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.
I stand on this: the function Mastodon was best suited to perform was actually fulfilled by Discord instead. Mastodon was never meant to be a general purpose Twitter replacement, but a way to build specifically-focused communities with a little interoperability as a treat
