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   Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:05:50 JST Helge Heß

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   • Rhys Morgan

   @rhysmorgan The argument is weak, the same people don't realise what they are getting into w/ BSky either. It's essentially the same like opting for mastodon.social, except much worse. There are not options in the the first place, *if* you care 🙃
   Maybe a value proposition of BSky is that "we are exactly like Twitter". But then you wonder why people want to see the same thing happening over and over again ...

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     Rhys Morgan (rhysmorgan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:05:51 JST Rhys Morgan

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     @helge I think it’s much more that it’s not just “tech”. About the only people from my Twitter feed who moved to Mastodon were tech-adjacent. Many, many more people moved to Bluesky. I think some early Bluesky adopters’ attitudes and the lack of having to choose a server on Bluesky helped a LOT.

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:05:51 JST Helge Heß

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     • Rhys Morgan

     @rhysmorgan I assume most of those people have been Americans? I don't know a single non-tech person on BSky, while I know quite a few on Masto. But yes, even more on Twitter.
     The "having to choose an instance" is just boring non-sense. You can just do mastodon.social if you don't care.

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     Rhys Morgan (rhysmorgan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:05:51 JST Rhys Morgan

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     @helge Nope, Brits. It’s not “boring nonsense”, it’s a consequential decision, and yet another thing that people have to decide - without any clear explanation or understanding of what it means. And when smaller instances admins can and have just blocked out other instances for fairly minor disagreements, it’s a decision that has an impact on people’s time on Mastodon.

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     Helge Heß (helge@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:05:52 JST Helge Heß

     I sometimes wonder whether the sole USP of BSky is that it is American. It's not meaningfully different to Masto. But you get a proper company backing it, with the goal to make a lot of money out of it. Not that communist crap where you sponsor or not as you see fit ;-)

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     Rhys Morgan (rhysmorgan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 16:43:08 JST Rhys Morgan

     • obrhoff

     @obrhoff @helge It’s not (just) about “reach”. It’s about going where their friends are. That’s not “cheap”, that’s pretty normal.
     You’re right - very, very, very few people care about the mechanics of their social media, whether it’s decentralised, federated, etc. They care that it’s where their friends are.