As much as I’d love to see mastodon grow, I feel like a lot of people here like to ignore the number one most important feature of a social network: who’s on it.
Literally the term network effects
To me, that’s relevant for messaging apps, not social networks.
But then again I follow hastags first, then people I find through those hashtags.
Fuck me, I wouldn’t join BS even if you paid me. I’ve stepped on the centralised social network rake one too many times.
I guess I’ll lose out on the viral influencer garbage I don’t care about and brands doing cringe shit to push their products.
I’d love to use Mastodon more than I have BUT I DONT FUCKING USE LINUX AND I DONT WANT TO FUCKING HEAR ABOUT IT ALL GODDAMN DAY
You should just use Linux.
What do you think about Linux Mint?
Mint is a very good first distro.
Definitely go for it.
Not having an algorithm means you need to curate your content.
If you drink from the fire hose you’re only going to get bean juice.
Lol I’m a linux user, but I rarely see content about it on Mastodon. I try to center over conversations and so and try to keep Tech content here in Lemmy.
You literally create your feed and select the people you want to connect to, it’s easier to control the things you see ;)
Bluesky is for people that want Twitter to go back to the “progressive” highly moderated/censored hugbox that it was before Musk bought it. They don’t want decentralisation or any of the supposed privacy that brings (which isnt actual privacy anyway), they just want old Twitter where everyone agrees with each other cause they ban everyone that doesn’t. Bluesky is that because it’s a literal Twitter clone from the guy who made Twitter.
Let me check your comments real quick. Yeeeeaaaahhhh, that’s what I thought. “FreedomAdvocate”, it was so obvious.
Ew, ew, ew, fucking ew
For real; the second I saw “hugbox”, I was like, “Hmm….”
Let me check yours real quick…….oh wow, what a surprise - everyone you disagree with is a fascist.
I tried making an account on bluesky. I was using orbot at the time. It let me make an account and then instant acocunt suspension. Similar to other platforms.
I appreciate the platform preemptively stopping me from wasting my time. I should have known better.
That was incredibly thoughtful of them, not gonna lie
what topics are being banned?
Kurdish independence is the first that comes to mind.
Topics aren’t banned, but certain sides opinions on topics are heavily moderated/censored.
Bsky user here - I just want Twitter without Nazi bullshit.
I just want Twitter without opinions I don’t agree with
Like nazi bullshit.
I bet you think Musk did a “roman” salute.
K
Are implying that X, formerly known as Twitter doesn’t have a Nazi problem right now?
In other words, are you fascist enough to ignore all the nazis literally posting swastikas and shitheads like fucktard musk literally giving the nazi salute? People openly calling black people the N word? Rampant transphobia and homophpbia?
Are you going to post your little .jpg again that you have in your gallery to try and cover up that you’re a little muskboi?
NAZIS AND NAZI SYMPATHISERS - GET THE FUCK OFF LEMMY
You’re like one of the people who complains that all they see on X is porn, not knowing that what you’re saying is that you regularly searched for porn in the first place to the point where “the algorithm” learns that’s what they want to see so keeps feeding it to them.
The rest of us have never seen any porn, or Nazi shit, on X.
I do not look at porn, nazi bullshit, or any of the other crap assorted sites try to force on me. The “algorithm” just sends you what it thinks you want to see, or what the programmer does want you to see. It’s isn’t some ambivalent god that just blesses you with what you’re already looking at.
It literally does feed you more of what you have been looking at lol.
Then why isn’t it full of gardening and woodworking posts, cause that’s literally all I seek out.
Holy fucking mental gymnastics batman.
Mastodon user here since 2017. Sure, Bluesky requires less learning for those who come from other centralized platforms and nobody has to deal with fediblock drama over there. Some may also point to Bluesky’s users being less tech-savvy and less prone to dogpiling on tech companies for their poor decisions, which I don’t believe is completely true. Something I do love about Mastodon though is I don’t need any mods or admins to make decisions for me. I can calmly stay in an instance I trust and filter everything, every single small bit, to fit my own criteria. I get others think this is bad moderation and wish to depend on third parties to answer their reports, clean the servers and “do justice” but I prefer to make those decisions myself and let others make theirs.
Yup, any client will allow you to block accounts or instances but noooo the other instance’s admins must do it because someone somewhere somehow got micro-offended at something!
Mastodon ANYTHING < bsky, sadly.
Everyone who has anything to say should post on both, then ditch Bluesky once they have enough followers on Mastodon.
Also, if you don’t mind absolute chaos because of intentionally no moderation -> Nostr
Masturbon sounds wrong that’s why they use bluesky.
