Bluesky now has 30 million users.

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It is a decent format for businesses, organizations, musicians/comedians/touring acts etc. to announce events and goings on to the general public. For discourse, it's complete garbagepuke.

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Activitypub or gtfo

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True, and this is something that Bluesky actually seems to do better. Your posts are stored in a "PDS" (personal data store), so in theory they're not tied to any particular instance.

I hope that a future version of the Fediverse design / ActivityPub considers how to handle this issue. Still, I'd much rather lose my past posts than lose my social graph. Past posts can probably be archived, but it's much harder to track down people you used to be mutuals with on a different account and follow each-other.

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1/10th the US population! Fantastic!

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Time for the fediverse to reflect on this lamentable failure to capture the zeitgeist. The future could have been glorious. Instead we have infighting, defederation, owner class privilege with their delegates (moderators) as the first class citizen. And of course, hiding the structures of power has already begun in the name of harmony, so no, you can't have frictionless account migration. Don't step out of line if you don't want to lose your fediverse relationships and history...

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I love Mastodon. It's easily my favorite & most-used social media platform right now.

But I'm also a huge damn nerd.

I honestly can't say I'd recommend it to anyone that isn't also a huge damn nerd, because they just won't find stuff they want.

"You want sports? We don't have much of that, but check out the Proxmox server in this guy's basement!"

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Why would Bluesky be?

It has a responsibly to its owners to maximise profit.

So they will block & force-promote just like any Twitter or Facebook.

And what is self-moderation? The block function? Or like choosing your interests (like subscribing to tags/channels/instances)?

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Something similar is going to happen with lemmy if reddit keeps caving in to Elon

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@RxBrad @mostlikelyaperson yeah, feel the same..
Well when I first start using facebook it was the same, the normies follow after if the platform is worth it

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6 more months before it monetizes...

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Man does not learn

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As a former mastodon believer, Bluesky is so much better. I'm sorry but the kind of content I wanted on mastodon was never there. Bluesky feels good. Things change, for sure. For now though? This is the best we have for a replacement for Twitter.

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Na, we are a reduct... it's a miracle we are on indexed web*

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I've come to realize that bluesky already had all lot of what I'm happy to not see on masto. Good that there is a place for it to exist without me.

That content is also probably what the majority of people like about it.

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I love Mastodon as well... I also have a Proxmox server in my basement.

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I find Lemmy to be a better reddit alternative than Mastodon is a twitter alternative.

The lack of an infinitely scrollable algorithmic feed in Mastodon is definitely better societally, but let's be real, the algorithmic feed is just way more fun to scroll in blue sky.

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I tried to figure out Mastodon a few months ago. I'm with you.

Someone asked me to follow them on Mastodon. I couldn't find them in the app. He sent me the direct link and it opened up a browser on my phone, refusing to recognize the app.

I finally added them by remembering which server I was in, log into that, visiting their link again, adding them from my logged in server, and then it finally appeared in the app.

And if I'm dealing with thet level of monkeying around, how many others are? How the hell are we supposed to contribute and add content and find social circles when we're fighting with the UI?

Lemmy seems to have figured out how to not make a sucky experience with multiple servers.

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Bluesky has moderation lists that anyone can make and you can subscribe to them to choose what content you don’t want to see. It also gives you fine-grained control over the “default” moderation, allowing you to individually choose if you want to block nudity, threats, misinformation, spam, intolerance, etc.

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I think I might use both

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Is this 30 million accounts created? Active user numbers would be a lot more meaningful.

As an illustration, if you have a platform that’s gaining 100,000 users each month and losing 100,000 other users each month, it’s basically going nowhere. But it will eventually reach this “30 million users” milestone too if all it means is account creations.

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Bluesky now has 30 million users.