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   nadiaalbelushi (nadiaalbelushi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 06:18:43 JST nadiaalbelushi

   #Mastodon wipes the floor with #Bluesky. This place feels like a community. You actually get engagements here, no matter how big or small your account is. Your followers are ALSO your mutuals. On Bsky, OTOH, you get algorithmic feeds that amplify only popular accounts, little engagement unless you're a victim of dogpiling, closed-membership feeds, etc. Nobody uses hashtags or the search function. It's centralized and yet fragmented into empty echo chambers. Bsky is gonna fail.

   #fediverse #tech

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 06:18:40 JST Sean Bala

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     @nadiaalbelushi Thank you for sharing your experience on #Bluesky. The fact that I saw the post speaks to your point! I have been wondering how the network is working in practice. In my glance over my inactive followed accounts, I see a lot of academics seemed to move to BlueSky. One person who did said that they were able to build their small network of like-minded experts there during the beta so there was already a network waiting. Makes me sad but maybe some people will move back!

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     nadiaalbelushi (nadiaalbelushi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 06:18:41 JST nadiaalbelushi

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     I spent a week on #Bluesky doing a social experiment. It was an exercise in depression. #Mastodon is the best new #socialmedia, by far. On Bsky, nobody uses the search function or hashtags like #science to discover posts. You're stuck to one science feed that's a closed-membership algorithmic coffin that only boosts large long-established accounts. It felt like I was in solitary confinement. You're forced to play the "social ladder" game, which encourages twitter-style toxicity.
     #fediverse #tech

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     nadiaalbelushi (nadiaalbelushi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 06:18:42 JST nadiaalbelushi

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     On #Mastodon, a biologist can post something about biology and get engagements from non-biologists. Their post could also trend for the day and be widely received by people of all different walks of life. On Bluesky this CANNOT possibly happen. Everyone is in their own closed-membership algorithmic bubble/feed where only the same large accounts are amplified. You can't break through these barriers. It's a rerun of what led to twitter's demise. It's not "new #socialmedia" at all.
     #fediverse #tech

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     Sean Bala (seanbala@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 06:20:41 JST Sean Bala

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     @nadiaalbelushi I haven't quite understood the rationale for BlueSky or the need for another protocol other than one tech bro wants their thing to be the the thing. I've discovered so many cool people here I would have never encountered in algorithmically driven social media. The chronological feed has its flaws. But think it is the worst method after all the others. Thanks once again for sharing your experience!

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