That’s cause the Twitter format is not for people who want the open source experience.
Twitter format is about self promotion, it’s not a place to discuss ideas anonymously.
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Personally, I'm glad the normies are going somewhere else. They can continue to clout chase and post AI crap on BlueSky and leave it off the fediverse. I just deleted my BlueSky account after seeing the 20th repost of "post a selfie showing your new followers what they're dealing with!" It was so cringe and narcissistic I immediately went back to the nerds on Mastodon. Significantly higher IQ userbase.
I've been waiting for my 2^68th Linux circlejerk post, I love Linux
Honestly it's fine. Keep fedi niche, it's why it continues to be comfy.
Yeah, let the project serve a few thousand then die off entirely well before 2030. That's what this should be.
Let's barely be a blip on the radar and make no difference at all to how the future of Internet fora goes.
Let's do to the fediverse idea what some families do to a discounted grill, use it a few times a year then throw it in a dumpster when it gets rusty.
I rather it grow organically than go viral.
Most people here would have have Lemmy not grow much at all.
There is a price for going mainstream, and I agree that I don't think I want to pay it. R*ddit was also once niche...
Yay! I'm part of the problem!
What does Loona from Helluva Boss have to do with this?
Breaking: Musk offering to buy BlueSky.
/s, but barely.
Happy twitter is dying. For awhile I though modern society will take anything from fascists, but maybe there're still some lines normies won't cross.
And yea bluesky is just infant twitter, but it's like vaping: may be not great for you but hella better than smoking.
Twitter is taking punches but far from dying. 586M MonthlyActiveUsers
I couldn't tell if that was using recent data. Several statistics cited are from 2023
Gonna put this out there: the fediverse is vastly depressing and not very fun. Lacks creative-types, too.
I see why people would choose the alternative.
I’ll miss you when you’re gone… hope you find a comfortable place that tailors to your specific wants.
And full of propaganda, especially from Lemmy.ml
Not surprising to me that its faltering, but very disappointing
Like Twitter and Meta aren't
Hey. Cmon man, every instance has its agendas and bad apples. Some spread pro-US and anti-Russia/China rhetoric, others are flipped.
Yes, a minority of the mods are fucked in some of their values and beliefs but that's true of any instance, and most of the time it's not an issue.
We all harbour our strange 1% ideas that's separate us from the norm, but that's the beauty of the lemmyverse that you can find a server where that's better represented.
Too much? Go to an instance where it's not and chill there for a bit.
The general user base is off putting and creates a shit experience. The fediverse will unfortunately never grow beyond a niche platform. It’s a great idea, it’s too bad so many of the people are such shit. Even in this thread another user calmly pointed out what non technical users care about and sure enough, someone with their head so far up their ass they probably haven’t been able to walk outside in weeks is blasting off while smelling their own farts because it’s so inconceivable that some portions of the population may not be as technical or similarly vested in things as they are.
Indeed, quite unfortunate
Bingo.
Only place I've had folks follow me around to harass me, too. It's disturbing.
Press block?
I had some loser follow all my comments and downvote them for a couple weeks but that's all they could do in their impotent babyrage.
Something that could be fixed if creative types and fun people would just flood the place already. The place is being held hostage by social misers and digital HOA Karens.
They will not come here because there's an absolute fuckton of hostility.
My favorite woman-centric community went dark due to lack of moderation. Mods left because it was so damn hostile.
The t×nkie problem is also pretty bad.
Federated spaces will forever be niche spaces, because of all of this. Say "good" all you want, but it'd be great to have mass adoption.
They could outnumber and shout down the existing user base in a day. The number of active users in the fediverse is quite small. A tiny number of toxic people have killed the open social web for the next decade.
Unfortunately the loud obnoxious ones ruin it for everyone else.
The t×nkie problem is also pretty bad.
Aren't you okay on sopuli.xyz? I now use lemmy.cafe as my main, they block ml, hexbear and grad
I am! But I left 4-5 other instances before finally settling. Blahaj especially actually welcomed HB at one point because "trans solidarity", which opened the door to mass harassment. ......again. I was so absolutely disappointed because I was like "hey..don't" and was basically told off.
"Oh you can block them if you don't like it! It's up to the individual!" I'm sure that's fine if you're tough & completely mentally stable, but these people genuinely triggered my PTSD, which had not been a thing that had happened to me in years. It left me and my faith in this whole thing very very shaken.
That aside, I think sopuli only has ML unblocked because it has such large tech communities.
I really really really loved Beehaw, too, but after their talk about moving away from Lemmy, I scrambled to find another home.
An average user is not going to want to continually move around to keep themselves sane & safe.
My Lemmy experience is kinda shit, but Mastodon is alright
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Bluesky: install an app and make an account.
Mastodon: first pick a server. What does that mean? You figure it out. Ok, now select a client and install it. Doesn't matter which one, but it actually does. Then use that client app to log onto the server you made an account on. Now you just need to figure out who to follow and you're ready to participate!
This is either outdated information, or purposeful misinformation.
The how-to-search-for-people-to-follow thing caused me trouble with Mastodon. I could handle getting a client and an account, but actually finding people not on the same instance as me was a challenge. Discoverability was pretty broken.
Bluesky doesn't seem to have that problem.
Lemmy I've stuck with because it handles that better.
The latest version of Mastodon does suggest accounts to follow. But you're absolutely right - Bluesky being fully centralized can do a lot of things easier than it is for the Mastodon network. I have high hopes that @[email protected] will help alleviate this a lot though with the Fediverse equivalent for "starter packs":
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Fediverse is the over-engineered great solutions that most people don't understand
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