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Mastodon vs BlueSky (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by Vcio to c/[email protected]

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How is you experience using them ? (I know BlueSky is invite only, but perhaps someone got lucky) I registered in Mastodon recently and i'm getting the same feeling(and problems) when started using lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that I’ve had the chance to try both (thanks to [email protected]), I can say that Mastadon seems more familiar to me as a former Twitter user. Despite being a Twitter spinoff, Bluesky seems to be trying to reinvent the flow of things. I’m not quite sure how hashtags (or their equivalent) work there.

I’m not sure which is better yet, as I’m too new to Bluesky to really form an opinion, but those are my initial impressions.

I’d like to see the National Weather Service and local government agencies start posting to one or both though, as weather and traffic are the only reasons I look at Twitter anymore, and I’d prefer not to support it at all.

[–] Jackthelad 7 points 1 year ago

Bluesky doesn't have hashtags, but the algorithmic feeds are supposed to pick up on keywords that it deems relevant to the feed you're subscribed to.

The problem with that is you will often get posts which are nothing to do with the topic of the feed, but they use a word which the algorithm thinks is relevant. I was subscribed to a general Gaming feed, and I would often see posts about Donald Trump, just because someone used the word "game" or "playing" in the post.

Another silly one was in a PlayStation feed, where I kept seeing posts from sex workers selling their content on a site called Clips4Sale. Because the URL has "ps4" written in the middle of it, it was added to the feed. 🤷