Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

happens on every "new" social media platform that is similar to another social media platform. Was all over Lemmy when people were "boycotting" reddit...course most went right back to reddit when the boycotting was over.

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

Lemmy is just that but Linux and reddit users

Haha there is a gigantic wave of people switching over from twitter right now, that's just what is on people's minds. The conversation will move on soon enough.

Just like when Threads launched and or when Reddit made the API changes. You get a flood of new users who want to talk about being new users.

On my feed it's just pictures of pets and people who I don't know making lists of things they like. But to be fair, I just installed the app today.

You mean Mastodon?

Not even remotely the same kind of platform

The great thing about BlueSky is how under-the-radar its flown for the last few years. Virtually no advertising. No legions of bot accounts spamming with invites and generic attention baiting posts. No |>u33y N |3io blowing up my mentions. No enshittification, because its just a primitive clone of the original Bird Site.

The more popular it gets, the less likely that'll last. BlueSky won't defeat Twitter until it becomes Twitter.

It’ll only defeat X if corporations and specifically media and sports entities start using it.

I don't understand how those two things are distinct.

Wasn't he forced to do so after trying to back out, or am I either imagining that or thinking of someone else?

Mastodon is more of a protocol than a single service. It succeeds/fails on those terms, in the same way the old Web1.0 protocols did. Which is to say, you can't enshitify a thousand micro-sites at once like you can enshittify one big site that's under central control. But you also can't do things like navigate, search, and socialize efficiently.

Mastodon is successful in large part because it isn't. When you let a single cartel of corporate psychos run a Mastodon account like they would a Twitter or Facebook, you end up with Truth Social (literally just a Mastodon branch instance).

Bluesky is (in theory) federated, but I think you can't run your own server yet. We'll see if they keep their promise.

Its protocol has some improvements over ActivityPub, for example you can use a domain name you own as your username even if you're not hosting your own instance, and your user identity is portable in that case - you can move to a different instance but keep the same username.