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by ASalazarMX 317 days ago
I think BlueSky still needs to prove itself. It is what Twitter/X was a decade ago, before the enshittification, and I enjoy the content a lot, with my reservations.

The weakness of Mastodon (and the Fediverse IMO), is that you can join one of many instances, and it becomes easier to form an echo chamber. Your feed will the the Fediverse hose (lots of irrelevant content), your local instance (an echo chamber), or your subscriptions (curating them takes effort). Nevertheless, that might be as well a strength I'm not truly appreciating.
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mwcz 317 days ago
There was a Neal Stephenson novel where curated feeds had become a big business because it was the only tolerable way to browse the Internet. Lately I've been thinking that's more likely to happen.
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Imustaskforhelp 317 days ago
I mean both bluesky and fediverse are just decentralized technologies, so lets say that you are worried about bluesky "enshittening"

I doubt it to happen because of its decentralized-enough nature.

I also agree with the subscriptions curation part the last time I checked, but I didn't use mastodon as often as I used lemmy and it was a less of an issue on lemmy.

Still, I feel like bluesky as an technology is goated and doesn't feel like it can be enshittened.

Nostr on the other hand does seem to me as an echo chamber of crypto bros but honestly, that's the most decentralization as you can ever get. Shame that we are going to get mostly nothing meaningful out of it imo. Which in that case bluesky seems to me as good enough but things like search etc. / the current bluesky is definitely centralized but honestly the same problems kept coming up on fediverse too, lemmy.world was getting too bloated with too many members and even mastodon had only one really famous home server afaik iirc mastodon.social right?

Also I may be wrong, I usually am but iirc mastodon only allows you to comment/ interact with posts on your own server like, I wanted to comment on mastodon.social from some other server but I don't remember being able to do so, maybe skill issue from my side.

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