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Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky (aidanraymond.medium.com)

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[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If Bluesky has an algorithm, I haven't seen it. I get chronological posts from the accounts I follow with an occasional and subtle suggestion to follow other similar accounts. Many of the accounts I follow are news outlets, journalists, civic leaders, etc. Some of the accounts I followed on Twitter are finally joining Bluesky while less than a fraction of those are on Mastodon.

Bluesky does it even better IMO. Their default feed is a chronological feed of all the people you follow and you can add additional feeds that have their own algorithms (You can even create your own either with simple logic through something like skyfeed.app or code it entirely from scratch). This makes it much easier to choose what you want to see compared to Mastodon.

The feeds are the strongest feature Bluesky has.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah - it feels more organic to me. Bluesky feels like a more well thought out Twitter. Mastodon feels like something built from Google Wave scraps.

I'm not sure how much of Dorsey's DNA is left but it's hard to imagine someone who has had so much success wouldn't know what they're doing. The board could certainly screw it up, just as Twitter's did by selling, but it seems like they're growing slowly and doing things in a productive way. Slow and intentionally growth seems to be the growing trend in tech.

With that said, I'm aware of the funding concerns and I'm trying to pay attention. Where will their money come from is still a question. Will they use ads or subscriptions? I'd prefer the option for either and not both. Is it actually an issue that someone tied to blockchain is involved? I'm not sure but I'm open to a plausible argument.

[-] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Personally I would prefer a subscription instead of ads. I hate ads. I'd rather pay directly.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't be too bad if they did the model of showing you a persistent banner ad with the option to pay $35 a year to get rid of it. I'd be down with that.