I’m on both and I find Mastodon to be a better experience. BlueSky just feels like Twitter Lite. I’ve seen people begging for followers and getting the same spam follows from nonsense gimmick accounts.
I’m on both and I find Mastodon to be a better experience. BlueSky just feels like Twitter Lite. I’ve seen people begging for followers and getting the same spam follows from nonsense gimmick accounts.
I have both but drifted away from Mastodon. It seems to lack the anarchic wild humour I want. Plus the culture of excessive boosting was too much and just meant my timeline was full of posts from people I don’t follow because they’d been boosted by the people I do follow. I follow folks because I want to hear what they have to say, not what the people they follow have to say.
Also all the servers had too strict rules. Having to post content-warnings if you mention food or other innocuous stuff.
I far prefer Bluesky. It’s a lot more liberal and far more more chill. Plus there’s lots of nonsense that keeps things fun. The feeds are a great way to find new people (you don’t need to beg for followers, just find people you dig and things will grow organically anyway). It takes the good things about Mastodon (decentralisation and open) and the parts of Twitter that were fun (people over brands, weird humour). I hope it keeps growing and opens up to more people, but I don’t mind it taking its time while it stabilises and adds features.
Just FYI you can disable boosts on your feed with Mastodon.
phanopy is an interesting mastodon front end that groups boosts periodically into a side scrolling container. The effect is that your feed is a lot cleaner, but you still can look at boosts if you want to.
Interesting. I might give it a go, thanks.
Yeah I know, but it’s such an ‘all or nothing’ approach. I don’t dislike the idea of boosting. I like to be exposed to other people’s content. I just wish it wasn’t so constant. Kind of feels like people do 1 post of their own and then 10 boosts.