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Did you leave mastodon for bluesky? Why or why not? (logowik.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

BlueSky already annoys me because someone took my name for an inactive account. It's why I chose Mastodon over BlueSky initially.

With that said, Mastodon has several glaring issues:

Federation, in general, solves a problem that very few people have. People don't want to pick an app or an instance out of dozens. They want the prescribed experience, and then they want to tailor to their preferences.
It's dead. There is interaction, but if you set up an account, follow some people, reply to some stuff, you'll probably get maybe 1-2 followers? The interaction seems stuck at a few people.
There are a lot of bots, which in itself can be useful, but when several are there to maintain archives of Twitter accounts onto Mastodon it just adds to the deadness.
It doesn't offer anything new or interesting over BlueSky or Twitter. It's just a clone.
Humour hasn't really made it's way onto Mastodon. It's all very serious stuff, and many people like social media to look at dumb shit.

With that said, BlueSky is growing, but it's still a minnow.