Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump
Bluesky Becoming New Social Media Sensation As Millions Of Americans Snub X Over Musk's Support To Trump
After Trump's 2024 victory, millions of users abandoned Musk's X (formerly Twitter), seeking alternatives like Jack Dorsey's Bluesky. The migration highlights growing dissatisfaction with X's platform, driving a surge in Bluesky's popularity.
I'd be a lot happier if Mastodon were seeing 1 million new users a day right now, but I'll take what I can get. Any dent in Twitter's user base is good. Here's hoping that experiencing "the Fediverse with training wheels" over at Bluesky will lead to people moving to Mastodon sooner rather than later.
It will not. You have to teach people what federation is while also having an enticing platform. I haven't seen anyone do that yet. Like Henry Ford said, the masses will just want a faster horse.
Let's pretend like the fediverse is a car. We're asking people who've never seen a car, and are used to horses, to select the parts and put it together with no manual. But, unless there's heavy provocation people will not switch from what they're familiar with.
This was the Reddit API changes for me and many on here. Yet due to Lemmy's adolescence at the time many didn't see a good enough platform to migrate to.
I consider myself quite literate with tech, but when I tried Mastodon years ago I couldn't even figure out how to sign up. They didn't explain what a server was, what federation is, or why I was unable to login after making an account. And they still do a terrible job at it. Your average person gets confused and gives up.
If I knew anything about development I'd throw together an app that'd walk you through the sign up process. It's such an easy thing to fix.
I'm going to use your car analogy, but tweak it.
People are looking to sell their car and buy a new one. One car acts like their old car; it has automatic transmission and there is a network of mechanics to take the car to in case something breaks.
The other car has a manual transmission. The car requires regular maintenance to do done by the owner like weekly tuning of the timing belt. There aren't mechanics, but car clubs where people will give you advice on how to fix your car.
I can't imagine how much you must have suffered choosing an email client. 🙄
It's been my experience that people who couldn't figure out how to join Mastodon are the same people that get so used to doing things one way, that when you introduce a different way, they fall apart. Regardless if they've done virtually the same thing with different services.
Mastodon isn't difficult to sign up for and use. FFS there are people of all ages and tech experiences who figured it out easily. I've seen grandmas who only ever used Facebook figure out Mastodon and teens who failed english figure it out. It's not rocket science. It's just not what you are used to when signing up for similar services.
in other "too fucking late" news, google searches for "what is fascism" spikes after election
Just like how the amount of searches for "What is the EU and what does it do" rose massively after Brexit by all the morons who voted 'leave' before actually knowing what it was.
It’s pretty funny, actually, from an I told you so stance.
I'm glad we're moving on, but the damage is done.
The xitter takeover to me seemed entirely planned to help suppress media for this election and it worked. It helped muddy the waters even more.
I am totally fine with all the normies moving from Twitter to Bluesky.
From the arms of one corporation into the next, at least this one isn't as evil.
I am very much fine with the Fediverse being a slowly growing, more niche, and thus more selective social media / internet stuff landscape.
If people were actually interested in communicating in a way that is not reliant on or generating profit for a corporation, in a way that is fundamentally more egalitarian...
... They'd either figure it out, or not.
Saves me a whole lot of time when determining who actually cares about such things, vs who doesn't, but thinks they do.
Fascists need to be held accountable.
There sure is a suspicious push for Bluesky on Lemmy as of late. Interesting.
Why does anyone care what platform others use? They can both burn to the ground for all I care.
Strikes me as ironic how the butterfly logo maps right over an 'X'.
But I can still see “🦋.Org” 😇