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Their most valid criticism of Bluesky is essentially that they don't understand it (they quite clearly haven't tried it, but feel validated in sharing their opinion anyways). I'll share two reasons why Mastodon is not "the Only Good Choice", as someone who hosted multiple Pleroma instances for myself and others, for years. - Where do you sign up? The fact that if anyone asks this question for Mastodon, they are almos…
Don't misgender Tim Bray.
Their most valid criticism of Bluesky is essentially that they don't understand it (they quite clearly haven't tried it, but feel validated in sharing their opinion anyways). I'll share two reasons why Mastodon is not "the Only Good Choice", as someone who hosted multiple Pleroma instances for myself and others, for years. - Where do you sign up? The fact that if anyone asks this question for Mastodon, they are almos…
>they Don't misgender Tim Bray.
Their most valid criticism of Bluesky is essentially that they don't understand it (they quite clearly haven't tried it, but feel validated in sharing their opinion anyways). I'll share two reasons why Mastodon is not "the Only Good Choice", as someone who hosted multiple Pleroma instances for myself and others, for years. - Where do you sign up? The fact that if anyone asks this question for Mastodon, they are almos…
There's no money in online brands anymore anyway. Who cares if Bluesky, or any other platform, goes south? Just move on to the next thing. Have 2 things at once. Don't use any thing. These platforms don't own you.
The article would've been more powerful if it focused on ActivityPub rather than presenting Mastodon as the only option. The whole benefit of having a common protocol is precisely that Mastodon isn't the only option. We have Pixelfed, Lemmy, PeerTube, Friendica, BookWyrm, Funkwhale, Pleroma, and so on. All of these platforms interoperate which means growth on any one of them grows the fediverse as a whole. This is th…
The article would've been more powerful if it focused on ActivityPub rather than presenting Mastodon as the only option. The whole benefit of having a common protocol is precisely that Mastodon isn't the only option. We have Pixelfed, Lemmy, PeerTube, Friendica, BookWyrm, Funkwhale, Pleroma, and so on. All of these platforms interoperate which means growth on any one of them grows the fediverse as a whole. This is th…
I know exactly zero people using any ActivityPub service.