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   Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:11:54 JST Matthew Haughey

   I spent the past week using Croissant to post identical toots to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all at once.

   Summary:

   1. Mastodon: works as is—friends laugh at my dumb stuff, a few randos painfully explain my joke back to me

   2. Bluesky: you get 2 likes or 200, no in-between.

   3. Threads: my posts got 5 views or 5,000 views, no in-between. Also: context collapse as bad as 2018 Twitter with dozens of randos screaming at me how I'm wrong and I'm an asshole. Humorless.

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     powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:11:50 JST powersoffour

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     @mathowie I recently checked in on Bluesky ... I missed the politics segments of Twitter in 2012, so to me it honestly felt like politics twitter circa 2016-2020. I had a really hard time being exposed to it all again so suddenly.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:11:51 JST Matthew Haughey

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     I used to be bummed that Mastodon was only a slice of my friends that used to follow me on Twitter, too many old friends were missing out.

     They're mostly on Bluesky, but there's so much politics there it feels like 2012 Twitter.

     A few misguided friends only use Threads, and I still don't understand why. They're trying to build the giant public square at Threads and if Twitter has taught us anything it's that smaller communities work better than one giant feed pile for the entire world.

     Xenotar repeated this.
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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 05:11:52 JST Matthew Haughey

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     I feel like Threads is by far the most cursed social network because it's based on the Facebook/Instagram backend. Threads seems good at taking something 40 of your friends got a chuckle out of, and beaming that to someone on the other side of the country that doesn't know who you are or what your deal is and is super fucking pissed off about it.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:03:15 JST Matthew Haughey

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     Every network lets you tweak who can see your posts, whether they're mutual friends or not, but only Bluesky lets you limit who can reply to your posts, which is really handy and something I wish Mastodon would build already.

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     Matthew Haughey (mathowie@xoxo.zone)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 06:03:16 JST Matthew Haughey

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     Despite the different crowds and their behavior on each network, from the writing side of things here's how they rank:

     Mastodon: 500 characters (but you can post thousands if you really wanted to), it's all hidden behind read-more links in most clients.

     ❤️ UNLIMITED EDITING OF YOUR POSTS!

     Bluesky: 300 characters with zero editing, ever.

     Threads: 500 characters but zero editing, ever.

     Mastodon still wins by a mile for writers