I spent the past week using Croissant to post identical toots to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all at once.
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I spent the past week using Croissant to post identical toots to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all at once.
Summary:
1. Mastodon: works as is—friends laugh at my dumb stuff, a few randos painfully explain my joke back to me
2. Bluesky: you get 2 likes or 200, no in-between.
3. Threads: my posts got 5 views or 5,000 views, no in-between. Also: context collapse as bad as 2018 Twitter with dozens of randos screaming at me how I'm wrong and I'm an asshole. Humorless.
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Matthew Haugheyreplied to Matthew Haughey last edited by
I feel like Threads is by far the most cursed social network because it's based on the Facebook/Instagram backend. Threads seems good at taking something 40 of your friends got a chuckle out of, and beaming that to someone on the other side of the country that doesn't know who you are or what your deal is and is super fucking pissed off about it.
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Matthew Haugheyreplied to Matthew Haughey last edited by
I used to be bummed that Mastodon was only a slice of my friends that used to follow me on Twitter, too many old friends were missing out.
They're mostly on Bluesky, but there's so much politics there it feels like 2012 Twitter.
A few misguided friends only use Threads, and I still don't understand why. They're trying to build the giant public square at Threads and if Twitter has taught us anything it's that smaller communities work better than one giant feed pile for the entire world.
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Matthew Haugheyreplied to Matthew Haughey last edited by
Despite the different crowds and their behavior on each network, from the writing side of things here's how they rank:
Mastodon: 500 characters (but you can post thousands if you really wanted to), it's all hidden behind read-more links in most clients.
️ UNLIMITED EDITING OF YOUR POSTS!Bluesky: 300 characters with zero editing, ever.
Threads: 500 characters but zero editing, ever.
Mastodon still wins by a mile for writers
