thinking about writing about this as an interesting internet subculture conflict -- is it that mastodon users are mad that bluesky isn't on activitypub, and then bluesky users are mad that mastodon is mad? and the cultural divide of bluesky being a bit more shitposty and mastodon being more rules-y?
things really kicked off over the possibility of a bridge, but generally speaking there seems to be a fair amount of hostility among blueskiers towards mastodon users and vice versa
a lot of folks on bsky portraying mastodon users as HOA-style control freaks policing everyone else's posts
a lot of folks on mastodon condemning bskiers for using a platform that they see as less open, likely to be enshittified, and tainted by the Dorsey connection
what did for me was that despite months of evangelism, I was never able to get more than two people I knew to actually post to Mastodon. It was a lot easier to get friends to stick with this instead, and that was ultimately the determinant for me
Yeah, this is where the people that I actually interacted with went.
(Some are still on twitter tho)
Mastodon…the server I was on vanished, which, given that most of mastodon is volunteers isn’t actually all that surprising.
more of a me-specific problem, but i never got into mastodon because it felt like too much effort? when i joined, the social server was closed, so i didn't know where to go, picked a random server, then saw there was a journalism server so i went there, then everyone blocked the journalists
I mean my brother in law maintains the family instance, we onboarded people, and still I couldn’t get any traction. Social media is one of those “nobody goes til everyone does” things, and the reason Bluesky clicked for me was that a substantial community did a deliberate airlift to import everyone
