Look, people choosing bluesky, likely knowing full well that it will eventually go bad and they’ll need to relocate again… we can scold people like that for choosing a precarious VC backed service, or maybe we can recognize that in the social media space that some people are … migrants.
Maybe we should ask ourselves what Bluesky offers now, in the near term, that’s compelling to people who might not enjoy the luxury of a long term, and ask what their choices say about us in the process.
@mhoye I have a very blunt answer to what
BlueSky users *interact*
Here is an example, this are from an artist who is posting in both BlueSky and Mastodon at the same time, he is not a big famous artist but just look at the number of likes and boosts.
In the same time he got 49 likes and 9 boosts on BlueSky
And 1 like and 1 boost on Mastodon
You can yell that numbers don't matter all you want, they do
And as long we are a void being yell, we will keep loosing users
@hashraydamon @mhoye It would be interesting to know how many followers each of those accounts have. I assume some of the difference is due to the difference in the number active users (I think Bluesky has considerably more at this point), but I suspect another key factor is the lack algorithmic suggestions on Mastodon. Having a basic chronological feed of people you follow and stuff they boost makes it easy to miss things from people you follow and even harder to discover stuff from anyone else. I have definitely seen a number of people I follow say that posting on Mastodon feels like yelling into the void, and many of them left for that reason.
