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   LiteralGrill (literalgrill@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:23:55 JST LiteralGrill

   I keep thinking about how Brazil ended up overwhelmingly choosing Bluesky and have come to an unexpected conclusion.

   It's likely if they had actually chosen Mastodon, they'd have gone to .social anyways. So they probably made the right decision in terms of moderation, tools available to them to find old friends from Twitter, and features they care most about.

   #Bluesky #Mastodon #Twitter

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     LiteralGrill (literalgrill@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:23:52 JST LiteralGrill

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     There are reasons I ADORE fedi and will keep using it. But truthfully, I think it's time we stop pandering to crowds we stand no chance at attracting until problems get fixed.

     If smaller servers formed a federation of their own to put pressure on Mastodon and .social to actually make changes marginalized folks keep asking for? Actually threatened mass defederation from .social to leave them alone on an island to make their own thing? Maybe we'd see an uptick in popularity as people show interest.

     Till then, this place will be its own quite successful niche, never a true "Twitter replacement." And honestly, I don't think many users actually want this to be a Twitter replacement anyways. with how they act.

     #Bluesky #Mastodon #Twitter

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     LiteralGrill (literalgrill@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:23:53 JST LiteralGrill

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     They had a few days tops to look and decide where they wanted to be. People didn't want to waste them on figuring out how/where they should join.

     Hell, first time joiners don't know about the various dramas between popular instances either. You wanna know why so many choose .social? Because they don't have to figure out which server defederated which when they wanna talk with their friends. (Info they basically can't find reasonably without already being active here.)

     Example, where do you post about anime on Lemmy? Choose the most searchable server, you'll find a dead sub with moderator drama. You have to be in the know to find ani.social.

     #Bluesky #Mastodon #Twitter

     BeAware :fediverse: and Bill repeated this.
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     LiteralGrill (literalgrill@sakurajima.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 05:23:54 JST LiteralGrill

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     You know how so many people say, "choose a smaller instance, get off .social" right? How so many people have miserable times on the Fedi due to .social in general?

     Folks aren't having that on Bluesky right now to what I can see. We can lament folks not choosing to come here all we want, claim it's better, but for what a lot of people want and need it simply currently is not true.

     #Bluesky #Mastodon #Twitter