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Can "tech journalists" shut the fuck up about things they have an irrational fear of understanding how they work and how #Mastodon is the best :reimu_sigh:

The fact that I can quote post you right now and you can't do anything about it (unlike in #Bluesky where you can detach your post from a quote you don't like) should already tell a lot of users which #SNS cares about giving users control over how their (micro)blogs look. Which is something the ActivityPub-powered fediverse has time and time again disappoints such users.

All the worry about corporate backing of Bluesky (which is a valid concern, but it is not the "world-ending" severity people want you to think) is made irrelevant by the PDS (I am in a non-Bluesky PDS since day one of trying it) and the decoupling of user data from the "app". Sure there is no incentive right now to create a "fully non-commercial" version of Bluesky which indexes all Bluesky posts. But once there is and Bluesky does turn against its users (which I do think is a possibility in the future), then no harm is done because users can migrate everything away from Bluesky's infrastructure and pretend like nothing happened. This is not (yet) a possibility in #ActivityPub where admins closing down their instances for the most ridiculous reasons happen from time-to-time and cause very significant disruptions for both users and the network.Essentially, it's [Mastodon] a community where the users have the powerAs I've hinted earlier, not necessarily. Admins hold the power. Users can "have the power" too by making their own instance, but this is not always realistic (you have to worry about moderation, keeping it up-to-date, make sure it is up 24/7, etc, but moderation is more important). Compare that to a PDS where there's no such thing as worrying about moderating remote users or putting up anti-spam measures once setup.This means that as a Mastodon user, you can interact across [ActivityPub] platforms seamlesslyThis is possible in Bluesky and other #ATProto apps, and it's no longer theoretical with the arrival of #WhiteWind and #PinkSea which interops meaningfully (the technical equivalent of "federation") with Bluesky.While I generally avoid politics on this blog, it’s hard to ignore the political biases permeating X and BlueSky. X has veered heavily toward far-right ideologies, while BlueSky is often associated with far-left communities. This polarized landscape doesn’t work for those of us seeking a neutral space for meaningful interactions.One look at the "fediblock" and "fediantisemitism" hashtags will reveal that such extreme spaces exist here in fedi too.Mastodon's structure, lacking an algorithm to push specific content, gives users freedom to create a feed that genuinely reflects their interests.You can choose not to have an algorithm curating your feed in both Twitter and Bluesky, and this insistence that "all algorithms bad" also alienates those who do find a curating algorithm useful

RE: https://me.dm/users/TechThreadsByAidan/statuses/113478642945215300