If I wasn't on Lemmy, I wouldn't even know about Mastodon. It's not really something you hear of outside of the fediverse, in my experience. Meanwhile, BlueSky is gaining traction and talked about everywhere. Most people don't care that it's not exactly decentralized. Most of the things the users on the fediverse care about are not things the average, not-very-tech-saavy person cares about.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Bluesky has a good new user experience, too. Even if you do know about Mastodon, making an account is like"Welcome - figure it out, lol"

I'd bet if they went the other way, they'd get significantly fewer people signing up for the service...Steam caters to both nerds and casuals alike

[–] Katzastrophe@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Mastodon is annoyingly gatekeepy too. They are super heavy on content warnings, and tend to not play nice when someone doesn't respect those unspoken rules.

Also, servers are much more likely to defederate with each other, due to what some perceive as "minor scuffles".

All in all I understand why people prefer Bluesky over Mastodon, it's simpler and the search function isn't borked to hell and back either. Blocking is also incredibly effective on Bluesky, if you block someone neither you nor they will ever see each other's content again.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago

Even my parents know what blue sky is. This is from the people that were concerned that my emails wouldn't be able to find me when I moved house. Because "how would they know which house to go to now?"

If even they've heard of the platform, it's reached the mass market.

[–] ahal@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 month ago

Bluesky has 20x the user base (and the gap is growing wider every day).

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I really enjoy Mastodon, but it seems to be too confusing with all the servers. I don’t know why, but maybe because people have been conditioned by big tech to use centralised services. Especially Gen Z that grew up with this very big tech controlled internet.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Especially Gen Z that grew up with this very big tech controlled internet.

Yep, I only 3 person IRL who know and uses Forum or Reddit.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reddit is big tech these days.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe for the tech bubble.Most normies I know know that reddit exists but peimarily scroll on insta.

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They could just put their own instance alive,
not very hard for them, after they shown us what they can do,
They can make the changes happen, they showed us already.

And thoses who wants the feed, just have to subscribe.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Valve is already under fire for Nazi content in fringe parts of Steam Community (warranted or not); I don’t think they want to tackle responsibility of moderating another large social network.

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah ive seen this, unfortunatelly.
But they could really hire a community manager, a little team of coms, and an enginneer/technician, devoted to theirs socials services.

Thats a no cost for them,
Only benefits,