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[–] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 113 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 55 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is a subtly good thing for the fediverse, assuming they are able to draw people away from Reddit. Divide and conquer.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Once ppl are comfortable using one alternative they'll feel comfortable using others

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or they'll just stick with what they got.

[–] stephen01king@piefed.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's usually the first migration that people are most resistant to. The 2nd or 3rd time is a lot easier.

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[–] joyjoy@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Like they'd ever use ActivityPub instead of their own ATProtocol.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not what I mean. It's breaking up the centralization and Reddit's hegemony in general that's good for smaller platforms like ours

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[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

Lemmy think it over and I'll get back to ya.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

PieFed and Mbin are also perfectly good.

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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Running out of ideas and the flow of users are slowing down.

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The place quickly turned into a silo of hand grenade throwing echo chambers. Some hilarious takes by people who have completely lost touch of reality.

If I said this in Bluesky they would just assume I was talking about Truth Social.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 33 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Sounds a bit like Lemmy lol

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 18 points 3 weeks ago

This style of posting lends itself to having "hot takes" get upvoted and actual discussions have middling success.

At least with us, you can chose the tech and put it up yourself. Like right now you are using slrpnk.net and im using piefed.social on a lemmy.world server. Without any issues. We (the collective WE) made this happen without huge billionaires having a strangle hold on the way we interact. Its not perfect, but its better than a LOT of the alternatives.

[–] chortle_tortle@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think to whatever degree innate tribalism of humans play roles in internet communities, federated servers is still the best way to reflect the good and hinder the bad. Migratory identity would take activity pub a long way in making federation better, but even without it activity pub shows that bluesky to be a monolithic platform with a federated coat of paint.

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[–] binux@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One time on Bluesky I made unfortunate contact with a psycho that genuinely believed bigotry could be a good thing “if applied correctly.” It’s basically liberal MAGA over there

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I keep seeing the echo chamber thing but at this point most social media sites are. Bluesky is just a left leaning one, which is the only thing that really sets it apart.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I keep seeing the echo chamber thing but at this point most social media sites are. Bluesky is just a left leaning one, which is the only thing that really sets it apart.

I mean honestly I think left leaning is basically being neutral and accepting scientific consensus. To me the non federated part of bluesky is kind of what makes me consider it a time bomb. Even if it were good now, we already know one owner switch, hostile takeover, threats from the government etc... can flip a network around faster than you can blink. It's why I literally see federation as the only way forward for the internet, and find it so ridiculous that everyone bolted to bluesky to escape twitters crash instead of mastadon. It's the same key problem. it can go down in moments.

[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe im missing something. Mastadon doesn't work at all like Twitter or bluesky. In haven't used it in a couple years though, blsky has a discover feed where you can sew accounts you aren't following. When i was using it, Mastodon only shows posts from people you follow.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, pretty much. Honestly I'm not even sure I would join a social media platform where I would have to read the thoughts of uneducated, unfiltered morons who probably should be sterile and cut off from the internet.

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[–] _fryerDan@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

yep, im there just to scream into the void without having to actually engage with maga

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 32 points 3 weeks ago

If you think corporate owned social media will ever be anything but a constant downhill ride, I got a bridge to sell ya.

[–] M33@piefed.world 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Let’s cut the bullshit and start a $3.99 subscription already

We all know this is how it will end

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, it could just get sold to a massive advertising tracking and data pushing company. Or at this rate the FCC will find some BS statute to accuse it for and find a way to give it to Musk or Elison.

I'm ok with Lemmy, thanks

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Anyone who expects BlueSky to go down a different road than Twitter probably has stock.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Bring sold to a narcissistic Nazi for 44 billion?

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I do like the idea of more competition to reddit here but we'll see how well it does. I know bluesky is considered like fauxfediverse but it's better than nothing as far as mainstream apps go.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The only reason it is currently better is that it is comparatively smaller than the mainstream apps. The more successful and mainstream it becomes the more it with enshittify.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bluesky died pretty fast. They gave up. I have an account there but at this point is more out of spite

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I get why there was a niche for Bluesky after X was purchased by a Nazi, but the Twitter UI/community/content was always trash to begin with. It wasn’t worth replacing. It’s the TikTok of text-based social media.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

He should had vine. Instead Harambe died and we got tiktok.

[–] user_name@programming.dev 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Really? I find it a lot more active than lemmy

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I should clarify. It’s not dead as in empty, it’s dead as in the feel for the whole thing changed to corporate BS.

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was VC funded and built by the same guy who built Twitter, what you expect?

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[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 8 points 2 weeks ago

Lol fuck bluesky, they intentionally suppressed epstein as a trending topic when it was picking up steam. Like, they disabled the tag and cleared whole feeds.

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago

Can't enshittify something that's shit from the start.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

With the dumb characters limit?

[–] morto@piefed.social 14 points 3 weeks ago

Character limit is a clever strategy to make users s

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would like to be able to navigate up a comment chain. Sometimes, people will reply to an old comment I've made and I can't figure out which one it was. Is this some quirk of twitter that got brought over to bsky?

[–] silentjohn@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say it's by design. It's not meant to facilitate discussion. It's meant for short zingers to be shared.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

woof. Why can’t platforms just be themselves.

Also, Twitter tried this under Elon and recently changed their minds after, I assume, it didn’t work out like they had hoped?

[–] alexquiniou@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

Laught in Lemmy.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Since Lemmy and bluesky are both open and federated networks, it should be possible to bridge these.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not sure about that implementation, but this certainly sounds clever. Especially if they can roll it out before Facebook manages to do the same thing.

Now whether this will be used for scraping AI data, or whether it will be a privacy disaster in the long run, remains to be seen.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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