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What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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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.

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[–] macattack 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My personal opinion is that it was:

Easier signup
A wider variety of opinions... Fediverse imo is known for tankies and progressives. I'm a progressive so I'm OK w/ the latter, but it can be an echo chamber at times.
Built-in audiences (Threads especially but also Jack founding a spinoff helps)
Similar to Linux, one of the benefits to open-source is plenty of forks and standards. This leads to a more fractured landscape at times and so it's rockier than the alternatives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I know it's not the main point, but I wouldn't call Linux fractured. Linux has multiple choices, but they all work fine unless you're going into an experimental realm or uncommon distros that beginners shouldn't be getting near anyways.