The reason why Twitter was renamed to X is because everyone wants to press X to doubt when Elon promises something like full self-driving.
I think itâs kinda of weird to complain about the content of an algorithmic feed when you donât give the feed anything to work with. Without that itâs probably just showing what is âviralâ at this particularly point in time.
My âDiscoverâ feed shows me mostly interesting posts/people.
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While this is true, I still donât get why bluesky chose against federating with activitypub considering thatâs what everyone else uses. I donât like the idea of constantly reinventing the wheel when it locks people out of the ecosystem.
Honestly social media in general is just bad, federated alternatives included.
Bluesky is self hostable and theyâre currently working on federation 
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Bluesky does have VC money, but is also supposed to be a public benefit LLC. Eventually theyâll need to make money to support the site, infra and staff, either with ads and/or subscriptions.
For self hosting, not sure what that brings. Fediverse has the large Mastodon codebase and some derivatives, and things like gotosocial.org
Iâll sit out from signing up and see how it develops. I see no pressure to join. I do like my Mastodon feeds. X is read only for me.
Yep, theyâve confirmed theyâre working on an optional subscription for the site
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Most importantly bsky is not messing with your home feed, itâs in chronological order, as intended by the universe. 
The possibility to create an infinite amount of custom feeds is also very nice.
Imagine being able to read about the things you actually want to see and not what some algorithm you have no control about decides for you.
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Even better, you can also choose to have an algorithm you have no control over decide what you see 
Gotta love choicesđ
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This looks really promising and it honestly make me happy people are actually switching to a âgoodâ choice.
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I think the protocol they are developing is very interesting and if works as promised, it will solve my biggest problem with Mastodon et al: your identity is owned by the instance you sign up on, and you can only migrate between instances if they collaborate.
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A mastodon opinion piece about Bluesky.
While I generally avoid politics on this blog, itâs hard to ignore the political biases permeating X and BlueSky. X has veered heavily toward far-right ideologies, while BlueSky is often associated with far-left communities. This polarized landscape doesnât work for those of us seeking a neutral space for meaningful interactions. Mastodonâs structure, lacking an algorithm to push specific content, gives users freedom to create a feed that genuinely reflects their interests.
This is a good point. Unfortunately, it seems that some busybody Mastodon users have compiled large blacklists of âbadâ servers and many servers wonât federate with others (okay, fine) and wonât federate with servers that donât block other servers (wtf). In other words: server A defederates from server B but also threatens to defederate from server C if server C doesnât defederate from server B, too. So over time you end up with more and more sub-networks that donât speak with each other, which makes the whole idea of federation a bit pointless. I think blacklisting/whitelisting should only happen on the user level, not server level, but here we are. Good luck finding a homeserver where you can communicate with the whole Mastodon universe without your admin blocking other servers for political reasons or those servers blocking yours.
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The solution is to avoid concentrating around a few servers so that they do not have the leverage to coerce other servers into aligning with their ideology. Unfortunately, many people just want an echo chamber of like-minded individuals, which is not constructive and only serves to inhibit meaningful discourse.
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Itâs worth noting that âfar-leftâ in US terms means center, center-left or slightly left on the rest of the planet.
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I think itâs a bit of an oversimplification to say these terms have universal meanings outside the US.
In my experience, a bigger issue with these new platforms like Bluesky is that even if the accounts you want to follow are on the platform, the discussion that follows is often minimal due to their smaller size.
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re-formulated initial response, unfortunate that my post was hidden while prior off-topic posts were manually approved.
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Indeed, most people I follow are not in mastodon. Afaik, you should be able to follow accounts across the platforms. I have never tried yet myself.
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Unfortunately all the people I want to hear from are not on Bluesky⌠so that sorta kills it for me, at least for now.
This makes mastodon almost unusable in my opinion. Though in principle Mastodon is the superior platform, the state it currently is in is even worse than Twitterâs.
When you start seeing this kind of trend, itâs almost impossible to not be in an echo chamber, itâs either the far left or the far right one. Pick your poison.
I think that if Twitter had died, we would see a more interesting landscape. As it stands, most centrists or right-leaning individuals have little reason to move away from Twitter.
I think most people here would (for one reason or another) agree that it would be better if Twitter just died.
For me personally, I would like to see a federated system succeed, but I would also appreciate it if people took some time to really consider what such a system should look like. As it stands, many of these protocols have various flaws, and others are just ripoffs of Twitter, hoping to catch the attention of users looking for a new âhomeâ.
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Itâs been awhile Iâve seen such excitement for a platform. Lots of medias calling this the X-odus. I see articles everyday on bluesky since Trump won. Itâll eventually settle down, but the fact it hasnât died off yet with some celebrities leaving X, looks also promising.
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