Bluesky now has 30 million users.

[spezi@feddit.org]

Yeah, why would I use BlueSky when I could just use my favorite platform named Threads?

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
Just kidding
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[interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml]

10s of millions if twitter refugees and how many came here?

It could very well be another decade before these people are sold out again.

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

Ah yes, "free our feeds" where millionaire VCs are asking for donations

[markalalvarez@lemmy.world]

I don’t think it will go down the same path as Twitter, since Bluesky is open source and available on Github other devs will have the possibility to improve it or create a better version of it but with the more users joining it might necessary to monetize it to better cover the costs. I would love to see everyone switching to the Fediverse but it’s not very intuitive for the average end user with the instances and the fact that you need to target a user and an instance to follow it

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

And that's the kicker. Bluesky can never be meaningfully decentralized.

[bizza@lemmy.zip]

The masses will either eventually migrate to ActivityPub, or have their entire digital lives consumed by oligarchs. It's just a fight between finally deciding that maybe ease-of-use doesn't mean "good," and losing every ounce of your identity and ability to express your thoughts and feelings.

[arc@lemm.ee]

Maybe it will, but for the time being it hasn't. The experience is so vastly better than Twitter, that it's a no brainer to jump over.

[thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world]

No clue. Never found those platforms to be useful, just toxic.

[gluca23@lemmy.world]

They have an addiction to that kind of socials.

[jhex@lemmy.world]

Same here... even when Twitter was not even in the sights of fElon I found it to be super toxic. I signed up because "it was the best way to get the news" and left in about 4 days

[uniformly9@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Because it isn't just Twitter.
Nobody can buy the network, the same way nobody can buy email.

• Anyone can host a server.
• Anyone can make an app.
• Anyone can make an algorithm.
• Anyone can make a moderation service.
  Users can freely pick a server, app, algorithm, and moderation service.

[deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Decentralized FOSS socials are great technical achievements but I feel like the actual product that users will interact with are worse copy cats of already established social platforms. Mastodon is a Twitter clone, Lemmy is a reddit clone, peertube is a youtube clone. I love these FOSS/decen. platforms but the frontend that users actually interact with are just copies of already popular platforms, just with another backend. What innovative FOSS/decen. social platforms exist? Not talking about the backend but the user experience.

[dnzm@feddit.nl]

Yeah, no, not anybody can host a server. Sure, you can host a PDS, but the AppView still wasn't open source last time I looked, and hosting a relay requires tens of terabytes of storage, not to mention the bandwidth to keep up.

Meanwhile, people host actual activitypub instances on repurposed routers and their car entertainment system...

[erincrush@lemm.ee]

While you can't follow hashtags you can follow "topics" like movies, tech, etc. They should do a better job of explaining how to use that feature though.

As for pixelfed, I'd love to use it. But the only use I have for Instagram is following local bands. Although there is a new site that's popped up recently that's like Instagram with a forum but only for bands and musicians to communicate with their local scenes. Very cool, old Internet kind of feel to it.