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Timothy B. Lee
@binarybits.bsky.social

What’s the deal with mastodon these days? Has it been losing ground to bluesky? Does it have a different position on the ideological spectrum? It seems likely that one of them will wind up as the default left-of-center Twitter alternative.

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Bluesky seems to have attracted a large portion of the people for whom Mastodon was a little bit too technically weird and was missing features (like search and retweets and a customizable algorithmic feed) that they valued

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Ted Underwood
@tedunderwood.com

This is it. I spent a lot of time on Mastodon a few years back, but I started to despair when it became clear that they were committed to a level of pluralism that made basic discovery features like search controversial to implement.

Tilman Bayer
@tilmanbayer.bsky.social

...I'm a longtime fan of the fediverse idea (was one of those who made sure Wikipedia maintained an official presence on the OG Identica site ca. 2012, also created mastodon.social/@wikiresearch back in 2017, still maintaining it as a mirror of our X feed). But not sure about the current Mastodon

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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

A couple of years ago many in the Mastodon community pushed back hard against the idea of implementing global search because of the potential for it to be used for abuse (to help abusive users find people talking about specific subjects)

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Honestly I think the biggest difference is that the Mastodon community made it very clear that they did not WANT to be the new Twitter, in terms of being a worldwide water cooler Bluesky wants to be that

mr. TIM
@timkellogg.me

i was appalled by the bridgy backlash on masto. that was one of those watershed moments where i started to doubt the fediverse could really make a difference in the world. it doesn’t want to, they’re clear about that, i should’ve believed them

Caitlin is Tired
@looly.bsky.social

Agreed. I tried it for a few months, but the user experience was not a good match for my social media use. I'm here primarily for fun, everything doesn't need to be THAT serious/complex. Bluesky is so easy to personalize and control.