I've been reading that BlueSky has reached critical mass and is snowballing well at the moment. I suspect it has drawn people away from the fedi and back into the loving embrace of venture capitalists.
this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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Once in a blue moon I remember that I have a Mastodon account. And I use it mostly because of the cross-compatibility with other Fediverse applications, something that Bluesky lacks.
I think so, too. Even people who understand what federation is and why it's good are still affected by network effect; "it's federated" might weight a lot for them, but it is not a perfect shield.
Even though there is some network effect just in terms of there being much less content on the threadiverse than Reddit, I do feel like this is something we're somewhat shielded from. For the most part, we're not here to follow specific people: my friends aren't on Lemmy/Mbin, or maybe they are, I don't actually know or care. I have a Mastodon, but a lot of the people I'd theoretically be interested to follow are still on Twitter, or BlueSky, or Threads or something. It's not enough of a pull factor to make me join any of those, but it's probably why I barely use Mastodon.
Instead of "shielded" I think that a more accurate word would be that we have a "buffer". The network effect still applies to us, as much as it does in the microblogging side of the Fediverse; it's just indirectly (more people → more content → more people), in a way that content produced here in the past still might attract users in the future.
At least bluesky has bridges