Meanwhile, Mastodon added about 100k users in the last day and should hit 13 million total today.
I really don’t see the appeal or point of Bluesky.
The most common argument I see is the lack of recommended content. Mastodon only shows you what you want to see and if you don’t actively follow accounts and hashtags, your feed can seem empty. That’s a massive difference to the birdsite. Quitting algorithms cold turkey is too much for some. They probably hope Bluesky is a middle ground.
That’s weird to me, because it’s easy to go to the search page and see popular hashtags, posts, and “for you” recommendations. I haven’t used Twitter, so I don’t understand what the algorithm offers that those things don’t.
I feel like algorithms ruined social media for me, when I open Instagram I don’t see any content from my friends or family so I just close it
Any Beehawians (Beehawans? Cowbees?) looking for a Twitter replacement might consider Counter.Social - it has a similar vibe to Beehaw and Tildes. It is not federated but is using a lot of Mastodon code from what I understand. The community sets it apart - and the owner’s insistence on no ads, no algo, security, privacy, etc.
It’s been around a few years and the infrastructure was upgraded with the last bit Twitter exodus, so CoSo remains stable where Bluesky and some others have been screwy. You can find me there with the same username - say hi if you pop in! It’s a super friendly community :)
So what are the differences exactly between the fediverse with activitypub protocol and the AT protocol that Bluesky is using (https://atproto.com/)?
