@TodayInTwitter I agree with @gruber opinion that Mastodon, and by extension the rest of the fediverse, is reverting back to being a niche tech nerds platform and not vectoring towards more mainstream acceptance. The Twitter slack seems to be being absorbed by Threads and BlueSky. That doesn't mean that the fediverse never will be but that initial surge of mainstream people has definitely dropped off. Many of the ones I follow here are posting infrequently but are posting on BlueSky (one I can check) and from what I hear threads. #mastodon#fediverse#BlueSky#threads
If people who want to be on BlueSky end up on BlueSky, and people who want to be in the fediverse end up in the fediverse, we'll all be happier.
Tech details aside, I understand that the culture of BlueSky is "Twitter without Elon." I came to the fediverse looking for the same thing, but I've stayed because our culture isn't remotely like Twitter before Elon, either.
BlueSkys official #ATProtocol account just highlighted a community developer project to bridge it with #ActivityPub
#BlueSky early on decided not to go with the open #W3C standard in favor of implementating features like account migration. Planning to start federating next year, they've made some decisions I'm skeptical about.
Increasingly I'm finding #LinkedIn to be the best of the "normy" social media platforms. #Mastodon is where I have conversations, LinkedIn is where I follow industry trends and try not to become nauseated with the hustle culture nonsense.
I don't see how #Threads or #BlueSky really fit in to my mental conceptions of what I want out of social media. But LinkedIn, eh, it serves a purpose.
If any #lawfedi or @law folks are similarly straddling both worlds, look me up.
One of the weirdest experience in this social media ecology was to receive an email today from the research hub of a faculty announcing they've joined #Bluesky and inviting all of us to follow them there. They specified you need a code link. But they have none.
A university hub. In an exclusive social media club. I have no words (which is very, very rare).
Seit einer Weile teilt @heiseonline auch Links zu Artikeln auf #Bluesky (aber nicht automatisch wie hier) und da wollte ich jetzt mal vergleichen: Über die aktuell so gehypte #TwitterAlternative sind in drei Monaten so viele auf heise.de gekommen, wie über #Mastodon an einem normalen Wochentag. #Twitter liegt weiter davor....
Ich hatte zwar einen #Twitter Account, habe diesen aber nie benutzt. Ich bin eigentlich erst auf das Format so richtig gestoßen, als der Crash mit #elonmusk los ging. Dann kam Jan Bömermann um die Ecke und Zack war ich auf Mastodon. Da gefällt es mir gut aber zwischenzeitlich gefällt es mir auf Lemmy besser.
Einen #bluesky Account habe ich nun auch. Diesen habe ich genau einmal benutzt. Das Interface ist nicht so toll, daher nutze ich lieber weiterhin Toot! und bleibe in der Fediverseblase. Bisher habe ich noch keine unfreundlichen Menschen im Fediverse getroffen. Manche Downvotes lassen sich damit erklären, dass das Thema wahrscheinlich nicht interessiert 🤷♂️ Ist das schlecht fürs Karma?
Heise bin ich gleich gefolgt, als der Verlag seine eigene Instanz eröffnet hat. Da die Posts alle von Bots kommen, sind die bei mir mittlerweile weichgezeichnet und ich müsste die immer für die Info anklicken. Zuviel Arbeit. Daher reagiere ich auf Posts mit heise Bezug, wenn diese in meiner Timeline auf Lemmy aufploppen. Sollte vielleicht auch mal statistisch erhoben werden ;)
Does anyone need a #Bluesky code? I have a few & would love to give them to critical academics or #vegan, #environmentalist, pro-#Palestine comrades… maybe you know people who fit that bill and are still stuck on Xitter?
(I love Mastodon but I think BSky is attracting more former chronic #Xitter users to switch over, and really, whatever works at this point)
For this weekend's coding project, I built a tiny single-user Bluesky→ActivityPub one-way bridge I named “Pinhole”. If there's someone on Bluesky whose posts you want in your Mastodon feed, you can download and run it yourself: :fietkau_software: https://fietkau.software/pinhole
Caveats: 1. I intentionally built it anti-scalable: you can use it to follow one Bluesky account from one fedi account, and that's it. 2. You need experience with web servers.
Hashtags were fundamental to how I used Twitter. They helped not only with discoverability but also classification, organization, and community building. #Threads offers none of this. #Bluesky tries to make up for the lack of tags with feeds, but these don't help with topics that emerge on the fly. Only Mastodon offers #hashtags, but for them to work, more people need to enable the option #Mastodon now has to make one's posts visible to search from across the fediverse. @histodons#histodons
It seems like Mastodon is losing its mindshare to #Bluesky among many academics.
I can't help but think this has to do with the self-imposed limitations of Mastdon — lack of quotes, ordered timeline, etc. Makes it less interesting to use, for no real advantage.
Sad, because the underlying decentralization is much more robust.
@LukasBrausch@tiago@academicchatter Last I checked quote tweets were something that #Mastodon was planning to implement so I'm not sure it is relevant to go through why it was objected to once upon a time. Probably more interesting to ask what the current timeline for actually getting it in could be.
What kind of pull are you seeing towards #bluesky in the academic sphere?
🔭🧬🔬 Arranca la segunda jornada del #CGutenberg23 con la mesa "Ponga usted a un comunicador o una comunicadora en su organización" con🗣️Angela Monasor, Rubén Permuy, Núria Saladié y moderada por Concepción Sanz.😉
En mi mini charla sobre ‼️Mastodon y ciencia‼️ en #CGutenberg23 fue “curioso” comprobar (en vivo y en directo) como prácticamente nadie conocía esta plataforma…
🤔¿Pasará lo mismo con #Bluesky o las otras alternativas para la red del pajarito?
Espero haber despertado un pelín la curiosidad en alguna de las personas que estaban por ahí… 🤪
Question for you multi-social media sites people: what is your favorite and why? Mine is definitely the #Fediverse and my #Mastodon account, it is by far the richest experience on social media. #Twitter feels awkwardly half-dead, half-alive, while #Bluesky is mostly an American wasteland.
Wenn BlueSky also irgendwann public ist, müssten Mastodon-User:innen doch mit Bluesky-User:innen interagieren können, sofern die eigene Mastodon-Instanz mit BlueSky föderiert, oder?
@haensel@askfedi_de nein, #bluesky will zwar auch angeblich ein dezentralisiertes system aufbauen aber nicht auf basis von #activitypub sonder ihr eigenes protokoll -
siehe: blueskyweb.xyz
THREAD: This is harrowing. Saudi Arabia wanted the names of 6000 anonymous Arab Spring dissidents from Twitter. At first, MBS tried to get their names using EDRs - requests under emergency circumstances. When that proved cumbersome, KSA basically bought Twitter.
▪️They did so by threatening to pull twitter out of their market (biggest in the Middle East) and by offering to invest in heavily in Twitter. They also positioned two spies inside Twitter who helped funnel the personal information on dissidents out of Twitter to KSA
▪️In 2011, they invested $300M. In 2022, MBS bought that investment for $1.5B, worth $1.9B later that year, making KSA (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) the biggest shareholder of Twitter behind Elon Musk.
▪️The two KSA spies inside Twitter INFORMED Twitter that the personally identifying information they were gathering was for the Saudi Government. One received money and gifts from the KSA in exchange for the user data including $300K and a nice job after he fled the US.
@skykiss This is Jack Dorsey, a founder and former CEO of Twitter. He has started a new social media forum almost exactly like Twitter called #BlueSky.
I caved and joined #BlueSky after a kind friend offered me an invite code.
For now, I think the only thing BlueSky has really going for it is that a lot of my friends have accounts there that never made a #Mastodon account, especially artist friends. Which makes sense because discovery features on Mastodon are only now getting better.
Functionality is super limited, there are no lists, no DMs, no hashtags. But my friends inviting their friends means a large part of my OG community is there.
Zugriffe auf heise.de von Mastodon/Twitter/Bluesky (social.heise.de) German
Seit einer Weile teilt @heiseonline auch Links zu Artikeln auf #Bluesky (aber nicht automatisch wie hier) und da wollte ich jetzt mal vergleichen: Über die aktuell so gehypte #TwitterAlternative sind in drei Monaten so viele auf heise.de gekommen, wie über #Mastodon an einem normalen Wochentag. #Twitter liegt weiter davor....