Especially when they promote and use it out of “moral motivation” to “fight against twitter/big tech”. You’re still using a platform owned by one company. They’re not really decentralized. There’s nothing stopping them to go down the same path twitter did. They’re funded by some questionable investors… Or, to quote something I recently read: “BlueSky is decentralized in the same way Total Energies is a green company.”
Fight big tech, yes, but know which platforms to use. And to counter all “but Mastodon etc. are boring”: the more people making the shift to the fediverse, the less boring it gets.
Edit to add: “shame” might be a heavy choice of words, but I don’t know another term haha (English not a first language and all that)
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Will Bluesky eventually enshittify? Probably.
Should people come to Mastodon instead? Of course.
Are there far bigger concerns at the moment? Absolutely.
Whatever Bluesky may or may not turn out to be, the important thing right now is to get people off of X, which we already know is a nazi controlled space. We don’t sabotage that goal by being high and mighty and telling people they’re not leaving to the right place.
One battle at a time.
I’d rather not create a system where people are constantly looking to create enemies. Like move on from Twitter and Facebook products by all means.
These systems aren’t home, and they aren’t our friends. You use them, and the individuals who would use and love Lemmy/Mastodon may not be the same people who enjoy bluesky(for now).
Don’t create out groups when you don’t need to, it just makes you look a little crazy to normies.
I get that! And it’s not really about creating enemies. More of a digital utopia where we see what’s the better option
Noble purpose, I feel it.
I do not know if deliberately or accidentally, but Bluesky seems to me to be very obviously positioned as a trap into which someone might fall into on their way from Twitter to Mastodon.
I mean, not everyone wants to go ‘Toot’ their status.
yeah they rather “Skeet” it
Jack Dorsey being one of the founders certainly has something to do with that, from a UX and UI point of view. Other than that, I don’t think is accidental. Also could be some marketing in place and certain “influencers” - of all sorts - pushing the platform online
I think it just feels more comfortable and “professional” also. I’ve talked with people for whom the jank associated with decentralized services is a total deal-breaker. They started a Mastodon account, but they picked the wrong instance and it got defederated because it had Nazis, they got annoyed and moved to a different instance, and then a few months later the admin for that instance evaporated without warning and rather than find a third one they turned their back on the whole endeavor as a hopeless kids-lemonade-stand waste of time.
Yeah most people after two bad experiences will just leave.
I’m not shaming anyone for their political beliefs. Ever.
It’s your business. If you attempt to make it my business, I’ll politely move on. If you feel the need to dictate to me your values, I’ll listen.
Do not take my listening as a form of agreement.
Are you an American? Then we have at least ONE thing in common. If the fact you are an American somehow makes you feel guilty or ashamed, maybe keep that to yourself.
Or share those feelings with like minded individuals.
Don’t assume the entire country agrees with that.
Break it down to the basics. Wish your fellow man/woman the best.
