Comment by tyre
2 days ago
Or people don't think it's a problem!
Maybe there are a ton of people who joined Bluesky because twitter devolved into a room-temperature-IQ right-wing hell hole, not because they cared about federation or whatever.
Everything has trade-offs. Again and again people choose centralized services because they are a better product.
It's exactly that. I have an account on Mastodon that I haven't opened in months. I use Bluesky a couple of times a day. On Mastodon I couldn't find interesting accounts to follow for weeks. On Bluesky I was up and running after an hour thanks to starter packs. Ease of use trumps (what a word!) philosophy for me. And probably most other people too.
BTW I already lost 10 years of posting on Twitter. Did not care for a second. Do people REALLY care about their postings on micro blog sites? It's not like a box of photographs that I would pass to my children on my deathbed...
Just FYI, starter packs were implemented on Mastodon, or rather, around Mastodon quite a while ago, so maybe give it another shot.
That being said, the nature of Mastodon does still make it more difficult to find interesting accounts.
Thanks, that's awesome! I will give it a try because I love idea of federated networks a lot. Just couldn't find my way in the jungle.
>Or people don't think it's a problem!
Often that's a problem on its own (e.g. climate change)
This was the reason I went to Bluesky. I understand the political advantages of decentralization, but centralized services work better.
Remember that SMTP, the most decentralized platform that worked, now is centralized in a handful of companies.