• JaggedRobotPubes
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    4410 days ago

    Mastodon needs to get shiny and pretty and intuitive. Bluesky is gonna suck eventually because it’s corporate, the Fediverse will only get better.

    But it needs to lose the fucking github energy.

    • Binzy_Boi
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      1810 days ago

      Honestly Misskey forks for all their flaws can absolutely take this opportunity to properly advertise themselves as viable alternatives. As someone who uses a Misskey fork, I love the UI in comparison to Mastodon, and the communities in Misskey forks are a lot less techie and a lot more laid back and goofy most of the time from my personal experience.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 days ago

        Sadly, most of English instance use Misskey-fork, which tends to be discontinued after a while…

        Not even trying to contribute back to Misskey, especially as they desperately need more English contributor.

        • Binzy_Boi
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          29 days ago

          Honestly depends, but if you want an all-around good instance on a misskey fork, try lethallava.land

    • Aviandelight
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      49 days ago

      If it’s any consolation I am seeing bridged account for Mastodon over there. I think people will get more exposure to the wider Fedverse while they’re there.

  • Carighan Maconar
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    2210 days ago

    Over a million actually by now, and they got above 15 mil total.

  • @[email protected]
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    209 days ago

    Oh cool, good job waiting until AFTER the election to do this incredibly basic and easy move, everyone. Jesus fucking christ

  • @[email protected]
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    810 days ago

    Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.

  • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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    59 days ago

    On one hand that’s a good thing.

    On the other hand you had to wait for our government to go fascist to start making the bare minimum of effort so here’s a temporary “Go Fuck Yourself” from those of us that knew enough to leave two years ago.

    • @PunchingWood
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      1410 days ago

      People been saying this for years since he took over and nothing changes.

      • @blue_berryOP
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        710 days ago

        Its kind of hard to say because I don’t think X is giving out reliable numbers about their own monthly active users, so. …

        • @PunchingWood
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          310 days ago

          Yeah but I mean I’ve often seen people claim they leave X for something else, only for them to return a couple of weeks or months later again. This seems to happen with every new similar platform that pops up. It’s just like Lemmy being a Reddit alternative, but it seems to forever struggle to take off, and it never quite feels like the amount of engagement you get on Reddit, just because everyone is staying there or returning there anyway.

          I think it’s mostly due to alternatives trying to copy the originals, instead of doing something new that could keep people interested longer to build up a bigger community.

          • @Infernal_pizza
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            19 days ago

            I think it’s just that the majority of users don’t care what the platforms they use do, it’s just a vocal minority that complain about the issues and even fewer who actually try any of the alternatives

        • @[email protected]
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          19 days ago

          Similarweb can provide estimates, in October it it is 4.575B visits for x.com vs 75.87M for bsky.app . so about 1.63% of visits, so x.com isn’t going away in time soon it seems.

      • @deafboy
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        110 days ago

        Nothing? Im as pessimistic as it gets, but it has provided traction for at least 3 competing decentralized alternatives.

        • @PunchingWood
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          29 days ago

          I do think alternatives got traction, but I don’t think any of them are anywhere near actually competing with X though. Perhaps it’s the beginning of becoming a true competitor, but it’s a long ride still.

    • sunzu2
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      -1310 days ago

      DNC and kamala lost the election… Quit blaming pathetic fails on the winner lol

  • @[email protected]
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    49 days ago

    Look I’ve bopped around bsky and do enjoy it. Wish Mastodon had picked up the eXodus but bsky isn’t the worst alternative.

    Really hoping we get past the point where day old accounts are saying “bluesky is such a BREATH of FRESH AIR”. I would think so too though if I was breathing whatever is coming out of of Twitter up until now…

  • RubberDuck
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    29 days ago

    Half of them right wing bots getting ready to do the same thing again.

  • Nexy
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    29 days ago

    Exist any web with a list of not the main blusky social instance?

  • @[email protected]
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    19 days ago

    Is Bluesky prone to enshittification? I don’t know much about the AT protocol, but it seems like it works relatively similar to ActivityPub. Is it open source?