• andrewthe95th@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I feel like you guys are addicted to letting perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, Bluesky being corporate run will probably be an issue down the line, but if it becomes mainstream then people will be used to seeing .APP.INSTANCE and feel more comfortable with the fediverse interface, which I know at least for me was a big hurdle. Like seriously, the fact that the next big thing is federated, even if in name only, is a big step forward.

    • xavier_berthiaume@jlai.lu
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      11 months ago

      Yeah I’m a huge believer in federated systems but I believe that a lot of ‘normies’ going to bluesky is a huge step in the right direction. Even though most don’t know anything about the tech behind it and migrate because twitter has become a bot infested right wing hell scape, they still are one step closer to being fully integrated to the fediverse.

      • airportline@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Bluesky’s ActivityPub support is also leagues better than Threads because of Bridgy Fed. At least a Bluesky user and a Mastodon user can follow each other and have a back-and-forth conversation.

  • Experimental Cyborg@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Mastodon is gatekept to hell and back, the technicalities of federation are exposed to the user for some reason (you already lose half your potential user base right there), infighting between instances means that you won’t see the entire discourse of a post depending on which instance you’re at…

    And besides all that, bsky is not as “corpo” as mastodon fanboys make it out to be. They’re on track to open up to privately hosted instances as well, and you can already run most of their backend stuff yourself.

    • proton_lynx@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      As much as I like the ‘decentralized’ stuff, the technical part of federation should NEVER be exposed to the end user if you want the platform to be mainstream. I still don’t understand why a lot of federated projects think it’s a good idea to expose that to the end user.

      • Jesus@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Whenever Lemmy or Masto gets a flood of new users, a portion of them never make it past the instance selection and totally bail.

        The user experience was designed by people who literally respond to user feedback by telling users to commit new code to the project.

        It’s clearly designed by engineers who assume other users will be just like them.