Tbh I am on Bluesky more than Mastodon. Bluesky just feels easier to use. Normal users don’t care about federation. They want the app to work easily for them. Mastodon requires a bit to get a good feed etc. Bluesky you can be lazy. Wish Mastodon had like a default “what’s hot” or “Discover” feed. Really helps find people to follow as well.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The last couple updates made it easier to access the trending feed (which afaik has existed since 2021) and added features like quote posts. Bluesky starter packs and custom shareable feeds are definitely its major perks.

The odds though bluesky will get bought up by right wing billionaires in the next 10 years is almost 100% unless there's a major change in media management laws so don't get too attached to bluesky since there is like a nonzero chance trump jr buys it with his crypto bribes.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ease of use is one of the failings of the federation that needs to be addressed or it will never have a larger pool of users.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 hours ago

Open source content serving algorithms? We’d need to classify the content and have a server that recommends based on the algorithm. Also, user tracking to some degree (but maybe that can be handled locally?)

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

"Trending" gets you somewhat the way there to a "what's hot." Though I wish it'd update more often.

But, in reality, that just means I get off of my phone sooner because I've seen the same stuff so that's fine.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

I don't think that ease of use is the problem. The problem is, people want an exact copy. Most people don't like changes, they just hope that the alternative is the same, just without the issues they leaving it. Same expectations for GIMP and Linux operating systems... (for the normie at least).