Wow mastodon is a lot more active than Bluesky 😅

At least for how many posts I see!

#Mastodon #Bluesky

Abso-fuckin-lutely! Idk how they're calling this "decentralized". Then only thing that's decentralized is your profile info and follow relationships...🤦‍♂️

#BlueSky #SocialMedia #Decentralized

Matthew Exon has written

"what bothers me about Bluesky. There is implicitly a censorship regime being implemented here, and it must necessarily be centralised. There must be a single set of decisions affecting everyone in the world. Those decisions are being made by an American company bound by American laws, which in turn are decided by the American people participating in American democracy."

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https://fedi.exon.name/2024/02/11/censorship-on-bluesky/

#Bluesky vs #Fediverse
#censorship

"Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down"

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

"Mastodon and Bluesky are still standing."

#Post #Twitter #Mastodon #Bluesky #aocialmedia

Learnings: the post, including image, turned up at most of the intended services. That includes #Akkoma, #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Sharkey, #Hubzilla, #Tumblr and #BlueSky, all within minutes from posting it.

It is notable that it didn't show up, at all, on #Pixelfed.

People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of #bluesky user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

The Orange Puffer, also known as the Bottom-feeding Liar Fish. It is avoided by all marine creatures since it poisons the waters around itself.

by David #Hughes, #BlueSky

#OrangePuffer

Oh fediverse are you getting worse? Even this cat is not enjoying the experience. So sad that I have to scroll several pages on the Mastodon timeline just to get to couple of "real" posts

Bluesky
✅ [discover timeline] less links, actual posts from users and many discussions. Maybe better moderation?

Mastodon
❌ [live feed timeline] filled with so many links to news, politics before seeing actual content

#fediverse #mastodon #activitypub #bluesky #atproto #feedback #caturday #cat

An update on and description of #BlueSky distributed capabilities, including a long segment on distributed labeling and moderation, and how the way #Mastodon / #Fediverse handles it promotes contention on this platform.

I always say, there’s a lack of focus on technology serving users here, with instances being the primary focus, and that’s a shame.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/27/why-bluesky-remains-the-most-interesting-experiment-in-social-media-by-far/

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far

These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collected a ridiculous amount of data on you. There are few re…

^Techdirt

Plugins for fediverse platforms.

Where is this up to? Is anyone thinking along these lines?

I've seen @db0 espouse such (eg https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/8581651) (sorry for the tag if annoying).

I've certainly thought of it myself ... because it's a pretty obvious idea for an ecosystem aiming for richness and sustainability.

Seems a perfect fit for reusable moderation tooling too, rather than each new platforms having that trouble.

This is essentially #bluesky 's idea it seems.

@fediverse
#fediverse

📞 Introducing voice & video call for the Fediverse ✨

Sora is a futuristic Fediverse client for Mastodon, Bluesky, Misskey, Pleroma all in one. Comes with local ML to curate posts and the For You timeline.

In the next update V10, Sora allows you to have a Peer-to-Peer call using Fediverse credentials.

Demo video:

#bluesky
#fediverse
#mastodon
#misskey
#sorasns

Even if @potus joins #Bluesky later, this still demonstrates that turning on federation via ActivityPub is a bigger priority than joining Bluesky.

And if @potus never joins Bluesky, that means Bluesky users will have to use a bridge to receive his posts there.

So @potus has joined the #Fediverse but not #Bluesky.

That’s quite a political statement!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119353/joe-biden-threads-mastodon-activitypub-fediverse

@fediversenews

On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says:

“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”

How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on competing with Threads and Mastodon and why decentralization is a promising path forward.

^{Nick Statt (The Verge)}

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

'The head of Threads and Mastodon competitor Bluesky on why she thinks decentralization is the way forward in a post-Twitter internet'

A huge, but fascinating for some, read about Bluesky, and how it will handle federation, moderation, identity, and all the other problems (and benefits) thrown up in the process of building it.

#SocialMedia #Bluesky #Mastodon #Threads #Twitter

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on competing with Threads and Mastodon and why decentralization is a promising path forward.

^{Nick Statt (The Verge)}

Well at least many academics are gone. #AcademicTwitter is now scattered across #Mastodon #bluesky #LinkedIn and a bit of job/publication sharing on 🐦

#fragmentation #X

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/26/twitter-usage-in-us-fallen-by-a-fifth-since-elon-musks-takeover

Twitter usage in US ‘fallen by a fifth’ since Elon Musk’s takeover

App users for social media site, rebranded as X, down by 23% since November 2022 according to Sensor Tower

^{Alex Hern (The Guardian)}

Great interview with Jay Graber (CEO, #Bluesky) on Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless1280), where they dig into some of the major difference between Bluesky (#ATProtocol) and #Mastodon (#ActivityPub).

#fediverse #federation #socialweb #socialmedia

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000650348585

‎Decoder with Nilay Patel: Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on Apple Podcasts

‎Show Decoder with Nilay Patel, Ep Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber - Mar 25, 2024

^{Apple Podcasts}

There is to say: She is very clever. Haven’t seen something so strategically thought-out in social media like #Bluesky / #ATproto. Not certain if it will work on the road but academically clever architecture to still count somewhat as decentralized and engulf possible aftermarket AppViews.

Super interesting how this whole interview is corp-parlor in need of a translator.

Jay Graber of #Bluesky: https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview
"… we wanted this to someday be the last social identity you'll ever have to create because you can move it in between apps and services."

I know people see this as a killer feature, but it doubles as a form of lock-in. The language of "identity" confuses the issue a bit. What we're talking about isn't who you are, but rather how you're represented and recognized online. Merging identities and ensuring continuity is good for business.

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on competing with Threads and Mastodon and why decentralization is a promising path forward.

^{Nick Statt (The Verge)}