Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival. Also, in this case, they apparently don’t see a problem with leaving Twitter because it’s MAGA to join BS which is backed by MAGA money. Convenience über alles. Ethics be damned. I’m fine with people like that not joining the fediverse.

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[–] Today@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Can you guys help explain it to someone completely inexperienced?

I had Twitter but only used it for following music venues to see upcoming events and bars for happy hour updates. I have a Mastodon account but only played with it for a few minutes because i didn't really get it. I don't understand following a person. What can one person have to say that i would care enough about to download an app. What am i missing?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 points 20 hours ago

It isn't one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine if there were two twitters, and you only sign up for one but you can read and comment on posts for both.

Now imagine if anybody can install their own Twitter, and anybody else can sign up on either one, and they can all talk to each other like that.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

It wasn't why Mastodon. It was why Twitter or twitter-like apps.

[–] Chef_Boyardee@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

It's because of the connotation with an overrated metal band of the same name.

/s for the overly serious

[–] djidane535@sh.itjust.works 8 points 23 hours ago

I think it’s much more difficult to find people to follow. I personally struggle a lot, and will likely either gave up the micro-blogging system or try another platform. It was great on Twitter before Musk bought it, but since I left, I have yet to find an alternative.

[–] grimer@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Simplicity.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

Star power. High production values. Less complex (appears to be more centralized, immediately easy to conceptualize as "twitter but not right wing")

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

What is with all these wall of text answers guys?

Twitter people like Twitter and Twitter man for making it. Twitter now not Twitter is now X and no more Twitter man. Twitter people not like TeslaSpace man. Twitter man make BlueSky.

No elephant needed to make this story work. Remember: twitter brain cannot handle too many characters.

[–] Intergalactic@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I wrote an article on this last night.

https://aidanraymond.medium.com/why-bluesky-isnt-the-alternative-to-x-formerly-twitter-you-re-looking-for-and-why-mastodon-is-46c8901f2748

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 17 hours ago

Since bluesky is mit licensed, what's to stop a fork if something goes wrong?

what's to stop a activitypub and atproto compatibility?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Because no one made a droolproof guide to migrating to Mastodon and Bluesky put money into it.

For people who can't remember their password, it's preferable.

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Americans love to pretend they are cowboys. In reality they love centralised power and bureaucracy. They are deeply afraid of each other so they flock to platforms that pretend to be for freedom, but is actually highly regulated by centralised power. That’s why they love tech-oligarchs that pretend to be self made geniuses. It allows them to fantasise about freedom to succeed and submit to power at the same time.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 22 hours ago

People hated him because he spoke the truth.

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Mastodon has been around since 2016 and has 804k MAU.

The platform has 57 third party apps.

The platform is decentralized and has community ran servers.

Are you asking about "people" or "nerds"? People prefer Bluesky due to its simplicity and momentum. There are more popular outlets using it. If you're assuming that People would prefer the complexity of the Fediverse and instances, if you think People know what a decentralized community run server is, you're a "nerd" (for lack of a better term, I'm sorry).

The battle has always been the same: Windows v. Apple, Android v. iOS, SMS Twitter v. App Twitter. Some people prefer flexibility and investing time in making things work the way they want (Nerds). Some people want an out of the box product that's well designed and efficient (People).

Fifty Seven Third Party Apps is not a selling point - that's called anxiety inducing fragmentation. Some people want to walk down the grocery store aisle and choose between 57 options for toilet paper and some people just want "good", "better", "best". The reality is that most people just want to be told what to do. They have too much shit going on in their lives to care about "decentralization".

Mastodon will never challenge well financed closed or semi-open platforms. As it's designed, it's apparent it never intended to. It will continue to grow at a slow rate as an alternative. Hopefully, the fediverse is realized and you can choose to host your own server and gain access to other social platforms.

The reality is that this stuff costs money. In the near future, you'll have the same three choices with social media as we do with other services: ad-subsidized, subscription, self-hosted. Anything with ads is going to have an algorithm. Anything with a subscription is going to have a board of directors. Selfhosting comes with a steep learning curve.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee -2 points 21 hours ago

whay, or rather who is Blue sky?

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