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this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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I hope it'll start plummeting.
It'll take a while, but I do believe we're watching the downfall of Twitter.
And I suspect, now that Bluesky is the clear successor to Twitter, the process will only accelerate.
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Could bluesky have won over Mastodon because of the fediverse barrier where people doesn't know which server to choose?
Now someone have to write a server to federate to Bluesky, if for nothing more, as a reality check.
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You can choose a different server on Bluesky, too.
Can you? I thought you could in theory, but it was all one server, theirs.
I joined Mastodon and it sucked, I didnt know where I was or what the significance of it was. Not a fan, lemmy is similar but seems to have less compartmentalisation relative to youe server.
I think that's a good part of it, to be honest. Plus I think also helps that Bluesky's handles look visually less confusing and unusual than the conventional double @ sign for the fediverse
@user.bsky.social vs @user@bsky.social
Plus other things like having starter packs
Yes, I think the main problem of Mastodon is that it looks and behaves like if engineers designed it, not designers.
Also helps it was created by Jack Dorsey.
Who's now left Bluesky which is probably for the better given his views on a lot of things
Agreed. Twitter was still a shitshow, when he sold it. Just not as bad as now.
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Who cares...it's just changing one shitpile for the next soon-to-be shitpile. Bluesky will inevitably go down the shitter too once its users have enough inertia to keep them there as they squeeze them dry.
Twitter isn't falling due to not being open source, or not being decentralized, or any of the other reasons I've heard people advocate for mastodon.
People are leaving twitter because it has gone fully right wing in politics. Twitter will not "fail" in the traditional sense. Twitter will fall, but not fail.
Twitter will be the right wing conspiracy platform.
Bluesky will be what twitter was 5 years ago for the left wing.
Nothing else has changed. This isn't a rebellion against corporate social media. This isn't meant to be a fediverse uprising. None of that is happening. This is nothing more than Mary, and Beth who voted for Harris wanting to use twitter how they used to, without right wing agenda being added to their twitter feed. Which is exactly what bluesky is. A twitter clone without the racists.
Twitter went right wing because of the model.
When it’s all about following people and very short forms of communication, it will eventually lean right.
Same way the lemmy format encourages nuance and ideas over people, so it will eventually lean left
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Bluesky is at least semi-decentralized, however, though not to the same extent as something like Mastodon
I'd also argue that Twitter is also uniquely bad even among other problematic platforms
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If nothing else I will personally find it very funny if Elon Musk spent $44,000,000,000 on something and then unintentionally destroyed it in just three years
He didn't spend 44 billion on twitter. He spent 44 billion to gain a hand in the 2024 election. He already won.
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