I’ve been reading that BlueSky has reached critical mass and is snowballing well at the moment. I suspect it has drawn people away from the fedi and back into the loving embrace of venture capitalists.
I’ve been reading that BlueSky has reached critical mass and is snowballing well at the moment. I suspect it has drawn people away from the fedi and back into the loving embrace of venture capitalists.
Once in a blue moon I remember that I have a Mastodon account. And I use it mostly because of the cross-compatibility with other Fediverse applications, something that Bluesky lacks.
I think so, too. Even people who understand what federation is and why it’s good are still affected by network effect; “it’s federated” might weight a lot for them, but it is not a perfect shield.
Even though there is some network effect just in terms of there being much less content on the threadiverse than Reddit, I do feel like this is something we’re somewhat shielded from. For the most part, we’re not here to follow specific people: my friends aren’t on Lemmy/Mbin, or maybe they are, I don’t actually know or care. I have a Mastodon, but a lot of the people I’d theoretically be interested to follow are still on Twitter, or BlueSky, or Threads or something. It’s not enough of a pull factor to make me join any of those, but it’s probably why I barely use Mastodon.
Instead of “shielded” I think that a more accurate word would be that we have a “buffer”. The network effect still applies to us, as much as it does in the microblogging side of the Fediverse; it’s just indirectly (more people → more content → more people), in a way that content produced here in the past still might attract users in the future.
At least bluesky has bridges