What made everybody move from a corporate social media platform to another corporate social media platform instead of the fediverse?

After all, the Fediverse and Activitypub is much more mature than Bluesky and the copycat AT protocol or Threads and … whatever they use.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Who are these people who actually FIND users go follow on either service???

    I have Bluesky. I have Mastodon. I log into each every few months, realize nothing has changed, and there is nobody to follow.

    Then I don’t use either, until I wonder a few months later “heeeey, I wonder if people are on these services yet…”

    Still no.

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      2 months ago

      Mastodon revolves around following topics and hashtags, not individuals. I learned that early on, and am having a much better experience.

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          Not really. In terms of engaging with posts, oh my god, absolutely it’s worse. Twitter and its clones suck when it comes to engaging with things people post (but Mastodon at least makes it a bit better by increasing the character limit). But there’s just something different about following a hashtag versus following a Lemmy community. Like for example, when it comes to getting highly detailed, up-to-the-minute news about things, Mastodon beats Lemmy every time. Additionally, I can see people’s random, one-off takes that wouldn’t really warrant a post on Lemmy.

          I would argue too that it’s not even true that you should just be focused on following hashtags, but rather that you should be trying to do both.

          To me, Lemmy is the type of place I could kill two hours; for Mastodon, it’s maybe 15 minutes, but that doesn’t make it inferior, just a different use-case. It’s pretty apples-to-oranges.

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        2 months ago

        Well then it will never be useful for me. I want to follow PEOPLE. I want people to follow me for the random shit I say.

        Then they retweet the random shit, and now a whole NEW group of people can wonder what’s wrong with me.

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      2 months ago

      Use lists on bsky to find people.

      And just gained a million people, biggest spike yet. So should be a bit more active.

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      Depends a bit on the type of person and content you want to follow. But if you like retro computer Shenanigans etc. I know action retro is on Lemmy and Mastodon and I follow them on mastodon. But yes General content for the normies probably not so much.