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.

  • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    9 个月前

    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.

      • ragica@lemmy.ml
        7·
        9 个月前

        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.

      • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 个月前

        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.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    12·
    9 个月前

    I self-host Mastodon. I have a Bluesky account I don’t use actively.

    I don’t really care about new social networks that don’t federate, and right now Bluesky doesn’t federate. I might become more interested when it does.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 个月前

    I’ve tried both. I’m not a big user of Mastodon, but I much prefer it to BlueSky. I really appreciate having a feed based on my interests rather than specific people. So I guess it depends on what you want to use them for, because BlueSky is much more about following specific people, like Twitter.

  • PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 个月前

    BlueSky has weird cliques. It’s hard to find people who maybe left Twitter and just want to keep posting their typical stuff. It’s a lot of inside jokes that I don’t get so I haven’t really stayed active.

    I like Mastodon a lot more.

  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today
    3·
    9 个月前

    I’ve been wanting to try bluesky but I haven’t found anyone who uses it to get an invite from yet.

    Edit: thanks kind stranger!

  • win95@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    9 个月前

    I have both, but I’m inactive on mastodon since my Twitter mutuals decided bluesky was the way to go. Frustrating.

  • WorseDoughnut 🍩@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    9 个月前

    On both, but I haven’t bothered to touch mastodon in a while.

    I can appreciate some of the ideas that draw people into Mastoson but for me it’s just super boring though, everyone that I followed on Twitter who moved over is still great to see content from, but the overall vibe of both the instance I’m on and the global federated feed is either just the same stuff for a whole day and a half or infinite small un-curated posts. It doesn’t have that twitter “feel” of stuff I want to see and stuff I might want to see.

    Bluesky on the other hand has a lot of user-generated “feeds” that lets me try out some different options, many of which offer exactly what I miss about Twitter. Still no magic algorithms as smart as Twitter’s was / is, but the user-generated stuff does a good job most of the time in showing me content from accounts I follow, accounts that they interact with frequently, and content that is similar to what I follow and interact with. It’s a lot more satisfying and useful to scroll down for a bit than on Mastodon.