Unfortunately I've heard that a lot of people especially from academia are moving to bluesky. I've already started talking to some people I know about Mastodon. I hope the word spreads around.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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What's so special about bluesky that people are migrating there?
Old CEO of Twitter is involved.
Usually when something turns to shit, and the original CEO leaves to create a similar product, people follow. With games, software, even hardware.
BS is run by an independent team, and Jack recently deleted his BS account. He's promoting Nostr.
The invite only is helping build the science Community create their circles without misinformation being pushed or shouted at them.
Currently BS also has one server, so it's easier for most people to use it unlike mastodon instances. The custom feeds also help with community building.
Can't help but read the "BS"s as bullshit. The meaning didn't change much.
What I hear a lot is
- they are following other people there
- they don’t know how to use Mastodon and prefer Bluesky
- people on Mastodon keep telling them that they aren’t using it correctly
- reply guys on Mastodon who think they know everything better than the scientists
Guess that proves education can't teach you common sense.
Over time everything gets eaten up by open systems. If you are worried about lemmy or mastodon, don't be. Other open systems are the real concern. I'm rooting for nostr.
And Lemmy... stays the same
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mastodon, the federated microblogging platform, has been updated to version 4.2, which comes with massive improvements to search and the web interface, particularly for logged-out and first-time users.
One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others.
If you’re logged in to Twitter X, for example, you can click on a link to a tweet post, and you’ll be able to retweet it, reply, star it, whatever.
In order to engage, you had to copy the URL, go back to your instance, paste it into the search box, and then do whatever you were going to do (assuming you remember).
If you haven’t tried Mastodon yet — or you tried it and bounced off — you may be interested to know that 4.2 also improves the sign-up process in the web interface.
One last note: the search and web interface improvements only show up on servers that have installed version 4.2.
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So, can Mastodon 4.2 full-text search now see Lemmy posts and replies, even without hashtags? You can follow Lemmy communities and accounts from a Mdon account, that way the info is in the Mdon instance databases, but as the new search is "opt-in" only, do Lemmy communities or users have to set some flag to agree that our posts and replies are searchable ? This might help discoverability of Lemmy.
just in time for X to require paying to post