Honestly… Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I’ve talked to people who dispise twitter but won’t even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media
Yeah there’s this really weird group of people on Lemmy who are obsessed with thinking Twitter and blue sky are the exact same thing. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t get why people switch to Blue Sky or if they’re trying to purposely downplay the Nazi stuff on Twitter. I really can’t decide. Strongly leaning toward the latter.
You are on the Fediverse, a community centered primarily around free, open source, federated software watching every normie on the internet abandon one corpo playpen for another corpo playpen. Of course we’re upset about it.
I think Bluesky is currently better than twitter, I have absolutely no faith that it will remain that way.
Possible it’s that. Could just be they hate that general format of twitter/bluesky for social media. I lump them together because I’d never use either. No clue on the actual populaces on them.
Honestly… Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I’ve talked to people who dispise twitter but won’t even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
Yeah honestly they should make cars with one pedal. Two is just way to confusing for the average person.
One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.
Wait until I tell you about the cars with three pedals.
Hi I found a 4th pedal on the far left that doesn’t come back up when I press it, and my car makes funny smells now
My bicycle only has two pedals, but the seat smells funny too.
It’s probably a controversial opinion, but you could solve that problem by not sniffing bicycle seats.
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media
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Dementia.
Nah it said it timed out so I hit send again and jerboa sent it twice.
Yeah, thats a very common occurance on reddit because the platform is still held together by duct tape and prayers.
We’re not on reddit…
I know, thats why I mentioned it. Only time I saw it happen here.
Oh okay okay I get you now
Does anyone actually say this though? I don’t think anyone who joined Bluesky did so for federation - they joined because it’s not Twitter.
Yeah there’s this really weird group of people on Lemmy who are obsessed with thinking Twitter and blue sky are the exact same thing. I don’t know if it’s because they don’t get why people switch to Blue Sky or if they’re trying to purposely downplay the Nazi stuff on Twitter. I really can’t decide. Strongly leaning toward the latter.
You are on the Fediverse, a community centered primarily around free, open source, federated software watching every normie on the internet abandon one corpo playpen for another corpo playpen. Of course we’re upset about it.
I think Bluesky is currently better than twitter, I have absolutely no faith that it will remain that way.
Possible it’s that. Could just be they hate that general format of twitter/bluesky for social media. I lump them together because I’d never use either. No clue on the actual populaces on them.
You forgot, it’s also not mastodon.
I joined because it lets me use my domain as my username without having to host an instance.
Yeah that’s a really cool feature.
Perfection
Mastodon instances keep deactivating my accounts when I don’t post anything for two weeks, so yeah. Bsky it is.