The Great Desolation: Thoughts on Mastodon and Bluesky

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Sunspark• 3 years ago

I find myself uninterested in Bluesky, because other than the fact that it is an invite-only system which restricts network effects, Jack Dorsey is there.

Jack Dorsey mis-managed Twitter for years and has not uttered one public peep against Musk, which means that he either agrees with Musk making him a page in the same book, or the other conclusion, that he remains the same bad manager he always was, and will run Bluesky the way he ran Twitter or how X is run today.

Mastodon has its own separate issues such as the dependence on capricious and potentially volatile server operators who aren't bound by corporate standards of accountability. I have never created a Mastodon or Bluesky account. I still have a Twitter/X account and do not feel the need to delete it. I am not a heavy user of X, I do find it of value.

I was singularly unimpressed a few weeks ago when I went looking on Mastodon to view the feed of someone who writes about technology and only technology.. but there was nothing.. I was mystified.. the Mastodon server was reporting that the account was "suspended". So, unless that's the error message returned by a user shutting down their account themselves, the operator strikes again for whatever petty political reason they may have conjured up.

Neither Mastodon nor Bluesky are worth investing time in.

Pseudomanifold• 3 years ago

I agree with this sorry state of affairs; it does not seem that there is a proper successor to X at the moment.

Karrot_Kream• 3 years ago

Dorsey is barely involved with Bluesky. I think he's more interested in Nostr these days. He's not managing anything Bluesky related. I find the community on Bluesky to be a lot less strident than Mastodon (someone called this to "shitposter to scolder" ratio which leans much higher to "scolder" on Mastodon) but agree that it is a lot emptier than X and has a lot less going on with many fewer niches.

carride• 3 years ago

Enter in your invite code: bsky-social-ezh43-64bv2

The Great Desolation: Thoughts on Mastodon and Bluesky

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