So, correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m going to go out here on a limb and say that it seems to me that the majority of good faith #bsky criticism of the vibe on mastodon, calling it “stuffy” and “no fun”, comes from people who joined mastodon.social, after complaining loudly that there was no default instance to quickly onboard people to the new service.
So like, the irony, I guess, is what hit me this morning.
My current social media accounts are Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram, Bluesky, Spoutible, Post, LinkedIn.
That's too many. but my main side hustle really relies on social engagement so I cast a wide net when Twitter went wild.
Now I am evaluating and going to cut back. The two main accounts that need to stay are Instagram and Mastodon. (I get no professional benefits to Masto, I just like it here).
@danarel I have #birdsite#facepalm#whalesite#insta waiting for #bsky and I have qualms with all...but most espeically that I should need more than a single social media platform. No invite from bs yet, FB has no community standards, Insta is FB for a different demographic, TW is a dumpster fire but at least works and makes me laugh---but the unmentionable whale is a nasty, deceptive echo-chamber that doesn't really deliver on its promise.
I bring impressions and takes from 12 hours occasionally glancing at #bluesky social and reading about the tech
The #federation concept and approach to personal data / profile portability and security is neat. I’ll be interested to see how that progresses in practice over the next months and year, and how much cross pollination there ends up being between #fedi / #activitypub and #bsky / #atproto
And then, unfortunately, at the moment there’s an.. oddly designed feature that enables some people to be total sleezeballs and rack up thousands / 10s of thousands of follows (yes! I saw an account with >40k follows!), in what I can only guess is a vain attempt at creating an influence-y social fiefdom early in the vacuum with few heavy hitters. I find it really distasteful and don’t plan on touching bsky until there’s a mitigation.
Call me a romantic, but I like to feel like I’m in a small community and sorta get to “know” the people following me? And have others discover me organically?