Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
arstechnica.com
Bluesky now platform of choice for science community
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Ah yes, let's take absolute control over online discourse from one private, for-profit organization and give it to another. That'll fix everything!
While Bluesky seems [mostly] fine right now, it's not a long term solution. We need public online spaces that aren't owned or governed by any single entity. Or more appropriately - we need to improve the ones we already have and do whatever we can to bring people here.
Also, Bluesky has terrible algorithms and gives almost no control over your main page. I kept seeing exclusively political content from one specific side in my country (including some very obvious bots). Pressing 'Show less like this' on a few dozen posts every day produced no results over a few weeks. This ultimately led me to delete my account, as it made no sense to browse a platform that is actively showing me only the things that I don't want to see.
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Wafrn is an app that natively federates with Bluesky. It uses it's own PDS and Appview, and relies on Blacksky's Relay (which is operated independantly, not by Bluesky PBLLC). Wafrn also supports ActivityPub and federates with Mastodon instances without Bridging (as it's actually ActivityPub-first).
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Twitter-like social media wasn't really my style. Took me a couple years to sign up for Mastodon from when I first encountered it. Then another year to really find a small server I liked. But I really love it. What I love most is that it never expects me to check it frequently.
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I want to like it but I guess I haven't put the energy into it.
But I never liked twitter either.
I actually enjoy Bluesky more than either of them but still haven't opened it in at least a month or two.
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Never mind, I browse all and didn't realize the community I was in.
Sorry for bringing this negativity to your space.
I hope they learn their lesson in 5-10 years.-
lmao
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So why not Mastadon?
Having tried it: choosing an instance is too confusing for a typical user (especially as a minor bit of research suggests there's a risk your instance could disappear at any moment) and there's a culture of policing content and style amongst users that's quite offputting
In Germany mastodon is a real choice for the science community. There are some bigger organizations and universities hosting their own instances. Even the German government runs its own instance and some ministries do their public relations over them. For example @dlr@social.bund.de is the German NASA pendant. https://wisskomm.social/about is a dedicated instance for German science institutions.
I don’t think we really acknowledge how off putting the signup process is.
You need to choose a server. You do this by:
I recently moved to a new mastodon server and honestly I had like decision paralysis for a week trying to find one that was a decent compromise.
I understand why this would be more important on a microblogging service but I thought Mastodon already had am account migration feature?
I really want Mastodon to succeed, but it’s a ghost town.
Really? My feed is constantly full
It's the same with how we got Lemmy more active over the years...
lmfao
no, it isn't. not by a long shot. my feeds are bumpin' every day.
yes, you have to poke around to find people to follow so your chronological feed is populated. in that way it is like mid 2000s social media (read: thefacebook) before Zucc implemented the algorithm to shovel slop to the pigs.
Because social media isn't about community it's about showing off and showing out.
Have you tried using both?
Yes.