old twitter founder jack created another social platform just like how twitter was except it has a protocol very similar to activitypub (but not it so not compatible)
Mastodon is the one everyone’s heard of, but it’s not the most intuitive if you’re coming from Twitter. Lemmy has the advantage of many old reddit apps switching to its API, making the user experience fairly seamless between them and bringing a bunch of dedicated users. Alternate Twitter apps, if there were any, didn’t have that kind of footing, and the official Mastodon app is a bit overwhelming. If there was a similar app for Mastodon that could make content discovery more akin to Twitter, it might have a chance to take off.
I’ve never used Twitter and I have Mastodon, but only use it a tiny bit.
What discovery feature does (did?) Twitter have that Mastodon doesn’t? I ask because I haven’t had any issues finding things on Mastodon.
I don’t use Mastodon much because I find Mastodon/Twitter a less intuitive method to communicate. I prefer the Lemmy/Reddit method. (On that same note, I also don’t understand Discord as a replacement for any of these. It’s chat, which is great for chat, but terrible as a Mastodon/Lemmy alternative.)
The assumption is Jack will make bluesky just as bad as Twitter was before elon. But then jack and liberals didn’t see anything wrong with that twitter. So yeah, marginally better.
ok i see and yeah i agree to an extent. i’m assuming you don’t like the current state of twitter either? your initial comment was pretty ambiguous.
unfortunately, i don’t think you can have something similar and as popular as twitter without it turning into a mess. so yeah, bluesky will likely just be twitter again but that’s what people seem to want. attempts to do something different just don’t have any mainstream appeal.
Yes I hate current twitter as well, but I think I wrote off the website back in like 2018.
I dunno, its just… People who use it are stakeholders in it, too. They’re invested in having a platform that can pay the bills. Nobody seems to like youtube, but nobody is really… Quitting it, either.
It’s got a lot of the same problems that twitter had before the Elon takeover. If it just ended there it would at least be a quick replacement but they had to throw in a FOMO invite system and to make matters even worse the CEO of bluesky has been sucking Elon’s toes on all his shitty decisions leading anyone with any level of analysis to see that it’s not going to be long before bluesky ends up just as bad as twitter is today.
the fuck is bluesky?
old twitter founder jack created another social platform just like how twitter was except it has a protocol very similar to activitypub (but not it so not compatible)
EDIT: https://atproto.com/guides/overview
So… why the fuck don’t people just use Mastodon or Firefish then?
Mastodon is the one everyone’s heard of, but it’s not the most intuitive if you’re coming from Twitter. Lemmy has the advantage of many old reddit apps switching to its API, making the user experience fairly seamless between them and bringing a bunch of dedicated users. Alternate Twitter apps, if there were any, didn’t have that kind of footing, and the official Mastodon app is a bit overwhelming. If there was a similar app for Mastodon that could make content discovery more akin to Twitter, it might have a chance to take off.
I’ve never used Twitter and I have Mastodon, but only use it a tiny bit.
What discovery feature does (did?) Twitter have that Mastodon doesn’t? I ask because I haven’t had any issues finding things on Mastodon.
I don’t use Mastodon much because I find Mastodon/Twitter a less intuitive method to communicate. I prefer the Lemmy/Reddit method. (On that same note, I also don’t understand Discord as a replacement for any of these. It’s chat, which is great for chat, but terrible as a Mastodon/Lemmy alternative.)
Also, Mastodon would be better with nested comment, the way it is now is a mess.
THAT’S WHAT I’M THINKING
Some sort of centralized alternative to Mastadon. Kinda silly tbh.
It’s for libs who want things to be marginally better temporarily rather than significantly better forever.
what do you mean by this
The assumption is Jack will make bluesky just as bad as Twitter was before elon. But then jack and liberals didn’t see anything wrong with that twitter. So yeah, marginally better.
ok i see and yeah i agree to an extent. i’m assuming you don’t like the current state of twitter either? your initial comment was pretty ambiguous. unfortunately, i don’t think you can have something similar and as popular as twitter without it turning into a mess. so yeah, bluesky will likely just be twitter again but that’s what people seem to want. attempts to do something different just don’t have any mainstream appeal.
Yes I hate current twitter as well, but I think I wrote off the website back in like 2018.
I dunno, its just… People who use it are stakeholders in it, too. They’re invested in having a platform that can pay the bills. Nobody seems to like youtube, but nobody is really… Quitting it, either.
It’s got a lot of the same problems that twitter had before the Elon takeover. If it just ended there it would at least be a quick replacement but they had to throw in a FOMO invite system and to make matters even worse the CEO of bluesky has been sucking Elon’s toes on all his shitty decisions leading anyone with any level of analysis to see that it’s not going to be long before bluesky ends up just as bad as twitter is today.