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   John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 14:51:30 JST John Gruber

   Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 14:51:42 JST Chris Trottier

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     @gruber Okay, but have you tried #Calckey?

     You say that "Mastodon" isn't designed to be simple. But I'm telling you there's more to see on the Fediverse than Mastodon.

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 14:51:45 JST Chris Trottier

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     @gruber Okay, but have you tried #Calckey?

     You say that "Mastodon" is designed to be simple. But I'm telling you there's more to see on the Fediverse than Mastodon.

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     John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-May-2023 16:40:06 JST John Gruber

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     • Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

     I’m not trying to provoke. I like Mastodon, especially using @ivory, and I love the community I’m in here. And maybe our community will stay here. What makes Mastodon good for us nerds is that all the non-nerds aren’t here.

     But it’s obvious already: regular people instantly grok Bluesky. They’ve had months to sign up for Mastodon and haven’t — because they don’t understand it, and what they see of it doesn’t look like fun.

     As soon as they see Bluesky they start trying to score an invite code.

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     John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 00:53:00 JST John Gruber

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     • CharlieG

     @Charles it’s just very obvious when I compare my two feeds. I go to Bluesky, and I see people goofing around and blowing off steam. I don’t see that on Mastodon.

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     CharlieG (charles@gascoigne.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 00:53:01 JST CharlieG

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     @gruber There’s something a bit po-faced and activist-y about Mastodon — kinda like Linux — but I think part of Bluesky’s energy is that tech journos are promoting it to a weird extent. What is it that makes it fun, exactly? A carefully curated set of invitations to make the people they need to give it momentum think it’s fun?