Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. - eviltoast
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        the problem is its easier to use because there is virtually no federation. Ive yet to see a user thats not from the flagship bsky.social instance

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          19 hours ago

          I just opened BlueSky to see how many people I followed using their own PDS instance and the fourth post in my feed was from someone using one, and the 7th was from Washington Post who also uses their own.

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          Maybe you’re already aware, but bluesky doesn’t operate with instances like in ActivityPub land.

          I’ve seen many people I believe are using their own PDS, but yes, discoverability is likely better because a relay is meant to aggregate and share all data it can (look up “bluesky firehose”).

          P.S. Mastodon’s devs are part of a new initiative to improve this area of the Fediverse. Because it’s so recent, we’ll have to wait to see how it goes.

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      Mastodon or Lemmy, because you would have to choose an instance and a client. Threads, because why would you?

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          Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don’t care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them.

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            It doesn’t need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don’t care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow.

            Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don’t need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default.

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      I’ve been stupidly trying to convince them to use Mastodon on the same thread on reddit yesterday.

      Some prefer the interface, but I guess the real issue is what stopping them from selling it to another Musk like they did with Twitter.