Bluesky brings the fun, weird vibes of old Twitter back to life
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  • stoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    273·
    1 month ago

    Don’t kid yourself–it will eventually become more like Twitter once the entire planet onboards. Decentralization will help a lot, though.

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      102·
      1 month ago

      I’d be happy enough if it just ended up replicating pre-Musk twitter - that was a cool website! And in practice as you say with the federated decentralized aspect and a core userbase of anti-fascists it will likely be even better.

    • sibachian@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      bluesky isn’t decentralized and never will be. the only reason they would ever consider federating with other servers would be for the purpose of cannibalizing them. they are a for-profit company and as all for-profit companies have done in the past (XMPP) and are doing today (email), the goal is always to kill competition through forced lockouts.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    134·
    1 month ago

    I mean old, un-Musked Twitter was what people wanted. Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter (which personally I couldn’t get into even in its heyday).

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter

      And that’s honestly a good thing. We don’t need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.

      Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it’s probably lost its way.

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      114·
      1 month ago

      The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it’s hard for anything to go viral and you can’t easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn’t have a problem with the old version.