Bluesky is succeeding in growing its user base while Mastodon seems to be stagnating. I think it’s because Bluesky is focusing on usability and making a good product before going all in on decentralization. Most normies don’t care about decentralization (at least until Elon Musk buys your platform and destroys it with no way for you to e…
Bluesky is succeeding in growing its user base while Mastodon seems to be stagnating. I think it’s because Bluesky is focusing on usability and making a good product before going all in on decentralization. Most normies don’t care about decentralization (at least until Elon Musk buys your platform and destroys it with no way for you to exit). I just hope that doesn’t happen to Bluesky. It won’t happen to Mastodon because it is truly decentralized, but it may start shedding users to a more feature friendly network.
I do get the sense that there is a willingness to learn and adapt on both sides. I don't know if Bluesky will ever try and properly bridge to the fediverse, but I do think they have to find a way to incentivize the addition of new servers and services to join the AT Protocol. If not, their costs are going to keep mounting and pressure to commercialize is going to get intense.
Either way, actual competition and collaboration amongst the upstart networks is, imo, going to do everyone a lot of good.
Bluesky is succeeding in growing its user base while Mastodon seems to be stagnating. I think it’s because Bluesky is focusing on usability and making a good product before going all in on decentralization. Most normies don’t care about decentralization (at least until Elon Musk buys your platform and destroys it with no way for you to exit). I just hope that doesn’t happen to Bluesky. It won’t happen to Mastodon because it is truly decentralized, but it may start shedding users to a more feature friendly network.
I do get the sense that there is a willingness to learn and adapt on both sides. I don't know if Bluesky will ever try and properly bridge to the fediverse, but I do think they have to find a way to incentivize the addition of new servers and services to join the AT Protocol. If not, their costs are going to keep mounting and pressure to commercialize is going to get intense.
Either way, actual competition and collaboration amongst the upstart networks is, imo, going to do everyone a lot of good.