The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky - phillipjreese.com
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As users flee from Twitter/X, two visions of social media's future compete: Mastodon's community-controlled network versus Bluesky's venture-backed promises. The difference isn't just technical—it's about whether we'll finally break free from the profit-driven cycle that has degraded every major social platform.
  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    SYAC: The key sentence: "Bluesky, despite its innovative technology and good intentions, is built on the same venture-capital-backed foundation that has led so many promising platforms to eventually prioritize shareholders over users. " Mastodent wins!

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I look forward to the documentary.

    “Mastodon: Victory Through Technical Superiority”, available soon on Laserdisc and Betamax

    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think anybody who administers a mastodon server thinks it’s superior technology.

      What mastodon isn’t is funded by fashy techbro asswipe VCs who will turn it into a torment nexus over time, just like X and Meta and Alphabet.

      So Mastodon will continue to attract a small minority of people who don’t feel safe or wanted on a fashbro site. And that’s fine. I want to talk to people who think I’m human, not a bunch of Andrew Tate gargling fuck heads.

    • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I don’t think anyone is claiming technical superiority. And certainly not financial superiority.

      But maybe some kind of resilience to the forces of destruction plaguing commercial social media.

    • coacoamelky@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Feeling like the mastodon crowd are preaching on soap boxes here. Not a bad product but will it attract the general public, probably not .

        • khaleer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          1 month ago

          People prefer to drown than pick option which is not corporate bullshit. Bluesky won because it’s centralized, and people don’t have to decide over instance.

  • Ⓜ3️⃣3️⃣ 🌌@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    All true. And yet sadly until mastodon or better say another fediverse instance do have algorithms and a brain dead stupid onboarding and hyper cool phone apps, that will not do for 99% of the people.

    • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      1 month ago

      There will always be two types of users: people looking to connect and people looking to be entertained. Fedi is better at the former and commercial better at the latter.