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His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

I don't use Mastadon cause I don't care for micro-blogging, but nevertheless, I like this.

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[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] helvedeshunden@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Lots of little things that add up. Some of the better include temporary muting, hashtags, and hashtag subscriptions. Plus it is resilient with no single point of failure.

[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm pretty sure Bluesky has hashtags. Subscribing to a hashtag and muting someone temporarily is nice. I think the main feature Mastadon is missing is discovery algorithms. Most people use that heavily on social media, whether they admit they value it or not.

[–] helvedeshunden@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is this, then? It’s on the front page of a Mastodon server before you log in and afterwards the discovery section with posts, hashtags, people etc. is on the search page after login. Bluesky was far harder to get a decent feed going on till people started building lists (and those are pretty flawed in that you only follow the individuals - not the list - so it doesn’t update for subscribers).

[–] Dragon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Oh cool, I didn't realize they added that. I tried Mastadon a while ago and couldn't find anything interesting. I don't use any micro blogging apps.

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bluesky has had a very fast development cycle and now already has features it didnt have 6 months ago. Mastodon's main problem IMO is how long it takes for features to make their way into the live version. There are features on their github ready to be merged in for 2 years and when asked, no one on the development team was able to find out why it had not been merged.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 0 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Mastodon's main problem IMO is how long it takes for features to make their way into the live version.

Bluesky's main problem IMO is how it is fundamentally a profit driven venture that cannot tolerate slow and steady growth and how fundamentally, no matter what anyone including the CEO says, Bluesky must and always will unflinchingly support the interests of its investors over the interest of its users, period. To really spell things out here, the continued employment of anyone at Bluesky is fundamentally predicated on their ability and desire to do this very thing.

Bluesky is a business, after all