It's very on-brand for Mastodon to turn even more obnoxious & sanctimonious as we watch Bluesky sucking in tech Twitter.
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It's very on-brand for Mastodon to turn even more obnoxious & sanctimonious as we watch Bluesky sucking in tech Twitter.
Ppl KNOW that Mastodon exists—& they hate it. The reasons why they hate it have been known for years but nothing has been done about it.
Being condescending to users for wanting to be hand-held or have effective protections against the very reply guys that are going around scolding the impure is just proving them right.
No amount of dirt-digging on Bluesky will change that.
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@hynek Man, at this point I would be jazzed if they hated it. I think they mostly just don't think of it at all
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@glyph I’m seeing a lot of „lol remember mastodon?“ and „I tried mastodon and it never clicked so I went back to twitter but I can’t do it anymore“
Their hate might be a memory from 2022 but that doesn’t make it less real or the reasons ppl bounced off back then less relevant. We can’t even tell them that „Mastodon is good now“ because zero of the major problems from 2022 have been solved.
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Yeah, sad but true. In https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/ I wrote
"It's a stark contrast from November 2022, when millions of people dismayed by Apartheid Clyde's acquisition of Twitter flocked to Mastodon looking for a Twitter alternative.
It's hard for so many people here to accept that it can be a very rational decision to go to a venture-funded platform even knowing that they'll almost certainly wind up exploiting their users at some point. Of course it can also be a rational decision not to do that, either because you can easily get a good experience somewhere else or because you decide it's worth accepting something that doesn't give you as much as what you want that (for many people) requires a lot more effort. But, different people make different tradeoffs, and all the sneering or disparaging peple who for whatever reasons prefer Bluesky ... isn't helpful.
And a good thing too!
For one thing, most of the people who came to Mastodon in late 2022 didn't have good experiences ... so didn't stay in the Fediverse.6 Flash forward to 2024, and Mastodon still hasn't addressed the reasons why.
Bluesky, by contrast, has put a lot of work into onboarding and usability – as well as giving people better tools protect themselves and others, and find and build communities"
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Yeah, sad but true. In https://privacy.thenexus.today/bluesky-atmosphere-fediverse/ I wrote
"It's a stark contrast from November 2022, when millions of people dismayed by Apartheid Clyde's acquisition of Twitter flocked to Mastodon looking for a Twitter alternative.
It's hard for so many people here to accept that it can be a very rational decision to go to a venture-funded platform even knowing that they'll almost certainly wind up exploiting their users at some point. Of course it can also be a rational decision not to do that, either because you can easily get a good experience somewhere else or because you decide it's worth accepting something that doesn't give you as much as what you want that (for many people) requires a lot more effort. But, different people make different tradeoffs, and all the sneering or disparaging peple who for whatever reasons prefer Bluesky ... isn't helpful.
And a good thing too!
For one thing, most of the people who came to Mastodon in late 2022 didn't have good experiences ... so didn't stay in the Fediverse.6 Flash forward to 2024, and Mastodon still hasn't addressed the reasons why.
Bluesky, by contrast, has put a lot of work into onboarding and usability – as well as giving people better tools protect themselves and others, and find and build communities"
@[email protected] @[email protected]
