The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

Lemmy does not understand that people are leaving X cuz of Nazis, not cuz it’s a centralized corpo platform.

People are leaving Muskrats fascist supporting platform. So what if they aren't going to Mastedon, they're leaving Twitter. Isn't that enough for us?

I don't need Mastedon to win. I just want Twitter to lose. Once Twitter has been (hopefully) de-platformed we can talk about Mastedon and the Fediverse and the idea of a non-corpo platform.

But it terms of main stream casual appeal, Mastedon still doesn't have it yet, and that's okay.

Mastedon needs to get more casual with the introduction to the Fediverse because for everyday non-tech people, it can be a little confusing.

People see Bluesky as the Twitter replacement because of its simplicity.

I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.

The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.

He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don't need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.

Bluesky is not great, but it's at least (for now) a better platform than X and the AT protocol is actually very well written. (For instance having a moderation service separated from the service that provides the posts I think is a hands-down better way to handle it than most ActivityPub servers having their admins handle all incoming and outgoing moderation)

Bluesky federation is just now getting started so it'll be interesting to see if it goes anywhere/where it goes.

That decentralized and self-hostable platforms like Lemmy are fringe does not give me hope for the future of social networks on the Internet.

The CEO of Bluesky just posted they hit 17M users today after hitting 16M in the last 24 hours.

The juice is juicin'.

Anything which drives nails into the xitter coffin is a good thing as far as I'm concerned. Bluesky may not tick many people's boxes here on lemmy, but this migration shows that lots of people wanted to leave xitter but didn't see an option. Threads clearly didn't attract them, likely due to the owner. I hope it nothing else, Bluesky is a less toxic place and xitter and musk become less relevant. In the long run Bluesky may end up being another head of the hydra , but for now, it's not, and it may get people used to the idea of federation.

Whhhhhhy?

This is the same thing. This is the exact same type of platform that will eventually go the same way. This is shooting yourself in the foot once, then aiming the shotgun at the other foot and pulling the trigger thinking that the bullet was a fluke the first time.

How does another social media ruled by a billionaire gives hope?

Shame that it's another Capital-owned platform taking the spotlight. I'm not surprised unfortunately. We'll be in the same place we are now in 10 years.

I'm preaching to the choir, but mastodon is the better platform if you want more authentic community and conversation.

I think this time it actually has some teeth to it, even big famous artists like Lack are on blue sky now, my feed is looking pretty good daily now where before I had to wait a few days before checking it out.

I hope some of them come to the Fediverse. It's nice that only the curious ones will come.

I'm really enjoying Bluesky strangely enough, not normally my thing.

If it was owned by the community that moderated it, then yes. But no it's owned by another rich asshole.

The wrong migration to IMHO…

Anybody recommend a good mastodon instance?

It's venture capital. Eventually it will stop being open source and will enshitify just like every other platform. So nothing is changing long term in my opinion.

The main thing I would like to know is why so many people nowadays want a microblog platform, whether it is X or Bluesky or Mastodon, and why community-based platforms like Lemmy are getting relatively little attention in comparison.

Is it just that these people weren't seriously online before the rise of microblogs? They didn't start out with phpBB-style forums, so don't miss their existence and think that individuals having followers is the normal state of the Internet? I'm genuinely not super sure what's going on.

quite the opposite for me. bluesky is a centralized platform owned by capital exactly like twitter, thus prone to the same issues.

migrating to bluesky instead of mastodon will just delay the problem.

Someone has to do a mastodon instance called Bluesky

is also decentralized and is federated, meaning it is moving toward a future where users “own” their audiences and can port them elsewhere (you can, and many do, argue about the details here, and about the differences between ActivityPub, which Mastodon uses, and the AT Protocol, which Bluesky uses).

Best coverage yet for that alone

Wish they would go to Mastodon, even Threads which is on the fediverse.

What a fucking lib take... See you on Mastodon after Dorsey fuck y'all over again

I just moved our D&D account over there.

Why?

The internet at large is still a cesspool.

The only difference is who is in control of it.

the great migration to another investor-backed patiently waiting disaster. enjoy it while it's good. if only they used activitypub. Mastodon is just too confusing for the average person, it will never take off. bluesky streamlines everything into being simple and understandable to the average user. I laugh when I see people circle jerking about being better than twitter when in reality it was started by the same people and all it takes is someone with too much money and it'll be another fall-off story.

edit: I say this as someone who uses it, beats using shitter in it's festering decaying state.

I don't know. Lots of folks pointing out That Part Of Twitter (TPOT) also migrating over.

Bluesky is run by the founder of twitter, which took far too long to ban Trump the first time round. I don't know why so many people are giving him another chance to do the same shit again.

EDIT: I stand corrected. Dorsey left.

Now left-wing has their own echo chamber, hurray

do we really want people that waited until now to even think about an alternative to fascists media?

Most smart people left Twitter years ago. Dont make the same mistakes again and again. We can build a better web on the fedi. Heavily EDITED lol.