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I'd like to preface this by saying that my prefrontal cortex is mostly lard and anxiety medication, so sorry if I sound stupid here.
Why bother with BlueSky over Mastodon?
Bluesky is a "public benefit corporation", whereas Mastodon is proper open source if I understood correctly.
To me "public benefit corporation", just sounds shady. Why should BlueSky be trustworthy? Because of Jack Dorsey?
I know musk turned Twitter into a bizarre fever dream hellscape, but I don't recall it being sunshine and roses under Dorsey's leadership either. The platform would pester me for my phone number to "prevent spam" (they really said that shit with a straight face). White supremacists openly just said awful shit. The video player was ass.
But, I'll be optimistic. Hopefully this won't be Twitter 2: Judgement Day. I hope it will be a good tool for whistleblowers and breaking news. Ideally, it will have a symbiotic relationship with other federated networks instead of a hostile pain in the ass.
Bluesky has a much better community of artists on it. A ton of comics twitter relocated there. And that’s the content I want so I’m on Bluesky. I’ve tried to get Mastodon to serve me content I’m interested in but it just falls short for me.
In the long run it’s about the community. All the philosophical stuff people mega into Mastodon rant on about doesn’t matter to regular people if Mastodon doesn’t have the content they want.
Also Dorsey only owns like 2% of Bluesky now iirc and had mostly cut ties with it in favor of his Nostr thing because he’s butthurt Bluesky is full of liberals.
In addition to content itself there is also ease of finding it and how it's presented. People on here tend to hate algorithms but honestly Mastodon never clicked for me because (when I checked it out) you were stuck with a chronological feed. I dabbled with it but like you I could never get it to serve me content I wanted the way I wanted. Algorithms can be dangerous yes and I don't condone Twitter's and Facebook's outrage baiting, but Mastodon currently just seems to demand too much work out of me.
Yep the power to choose the algorithm you want to use is so nice.