it works better than twitter
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It has some flaw, but overall it's actually usable.
Bluesky, as a user feels like Twitter used to be.
Threads is the most enjoyable, I feel.
Mastodon, I don't get. I've been on it awhile but it's becoming used less and less by me because I don't see content I'm interested in our want to engage with and I don't know how to change it.
Essentially, everyone is on bsky now. News organizations FINALLY decided to leave Twitter and are spinning up their bsky accounts.
I assume Mastodon is equally capable of recommending things, but if it's a common problem that people aren't patient enough with then it could be fatal. It's still an open question whether federation as its been used thus far is really there yet. I'm not entirely convinced, I'm glad it's being tried. I'll take a stab at it, I've worked on P2P distributed key-value storage for years. No huge ambitions though, I don't really care about this use case. My conception of federation is closer to newsgroups, ideally it's a global namespace for a topic but the feed is controllable by, effectively, a federated moderator web-of-trust that users can selectively opt into and demote mods as a personal preference. Maybe someone else can do it because I'm so disinterested.
Nothing is wrong with it. It is just much earlier in the timeline of becoming twitter/xitter eventually. Maybe it'll take longer this time, maybe the change will be more subtle.
Or maybe it won't happen at all.
Missing some minor features like editing posts.
Bluesky is a platform by and for the most racist liberals.
Let me see the first ten posts in my feed. (I haven't opened today so let's see...)
God saying why is radical left an insult?
Space view with a good picture of Pluto.
God talking about centrists and leftists
More space pictures
Someone talking about a free game on stream
Someone talking about how rpg fans love to insist pokemon isn't rpg
Horror video game protagonist coming across ammo, yeah that isn't ominous.
Some new video games called Anton
We asked A.I. to generate a peak Seahawks game, these were the results.
And
A picture of the helix nebula.
Yup lots of racism and traits.
Somewhat off topic what you're discussing but I've been checking the bsky feed anonymously every day or two and a lot of those recent space pictures are AI. Didn't see those a week ago, seems to be something new.