A confession: I made an account on #bluesky a couple of weeks ago.
tl;dr it's not as good as #Mastodon.
I'm fully committed to the #fediverse and don’t like the idea of bluesky; but I made an account because I missed a bunch of #SciTwitter people who didn’t come over to Mastodon.
My (entirely subjective) thoughts:
It's a bit more like "LinkedIn". At least the people I'm following are presenting the buttoned-down professional side of themselves. Although some are just manually crossposting from X. The chat is more scientific than here.
The vibe of people wanting everyone to stop using X and post there instead is the same as here.
The ebb and flow of activity is the same as here.
2/n
Bluesky is missing lots of features. There's no DM. Threading is a mess. Character limit is low. There's a dependence on lists rather than hashtags.
The invite-only nature means that there are few spam/bot/troll accounts.
There's a lack of ECR voices. I have given the invite codes I got so far to ECRs in my lab.
I got more replies there suggesting papers for my course than here.
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Those are my thoughts, coloured by following ~80 people there; YMMV.
3/n
@steveroyle I think this is so much of the picture over there right now, the lack of features, it's so far still surprisingly early in development, given how much time has passed.
They say they are working on those features, so I guess we'll see what it's like once the development gets a little farther down the road.
Their decision to be invite only for such a long time almost makes me suspect that they were trying to establish that more professional culture, but really I don't think they planned it that far.
I just think something is going strange in the development and roll out of the platform.
@volkris completely agree! It's very odd. They launched in April. I guess that was premature but they wanted to capture as much migration from TwiX as possible.