Bluesky posts are finally open to the public::Bluesky remains an invite-only decentralized Twitter alternative, but now, you don’t need to be logged in to be able to see posts on the platform. The app has a new logo, too.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I got sent an invite ages ago. I’ve jumped in every so often but I am always shocked by how crap it is. Mastodon is so much better.

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      IKR? I’m disappointed that most of my favorite artists went there, instead of something like Mastodon

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          Mastodon is confusing mostly because it doesn’t help you in any way, it just sits there and goes “you have no feeds”. Well what am I supposed to do about that?

          There doesn’t seem to be a “discover” feature so you have to just magically know the usernames people already on the platform and then add them.

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            This is at the top of all of the mastodon servers I have an account on. If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore, then that is on them, not on the tech.

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              If someone lacks the curiosity to click the word explore

              The cries of every dev throughout programming history. Why are the users so stupid?

              But the thing is, uses are stupid. People get confused if you put “sign in” instead of "log in’. If lots of people think that Mastodon is confusing then Mastodon is confusing. The consensus cannot be wrong. You might disagree with it but it cannot be wrong.

              It requires a UX overhaul by someone who actually understands UX and researches it. I used to do UX as my job specialization and trust me everyone thinks it’s easy and it isn’t.

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                I actually don’t disagree much about the Dev/UX parts of your comment. But you should take note that I was replying to the statement:

                There doesn’t seem to be a “discover” feature

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                  Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree and clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

                  It’s not up for debate, people find it confusing.

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                    Consensus doesn’t require everyone in the world to agree it just requires the majority to agree

                    An overwhelming majority, yes. Do you a have a survey or study that demonstrates this?

                    clearly the majority do otherwise the comment that it’s confusing would not have been made.

                    This makes no sense. Anybody can make any comment. Just because I say a thing doesn’t mean that the majority agrees with me.

        • Plopp@lemmy.world
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          Pretend? I’m a computer nerd and I put off signing up for Mastodon for months because of how complicated it is. I completely understand why normies nope the hell off.

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            What people don’t understand is that you’re the algorithm on mastodon. You’re doing the work.

            I’m on it and it’s actually my best experience on social media for a long long time. People are nice and discussions aren’t toxic like on others. But, it comes with the cost to be the algorithm.

            • Plopp@lemmy.world
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              Yeah once you’re on it it’s pretty great, although still a bit confusing with how the federation works. But learning what you should think about when choosing an instance, benefits of niche and general instances, big and small instances, what to do if you end up regretting your choice, how to find and add your friends and if they’re on an instance that federates with yours or not, learning about Mastodon privacy when it comes to posts and “DMs”, instance security etc etc etc. It’s a lot.

          • Bo7a@lemmy.ca
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            This is ridiculous. Please turn in your nerd card.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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          I found it and Lemmy frustrating to get started tbh. Besides the flagship instances early on finding a server I could actually join was a lot of research and trial and error.

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          Disappointed that you’re downvoted, because you’re right.

          And it actually made me remember my experience few months ago on that exact same Mastodon instance, mastodon.art–they blocked almost every other instance!!! Even something like kbin.social mind you! I don’t even know why they did it, I think they said something like alt-right content (CMIIW), but in my experience using kbin.social, I’ve never seen those kind of content. The worst thing I’ve seen from kbin.social is just… porn. It’s a good instance over all

          Sometimes I think defederation is what’s going to ruin fediverse. I get that it’s necessary, but if done like this, it’s a bad thing.


          I think if I’m gonna recommend Mastodon, I’m going to just recommend them the most popular instance. IMO the best thing about fediverse is that many different instance can talk to eachother, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to be “centralized”

          • natsume_shokogami@lemmy.world
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            Mastodon.art is well-known for being trigger-happy at blocking and usually even frame false accusations, their trch.lgbt block has made people lose any trust on them, but there are still people still think they are doing good while in fact they cause more harm tho

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      I don’t get the hate, I’ve been there for a year and the place is pretty cool with many writers and artists that aren’t on Mastodon. It feels like twitter on the good days. Maybe if you curate your friend list better you would get a better timeline?

    • ArghZombies@lemmy.world
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      Mastodon is great if you want a social media site that’ll have people shout at you for not putting a Content Warning on a post about you eating a ham sandwich.

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        When I do something that offends you: this is real life and you need to accept it bigot

        When you do something that offends me: PUT A WARNING ON THAT

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      I had the exact opposite reaction when I got my invite a few months after jumping ship to Mastodon. Mastodon just doesn’t have good discoverability and didn’t have a lot of the people I used to follow on Twitter. Bluesky’s feeds feature solves the discoverability problem; I’ve already found way more people I want to follow on there than on my entire time on Mastodon.

    • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works
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      Same, it seems like a bunch of people that want to get off twitter but don’t pull the plug so bluesky is thier backup plan in case it doesn’t work out.