Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms
A photograph of a short-eared owl mid-flight was the last Instagram post biology professor Carl Bergstrom shared before announcing his departure from the platform Jan. 10.
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Why switch to BlueSky if you have Mastodon...
Cause the name is hard to remember.. I was trying to yesterday and the closest I could get is megatron and megalodon
The name should have been MinBB (Mastadon is not Blue Bird).
It's a big elephant and you send "Toots!".
How do you confused that with a cynical robot and a giant shark? You'd post "Quips!" or "Bites!". Wouldn't work at all. 🙄
"Bites" is so cool...
I tried masterdon, mostertant (I don’t know what that one is) and eventually needed to look up the name from an E-Mail…
Why switch to Mastodon when there is Misskey?
Why use Misskey when there is Hubzilla?
I’ve yet to find a multi language or English speaking misskey it appears they’re all Japanese
You could spin one up this evening if you wanted. Or go use catodon.social.
That's not the point. The point is, there are reasons Mastodon is being rejected, just like there are reasons you seemingly cannot pay people to use a Misskey-based or Hubzilla-based website.
It's not where the people are going, and the public or semi-public figures are going to follow the people.
Gotta try the Misskey forks for English
In a word, audience. I'd prefer it if everyone went with Mastodon, but the audience on BlueSky is orders of magnitude bigger. I cross post to both, but only because I don't trust BlueSky not to do exactly what Twitter and Meta have done eventually.
I think there's a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can't quite understand it myself.
Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn't help that "no algorithm" means "show first reply at the top" so quick replies can dominate comments.
The bit I don't understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can't quite believe that but I can't see why blue sky would be less annoying.
It's not that it's less annoying, it's that it was in the right place at the right time to capture sufficient network effect..
There's plenty of people on masto saying they have accounts on both but prefer bsky due to difficulty managing replies.
As I say I don't really understand it but it's a real thing big accounts experience.
Guess why? /s For real, people, some of you live in a bubble...
These who waited until the X take over to move away are simply following trends.