Hey, I wanted to ask someone who has probably more knowledge than me about it - what’s the difference about these two services? I know Mastodon has ActivityPub, so it works with Lemmy, and BlueSky has it’s own kind of federation, but does it even has anything to federate to?

I’m asking not which one is better, I’m searching logical argument for one or other. I’m obviously more leaning toward Mastodon since I’m here, but I wanted to give my friend, who is thinking about joining, some real arguments.

    • @EvilBit
      19•2 months ago

      Bluesky is very left leaning which I’m not sure I like. An example, the other day there was a thread about using blocklists and a user said they are silly because you have to trust the creator of that list. Another user said talk like that will get you blocked, many people agreed with the second user. That culture worries me. BTW I agree with the first user.

      How is this an example of “left leaning”?

    • DrunemetonEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      You can block hashtags or words, and you can set a time period to do so. From an hour to forever.

    • Optional
      1•2 months ago

      I’ve been on Mastodon for a couple of years and, for me, it’s so boring. Been on Bluesky for about a week. I currently have more followers and am following more than I ever did on Mastodon.

      To me, that’s an argument for Mastodon.

      • @[email protected]
        4•2 months ago

        Could just write your tweets in notepad you know. If you don’t want anyone to see what you do.

        • @ripcord
          2•2 months ago

          I’m definitely one of the people who is happy to contribute via comments, but have zero interest in having “Followers”. It’s going to be very rare that I have a brand new post worth ssubmitting and dont get any kind of domamine hit from building a “following” like a ton of people seem to.

          That’s why community- and post-oriented systems like Lemmy/mbin and classic forums have always made way way more sense to me.

          But for some reason i’m liking Bluesky. Can’t figure out why.

        • Optional
          1•2 months ago

          How did you know that??

          Nah, I just think the whole ‘follower’ thing is weird.