter moved, and I like that I can still follow them. But everyone else I followed either never moved or quickly gave up and seems to have taken up residence on Bluesky. So without an invite code, and the possibility Twitter will disappear real quick, I’m left with no way to follow them and I’m just forced to miss out. There’s no way to get a code if you don’t know someone. There is no indication when signups will open. I have no idea what my place in line is. I’m just screwed.

flopsamjetsam 3y ago
> But everyone else I followed either never moved or quickly gave up and seems to have taken up residence on Bluesky. What were the types of people who moved over to Bluesky?
- MBCook 3y ago
  Some of them are just less tech-y. Mastodon can give a very poor reception. There are a lot of people who seem to consider it there and are mad other people are showing up and not following their self-imposed rules on all servers. Instantly telling people they’re doing things ‘wrong’. The people (not many, I think, but enough) can be rude about it or downright hostile. They’re like the RMS GNU/Linux brigaders of social networks. And they drive people away. I’ve seen a lot of people say they don’t want to be on Twitter due to Elon actively encouraging horrible things, and Mastodon treated them (or a friend) poorly. Even if they’ve tried both, they say Bluesky feels more like the fun old twitter, whereas Mastodon can be very serious (I’ve seen this problem too). I sort of get the feeling Mastodon lost it’s big moment due to the behavior of many users. I haven’t been on Bluesky. Someone gave me a code (thanks a ton!) but since signups are locked at the moment I haven’t been able to jump on.

by MBCook 3y ago

flopsamjetsam 3y ago

> But everyone else I followed either never moved or quickly gave up and seems to have taken up residence on Bluesky. What were the types of people who moved over to Bluesky?

MBCook 3y ago
Some of them are just less tech-y. Mastodon can give a very poor reception. There are a lot of people who seem to consider it there and are mad other people are showing up and not following their self-imposed rules on all servers. Instantly telling people they’re doing things ‘wrong’. The people (not many, I think, but enough) can be rude about it or downright hostile. They’re like the RMS GNU/Linux brigaders of social networks. And they drive people away. I’ve seen a lot of people say they don’t want to be on Twitter due to Elon actively encouraging horrible things, and Mastodon treated them (or a friend) poorly. Even if they’ve tried both, they say Bluesky feels more like the fun old twitter, whereas Mastodon can be very serious (I’ve seen this problem too). I sort of get the feeling Mastodon lost it’s big moment due to the behavior of many users. I haven’t been on Bluesky. Someone gave me a code (thanks a ton!) but since signups are locked at the moment I haven’t been able to jump on.