Who owns Bluesky? What’s the role of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey? What’s Bluesky’s business model? And what prevents another Elon Musk from buying and destroying it 10 years down the line?
@micahflee answers some of your Bluesky questions. https://theintercept.com/2023/06/01/bluesky-owner-twitter-elon-musk/
#MicahLee dragged "#Mastodon" as "notoriously confusing" to use and #BlueSky as having "great" vibes.
Would y'all like the @ s of some not-white, cis het #Fediverse members for whom #BlueSky's "vibes" ain't so great?
The platform has a moderation problem. A severe one.
As for "Mastrodon" being tough to join: how about #CalKey or #PixelFed or one of the other platforms in the #Fediverse?
Somehow we expect more from The Intercept, but no.
The funny thing is, your reply comes across to me as mostly confirming the article.
Mastodon people get defensive! says the article, as you get defensive.
Mastodon is confusing! says the article as you list off the alternatives that help make Mastodon confusing.
And so on.
I just appreciate how you don’t seem to particularly care about supporting the case that you object to, or even working to improve things.
You’re harming your own case, but nevermind that, huh? I’ll just piss right off.
piss of redux,
@volkris @DemocracySpot @theintercept @micahflee I mean, yeah, an article that keeps harping on Mastodon being “harder-to-use”, “notoriously confusing for the uninitiated” and “the confusion that Mastodon is famous for”. It also thinks a gGmbH is non-profit and a PBLLC is for-profit, when those two serve exactly the same purpose.
Its only real point is better account migration. But as it itself points out, migration to _what_? There are no other servers, so the entire article is moot.
@volkris @DemocracySpot @theintercept @micahflee
It also brings up “the Mastodon project is hostile to algorithms”, which 1) I don’t know that that’s the case and 2) if it is, it’s irrelevant. A project can fork Mastodon or make a different ActivityPub client (like Misskey) that has an algorithmic timeline. Or a _client_ can generate an algorithmic timeline. There’s nothing about Bluesky that makes this easier.
@chucker @volkris @DemocracySpot @theintercept there's a LOT about Bluesky that makes this easier. Users get the default "following" algorithm (the same as Mastodon's, reverse chronological posts from people you follow), and then you can choose to subscribe to other algorithms, both from Bluesky or third parties. For example, I use a feed called "Catch Up" which just shows the most popular posts from the last 24 hours. Want to make a custom algorithm that anyone can use? Here's how https://github.com/bluesky-social/feed-generator
I think that a lot of people who say Mastodon is not confusing are sort of projecting their own personal brain processes and not realizing, or not appreciating, how other people operate differently.
Different people are different, and the amount of understanding needed to understand instances will be more or less brain work for different people, not to mention the choice paralysis for choosing BOTH Fediverse interfaces multiplied by instances will be different for different people.
In short, anytime a person is dismissing the confusingness of Mastodon, they need to keep in mind that so much of the population have brains that work in patterns much different than theirs.
@volkris @DemocracySpot @theintercept @micahflee
Mastodon is unquestionably more “confusing” than a centralized approach, much like having to pick between different choices in an election is, or having to pick a store chain you to prefer to shop from, and I didn’t say otherwise. It is a UX challenge.
>anytime a person is dismissing the confusingness of Mastodon
I wasn’t. I pointed out 1) Micah brought it up over and over, and 2) it has yet to be seen whether Bluesky will handle it better.
Right now people are criticizing BlueSky for having effectively only a single instance.
For better or worse, that alone makes it less confusing.
(Personally I would go with worse because I think it’s a good trade-off to have more instances, but for the moment that alone justifies the claims that it doesn’t have that confusing element)
@volkris @theintercept @micahflee
piss off.