A rant:Someone just boosted into my timeline a post from a thread by some social media mucky muck (on mastodon.social natch), proclaiming how Mastodon will never be the new Twitter and how he spends all his time on Bluesky because of all the usual well documented issues with Masto and all the cool features that Bluesky is shipping... et cetera.Just wait until Bluesky starts shipping advertisements, my dude. But more to the point, why can't there be both? Everything doesn't have to be for everybody, and Mastodon can be its own nerdy, weird thing.Cool that Bluesky is figuring out moderation/quoting features. They seem useful. I'm genuinely glad for the users, and that people are thinking these things through. But Bluesky, since the app is one and the same with the protocol atm, can adapt its federation protocol as necessary, whereas Mastodon can't force its will onto ActivityPub if they don't want to break Federation with a bunch of other software. It's slow and frustrating, I guess, but it's not like their aren't people on here enjoying whatever it is they do on here.Anyway, I'm not trying to sell anyone on anything. This doesn't have to be for everyone. It's just these kinds of posts are my least favorite genre of Mastodon navel gazing: people who try to force their expectations on the platform and castigate people for not Mastodoning the way they think they should and/or gripe about what they think are essential missing features. And because it doesn't meet their expectations they declare it a failed platform. For sure, it's a bummer when people whose posts I like disappear. But new people show up, old mutuals check in now and again, and the rest of us all just keep on keeping on. Devs can poke and prod at ActivityPub and it can contribute to its maturation, its possibilities.Have fun with Bluesky, genuinely. But, frankly, fuck marketshare and exponential growth. I, for one, hope there remains an ecosystem of social media that can resist the need to please Silicon Valley VCs idea of what success is.#Bluesky #Mastodon #NavelGazing