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submitted 1 year ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Is it just the momentum and word of mouth, or are there improved features as well?

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[-] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

I like Mastodon and the Fediverse, I really do, but I just can't deny that all the good posters that made Twitter enjoyable moved to Bluesky. My Mastodon feed is nothing but journalists, activists, developers, but very little fun shitposting.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

See, that's exactly why I like Mastodon and want nothing to do with Bluesky. Sounds like we're both happy this way.

[-] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That's fine, I just want either of them to actually kill twitter for good though and it just doesn't look like it's gonna be Mastodon. With Threads potentially joining the Fediverse, I guess who knows.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As for Threads, any threads sites or account gets instablocked on identification for me. I will not peacefully submit to Zuck the Fuck's embrace/extend/extinguish strategy. I basically want all corporate surveillance antisocial media to die. Ruthlessly murdered, ideally, in a gruesome living vivisection.

[-] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Sure, I just meant if Threads and maybe Tumblr are serious about joining the Fediverse, maybe the whole AT Protocol that Bluesky is trying to build will fall into obscurity.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

News Flash!

Twitter will never stop being a thing. Myspace is still a thing, after all. Twitter will just stop being a relevant thing. Like Myspace.

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Oh lord that would sell me on mastodon instantly if I weren't already there.

[-] timconspicuous@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Perhaps I should clarify: by "good posters", I don't mean Wendy's epically dunking on McDonald's and I don't mean "night water hits different" lowest common denominator posters, just ordinary people like you and me shooting the shit. I think it's sad Mastodon seems to have the reputation that people can't crack a joke there.

[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

OK this tells me that bluesky is definitely not for me. I am happy with Mastodon. So long as the people I follow (from technology, science, research, literature, owners of cats, dogs, etc etc) remain on Mastodon, I will remain happy.

[-] lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

If you attempt to shitpost on Mastodon things don't usually go very well. The vibe had to match twitter circa 2013 or else it would never have felt safe enough for the first colonizing species of memes like alf hog to develop like the first plants in a lava field

this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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