It’s a potentially big moment for Bluesky.

Bluesky posts are finally open to the public::Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform. The app has a new logo, too.

  • Echo DotEnglish
    47•11 months ago

    Mastodon is confusing mostly because it doesn’t help you in any way, it just sits there and goes “you have no feeds”. Well what am I supposed to do about that?

    There doesn’t seem to be a “discover” feature so you have to just magically know the usernames people already on the platform and then add them.

    • Bo7aEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      This is at the top of all of the mastodon servers I have an account on. If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore, then that is on them, not on the tech.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        29•11 months ago

        If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore

        The cries of every dev throughout programming history. Why are the users so stupid?

        But the thing is, uses are stupid. People get confused if you put “sign in” instead of "log in’. If lots of people think that Mastodon is confusing then Mastodon is confusing. The consensus cannot be wrong. You might disagree with it but it cannot be wrong.

        It requires a UX overhaul by someone who actually understands UX and researches it. I used to do UX as my job specialization and trust me everyone thinks it’s easy and it isn’t.

        • Bo7aEnglish
          0•11 months ago

          I actually don’t disagree much about the Dev/UX parts of your comment. But you should take note that I was replying to the statement:

          There doesn’t seem to be a “discover” feature

        • @voidMainVoidEnglish
          0•11 months ago

          It isn’t a consensus, though. If it were, nobody would be debating it.

          • Echo DotEnglish
            4•11 months ago

            Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree and clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

            It’s not up for debate, people find it confusing.

            • @voidMainVoidEnglish
              -2•11 months ago

              Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree

              An overwhelming majority, yes. Do you a have a survey or study that demonstrates this?

              clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

              This makes no sense. Anybody can make any comment. Just because I say a thing doesn’t mean that the majority agrees with me.

    • FoxEnglish
      3•11 months ago

      There is a discover people feature on my app at least.

      I also kind of like it not to be bombarded with a useless algorithm just so i can doomscroll more. If you curate your feed with nice people and hashtags you get lots of traffic and if that gets too much you just make lists of topics within them.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        4•11 months ago

        I’m pretty sure at least when I started using Twitter that there was a kind of what are you interested in questionnaire. You’d fill that out and it’ll give you a list of people you might be interested in you then select the ones you wanted.

        Is it’s a bit difficult to work out how you’re supposed to start

        • FoxEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          Ah well afaik there is no such thing but i started looking for hashtags of my hobbies and found some nice profiles.

          After you follow a few of them you can look into the recommended tab and will see quite a few similar people.

          Someone here also told me about LisaMelton. She will throw many cool things into your timeline if you follow her.