This will surely please John Mastodon.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Most of the reporters I follow for sports/news have joined bluesky but not mastodon. At this point I think Bluesky is going to win the bulk of twitter exodus in the end and Mastodon will remain extremely niche.
That is good, I believe. We are going to have different communities in different places with no reliance on a single platform.
How much does that matter when they can federate with each other?
To my knowledge Bluesky does not use ActivityPub and is therefore not compatible with Mastodon for federation
They use a different underlying protocol for communication between instances, called AT Protocol
Edit: Different, but not proprietary
There are bridges that speak both ActivityPub and AT
It matters because a lot of mastodon instances are blocking bluesky access because bluesky is already playing unfair wrt API access and the data they pull, afaik.
So many people on alt-instances will just never see bluesky and thus end up joining BS as well. (Oh, is that not what bluesky’s short name is?)
LOL. That acronym. They brought this on themselves.
People will always be drawn to where the famous people are going and doing.
And that's why government men are not going to stop using X
Twitter is now effectively part of the government. They won't have a choice. But hopefully most others will flee and I wish more people were willing to take action on it or it will go the other direction.
I suggested on c/ProgressivePolitics about an email campaign to SAG and the WGA to get them to leave en masse as an act of union solidarity, but there didn't seem to be much interest. Me doing it by myself won't accomplish much.
Maybe Mastodon will end up like ham radio vs. Sirius XM. But at least that means we won't have Joe Rogan or whoever they have over there.
Now if the porn creators leave Xitter for BS/Mastodon, that'll be the end for them...
A ton of Mastodon instances don't seem to allow NSFW content.
Oh?