So here’s my thought on the Mastodon/Bluesky divide.
Try every network so you know it’s out there. Know that there are some people who want certain things out of their social media. Know that those may not be the things you want.
I don’t particularly love image-driven social media, so I mostly stay off Instagram. I value openness, so I found a home here.
There are some nice features on Mastodon. There are some nice features on Bluesky. They may not be the things you, personally, want.
good thread but #BlueSky isn't a network yet. Mastodon is not the #fediverse and like the web, all types of things/experiences will exist here. The beauty is we're not reliant on any company to determine it's in their economic self interest to build out a new concept for us. And whatever gets built, can still be connected to everything else. we need journalists to explain this to people, cause like the #openweb of the early 90s, it will only get better as more people understand/use it.
The #Bluesky suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers.
Finally gotten #MissRirica to work on the #MacOS side of things! (Which will also translate to #Android if I use that version).
Bad News:
A. Ya need to generate an access token from the #Misskey instance you’re on via the web interface among the ‘Settings’ section.
B. Not surprisingly, the app’s interface is… Um…
I see we’ve reached the stage where there’s a lot of complaining that Mastodon isn’t a utopia. Utopias are myths. Functioning, improving societies are messy and require a lot of hard work by a lot of people. The #Fediverse is still the best hope for the future of the social internet.
If you need help with using Mastodon :mastodon: and the Fediverse :fediverse: you can ask me for help, but please check the website at https://fedi.tips first. It has lots of questions answered!
If you can't find what you need on the site, just mention me or message me and I will reply to you as a DM.
(I'm not doing publicly-visible replies from this account any more, as most people don't need to see them.)
I'm liking it a lot.
Love 3000char posts.
UI is clean & a real step up.
The sign up process was easy +simple.
Importing who I follow .csv equally simple.
Excited about post editing in future.
The killer feature for me is importing posts from previous server. When that goes back online really keen to try that out.
What I like about Mastodon so far: great (iOS) apps and some good interactions. Sometimes it feels like the “good old days”.
But there seems to be a lot of negativity, too. Posting on Mastodon that you don’t like Twitter, Musk, Bluesky, BigTech, etc. doesn’t make this an interesting thing imho. And decentralization is great, but not the number one thing for most of the users. It’s interesting content and culture. And that’s what I still have not found unfortunately…
Hello! @diymusicchat I'm tryin out a new thing, hoping to get more participation and engagement across the #Fediverse for weekly #DIYMusicChat, Sundays at noon, central time zone in the US.
Did you know boosts help federate the hashtag across servers, fam?
Really pissed to find out that a block means nothing on #calckey or #mastodon. Feeling ick being able to see the former partner of a friend who I have blocked, because someone on blahaj.zone has replied to them and there they are now sitting in the local timeline. They really fucked my friend up for years with their sociopathic manipulation.
Now I find out that she can see me if I'm not set to private. Why can't a block be an actual fucking block?
This is the basic shit many folks have been asking for while devs just fuck around with their basic bro stuff.
I really don't want to leave the #Fediverse, but how the fuck is this safe??? How can I feel safe knowing that she can potentially see me? I'd be safer back on the bird site.
With the diversity of fediverse services available many using a dedicated app will we see a unified app option? Or will we still need service specific apps for certain tasks. I know I don't like having a ton of apps installed on my phone, don't know how many others feel the same.
An analogy we often use on the fediverse with respect to its decentralized nature is email. You didn't get an account on "The Email" you got an account on an email server which knew how to talk to other email servers. It is a great analogy. I've fallen into the trap of extending that to think that people used to get decentralized systems and it wasn't a barrier to entry but now they don't thanks to big tech changing expectations. While there is some of that a lot of that perception is rose colored glasses. The problem here goes back to the analysis paralysis of having to pick a server rather than there being some automatic default that "just works". "Didn't we do that with email?" Did we? Most people's first email accounts were from their ISP. Most places didn't have much selection of ISPs so you got "the internet" and "an email address" came along with it. If their first address wasn't a personal one at home it was one from work. Work made the decision for them. Even in the peak days of dialup many people's first internet experience was actually AOL not the raw internet. AOL came with an internet email address that "just worked". The aversion to extra inertia of having to choose servers or services at sign up time may be a bit higher than it was before FAANG took over the internet but it's still back to the same problem: human nature. #FAANG#fediverse#SocialMedia#commentary
If the server I use defederates mastodon.social because it is "too big" than I’m switching to another server, if everyone starts defederating servers when they become too big all that would do is turn the #Fediverse into a fragmented mess, which is the opposite of what it is supposed to be
The new site for Calckey looks great (kudos to @kainoa and everyone else who worked on it), but my favorite part is this comprehensive feature comparison table at the bottom of the page: https://calckey.org/#comparison