Bluesky now has 30 million users.

[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.

[naught101@lemmy.world]

Yep. Already true to a large extent. But it doesn't take a majority of the world to make the fediverse work. We just need enough for it to become broadly attractive to a critical mass of people. It's big enough to self-sustain now, so I think it's just a matter of time until it hits that point.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

*an incomplete subset of Bluesky is opensource