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Why switch to BlueSky if you have Mastodon...
I'm on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:
All these things (and more I'm sure I'm forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.
I am still trying with Mastodon, but it's really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn't bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.
Thanks for the list! As someone who has never used any Twitter-like site before (I guess microblog is the right term...?), and recently made a profile on Bluesky only to support it (I have used it briefly ~3 times since joining): what are the pros of Mastodon that Bluesky doesn't have?
As far as I can tell, the advantages of Mastodon over Bluesky are:
Haha, thanks! I know it's quite important for a good bunch of people here (on a federated site), but I guess I'll stick with Bluesky then. Thanks for the insights! : )
It's important because, along with the ability to migrate accounts, it prevents/deters enshittification. In betting Bluesky will hit that wall in the next few years (I'm guessing they'll never properly implement federation).
I know; as much as I love the concept, I can already see .world soaking up most of the users, which might not be the best thing for federation - but TBF when I came over from Reddit, my main goal was to find something decent and similar, and federation was secondary at best for me; so I'll see if it gets any worse, but for the moment, the first list definitely overweighs the second "list" for me.
Bluesky's main feed is totally algorithm free, it's just the people you follow's posts in chronological order, same as mastodon.
Starter kits are optional, but they allow you to get started in hours rather than months. For me, they made the difference between a vibrant and interesting feed well tailored towards my interests, and a very sparse feed that I didn't use on Mastodon. For me they were the difference between a useful social network and a non-useful one.
It does have keyword blocking.
Not sure what nuclear block means but I can't think of any way a blocked person could be seen again. It even has above nuclear blocking where you block their entire server.
It has custom feeds but the implementation with lists is very fiddly and I wish it would be improved.
There is a trending posts section but I think you want a personalised discover feed? Which will never happen of course.
Thanks for the update. Yes the recommended feed is personalized. It's optional. The main feed has no algorithm, just who you follow.
Keyword blocking is a bit more sophisticated on Bluesky I think as they have a crowdsourced tagging system which allows you to opt in an out also of tagged words regardless of whether they appear in the body of the post.
The tagging sounds great. One of the problems with masto is showing the hashtags in the body making posts that use them look awful, and of course being entirely set by the author
I've seen a few larger creators say the reply management is bad at scale, too. The thing I mostly like is that here I am, reading Lemmy from Mastodon.
Yeah I'd prefer Mastodon to implement all these features and win, but I understand why it's not winning ATM.
Same. Plus I came back here because Bluesky got too noisy so I'm kind of happy if it stays small!
Lemmy is still my favorite, I was never a huge fan of the Twitter model, but I enjoy taking part in the destruction of X.
over time I'll probably end up moving over to Lemmy tbh. I think I'd prefer more of a forum vibe. I was never a Redditor so I didn't "get" it until I started following Lemmy feeds.
In a word, audience. I'd prefer it if everyone went with Mastodon, but the audience on BlueSky is orders of magnitude bigger. I cross post to both, but only because I don't trust BlueSky not to do exactly what Twitter and Meta have done eventually.
They might do the Twitter. Jack Dorsey has already left the board saying exactly that.
Cause the name is hard to remember.. I was trying to yesterday and the closest I could get is megatron and megalodon
I tried masterdon, mostertant (I don’t know what that one is) and eventually needed to look up the name from an E-Mail…
The name should have been MinBB (Mastadon is not Blue Bird).
Guess why? /s For real, people, some of you live in a bubble...
I think there's a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can't quite understand it myself.
Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn't help that "no algorithm" means "show first reply at the top" so quick replies can dominate comments.
The bit I don't understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can't quite believe that but I can't see why blue sky would be less annoying.
It's not that it's less annoying, it's that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect..
There's plenty of people on masto saying they have accounts on both but prefer bsky due to difficulty managing replies.
As I say I don't really understand it but it's a real thing big accounts experience.
Why switch to Mastodon when there is Misskey?
Why use Misskey when there is Hubzilla?
These who waited until the X take over to move away are simply following trends.