Even before the U.S. election sped up an exodus from the Elon Musk-owned site, X had reportedly lost one-fifth of its active users in the U.S. and one-third in the U.K.. Bluesky seems to have the juice to win over some of those fleeing users — especially journalists and others interested in news …
  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
    25·
    7 days ago

    careful, people on lemmy will attack you for saying anything other than bluesky is bad and that mastodon is the only way forward

      • JeffKerman1999@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        51·
        6 days ago

        Yes but my mastodon is either empty or full of Nazis until something gets banned. Threads is a bunch of old white dudes lecturing everyone about everything. On bsky I found most of the stuff I care about. Unfortunately that’s where people are going.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          i cant find shit to do on mastodon. bluesky has the feeds which flung the door to folks i like to follow right open. its the better platform- id prefer it if it was decentralized but alas, like you said, thats where the herd wandered

        • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
          41·
          6 days ago

          I’ve been on Mastodon for a long time, and I haven’t seen a single Nazi. If your Mastodon is “empty or full of Nazis,” my guess is there’s one of four things going on:

          • You aren’t following/followed by good people. Use hashtags, boost toots, follow people back, follow accounts that try to share interesting accounts or hashtags.

            • A subpoint here might be to make sure you’re liberally applying the ban and mute functions for bad actors. For especially bad ones, report them.

          • You aren’t following hashtags. Similar to the above, there’s no algorithm. You decide what your feed looks like, and following hashtags for subjects you’re interested in will help you find good people and good commentary (this is much healthier than letting a dumb algorithm decide what you’ll find “most engaging,” anyway)

          • You are looking at the Local or Global feeds too often. Depending on your instance’s federation rules, you are more likely to find those aforementioned “bad actors” here, since these feeds are not curated.

          • Your definition of “Nazi” is the one that means “anyone left of Marxists,” or, “supports Democrats,” and if so, that’s watering down the meaning of the word and giving cover to the real Nazis.

          Whatever the case, if the people you’re seeing aren’t sharing your ideals, pick a different instance or spin up your own, and/or do the things I suggested (insomuch as they are relevant to you). My Mastodon feed is filled with artists and just generally positive people trying to do some good in the world.

            • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              Hashtag follows were a game changer for my experience. The people that remember to use them usually care about what they’re saying, too, and seem to be more invested in the Fedi way of doing things.

              I also recommend https://fedi.tips/ for getting started.

          • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            6 days ago

            following hashtags

            That’s the advice i usually give: hashtags, not people… interesting people will follow.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I think people have mostly given up on that, going from the posts I’ve seen. Like how most people will admit Linux isn’t for everyone.

      • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        The post about Stephen King moving to Threads says otherwise. But to be fair, it’s Threads and not Bluesky, which people here hate more.