psychothumbs

Yeah X is a big downgrade

Sure the billionaire buying stuff thing happens, but a Nazi billionaire?

To be fair Musk buying twitter and turning it into a Nazi propaganda site was kind of flukey.

Interesting. As with any problematic group that makes the transition it's a bit annoying to have to deal with them on the new platform, but they shouldn't be banned and them moving is a great sign that bluesky has the juice.

Meaning like the rationalist / effective altruism guys? Would have thought they'd be prone to sticking with Musk

Not every social media format is for everyone, no need to be hostile about it. I just can't bring myself to engage with TikTok and Reels and such, but other people really like them and why would that be a problem for me?

Eh idk, Elon boosting right-wing content doesn't mean that nobody was seeing people's anti-Trump posts on there, much less that they did any harm.

The platform is the users but it's also the owners. Twitter got a lot worse when Musk took over and started turning it into a Nazi propaganda platform even though the userbase didn't immediately change.

The way Mastodon is broken up into little communities such that it's hard for anything to go viral and you can't easily search for everything being said about a topic kills a lot of the value of old-twitter. Comes from Mastodon having been created as a twitter alternative with a different philosophy back in the old twitter days, while bluesky is more a reaction to Musk twitter used by people who didn't have a problem with the old version.

I'd be happy enough if it just ended up replicating pre-Musk twitter - that was a cool website! And in practice as you say with the federated decentralized aspect and a core userbase of anti-fascists it will likely be even better.

I think a lot of people were sticking around to follow election news and try to effect the conversation, and are bailing now that it's over in hopes of building up bluesky by the next one.

Bluesky grew out of a project at twitter whose goal was to create a federated protocol. Then when they were split off from twitter when Musk took over they had to start their own twitter-style platform to be the first player in that federated protocol. Now that that part is running they're gradually building out the originally planned system of allowing more servers to be part of the federation: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/federation-architecture