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It's not necessarily so easy, there aren't substitutes for a lot of the communities on twitter. Though I did just get into Bluesky the other day and am already spending more time in there than on twitter.
Why not mastodon?
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Because, especially for artists and creators seeking to publicize their work, it's not widely adopted enough. They need their work shared to as many eyeballs as possible in hopes to sell. Mastodon is fine for personal use, but it doesn't fit the business needs of these creators, I can't blame any creator for staying on Twitter until their inevitable end, because the growing pains of alternatives will be difficult to weather.
It's not widely adopted enough because artists and creators aren't using it enough. Chicken or egg?
Yet, Mastodon had a big discoverability problem. No follow recommendations, no "highlights" tab, no search practically as follows don't think to hashtag.
There might be many great artists and creators on Mastodon, but good luck finding them!
Why? Just use Mastadon. I've been using it for months it's great. BlueSky is also selling data to LLMs.
Agreed, I am desperate to use something else, but the only place I can find a community is on Twitter. It’s not a techie community either, so the reason to move to something else has to be compelling and low barriers to entry. So far nothing else hits the mark.
Look, Twitter is going to die. When it dies you will have nothing in Twitter. This is the absolute truth that we know will happen. This "community" feeling is not going to be the same, not in Bluesky, not in Mastodon or Lemmy. When Twitter first started, people wanted the forums like feeling, we never got that feeling ever again. People who liked chatrooms, never got the chatroom feeling. Just as i will never feel those again, you too will not feel that Twitter feeling when Twitter dies.