Bluesky gains half a million new users in one day after X changes how blocking works https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-half-a-million-new-users-after-x-twitter-block-change
Bluesky gains half a million new users in one day after X changes how blocking works
Perhaps people want 'block' to, y'know, block people.Matt Binder (Mashable)
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casey is remote
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to casey is remote • • •Boud
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •@realcaseyrollins
Building freedom takes time and effort. Keep working on things like Fediverse governance [1] and sooner or later there'll be new mass arrivals in the free world. And it does look like there's a bump up of about half a million in the last week [2] - though there was spam that might bias those estimates.
[1] https://fediverse-governance.github.io
[2] https://fediverse.observer/dailystats
Fediverse Observer checks all servers in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home using a map or list.
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diego
in reply to casey is remote • • •Kristoffer Lawson
in reply to diego • • •@diego @realcaseyrollins the other day I was trying to explain why someone’s hashtagged posts didn’t show up in another person’s hashtag search. And, well, yeah… (tricky to solve)
And then you get to the issue of a profile showing no posts when opening it, despite the person having posted (which would actually be fixable with a bit of effort).
Kristoffer Lawson
in reply to Kristoffer Lawson • • •DanieruOtakuBoy
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to DanieruOtakuBoy • • •Beldarak
in reply to DanieruOtakuBoy • • •@danieruotakuboy
I tried bluesky and it was awful, lacking the most basic features.
I'll never understand why mastodon isn't more used. It works great and has a very welcoming community, maybe it's for the best though.
David Weir :v_enby:
in reply to DanieruOtakuBoy • • •Chris Hayes
in reply to David Weir :v_enby: • • •Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to Chris Hayes • • •It's on the roadmap.
Mastodon has every single feature you could wish from a microblogging platform yet everyone moan about the quote post feature.
#Mastodon
David Weir :v_enby:
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •My point here is not that it is necessarily a missing feature, but rather that if we want to look at the reasons twitter quitters have for choosing a particular platform, we need understand how particular groups use particular features, and how they perceive their safety when posting on public social media platforms where anyone can reply.
@chris_hayes @danieruotakuboy
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David Zaslavsky
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •@chris_hayes @davidjamesweir @danieruotakuboy Quote posts is a feature I could (and do) want and Mastodon doesn't have it (yet), so no, Mastodon doesn't have every single feature a person could wish from a microblogging platform. And after quote posts are implemented, there will be more things that other people want that Mastodon doesn't have.
I don't think it's necessarily about features, though. Certainly not for everybody, and my guess is only a small portion of ex-Twitterers chose to avoid Mastodon because of a perceived lack of features. It could be as simple as visibility, e.g. there was that news about Bluesky having a high-ranking mobile app. Or it could be confusion about which server to join. Or so on.
#Mastodon
Nick
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in reply to Kristen • • •iamdtms
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •I tired Bluesky, it's not a step forward from Twitter for me. Mastodon is.
https://iamdtms.medium.com/mastodon-vs-bluesky-2024q4-d62d2ef4688a
Mastodon vs. Bluesky 2024Q4 - Dohány Tamás - Medium
Dohány Tamás (Medium)Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to iamdtms • • •@iamdtms For some reason I can't get myself to use Bluesky. Its multiple feeds confuse the hell out of me. I don't know if it's af fish or a bird.
Mastodon makes sense to me.
#SocialMedia #Bluesky
iamdtms
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Ľuboš Moščovič :donor: :rebelverified:
in reply to iamdtms • • •Mainly, even if the BlueSky was better than Mastodon right now, the things would change once the investors will wnat their money back. Every commercially backed "for free" social network is doomed to enshitification over time.
Roni Laukkarinen
in reply to Ľuboš Moščovič :donor: :rebelverified: • • •@herrman_sk @iamdtms It's PBC so it is not competely bad.
A public benefit corporation (PBC) is a for profit corporation that is intended to produce one or more public benefits.
iamdtms
in reply to Ľuboš Moščovič :donor: :rebelverified: • • •Roni Laukkarinen
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