Mastodon is a different beast, due to discoverability issues. They were supposed to fix that, no sure how much progress they made on that front.
rglullis@communick.news
on 07 Mar 12:22
nextcollapse
It’s not interesting. It’s anecdotal at best and a bad coping strategy at worst.
Instead of calling sour grapes, just face reality: this ecosystem is doomed to failure and stunted growth unless people start showing up with real cash to support it.
We can not have both ways. If we hate VCs and we don’t want ad-infested, Surveillance Capitalism, we must ourselves pay what developers are worth. Otherwise they will just be playing around here, but collecting their nice paychecks from Big Tech.
I am here because I know that it has potential despite the prevailing culture, not thanks to it.
Nice job linking to the discussions, it really helps to make the case for my argument: community is not enough, and y’all need to start putting your money where your mouths are.
A colleage of mine working in the same field recently made a Bluesky post that I found interesting. The kinda stuff I'd share on a good day.
He got four likes and two shares - one of each came from me through Bridgy Fed. I very rarely get that little on Mastodon.
He has almost 800 followers there. I have less than 200 on Mastodon.
My takeaway is that Bluesky has this potential for posts to get pushed into every feed, but if they fall through the cracks of the algorithm they might go completely unnoticed. So you end up changing how you post in order to please the algorithm, losing yourself in the process.
Mastodon just feels chill to me. And I'm bridged, so I can always go viral on Bluesky anyway, I just won't be all that aware of it.
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Interestingly enough, I feel like Bluesky is losing traction, at least in my language. Quite popular accounts get less than 10 likes on their posts.
how does that compare to mastodon? I don’t use neither mastodon nor bluesky.
Mastodon is a different beast, due to discoverability issues. They were supposed to fix that, no sure how much progress they made on that front.
It’s not interesting. It’s anecdotal at best and a bad coping strategy at worst.
Instead of calling sour grapes, just face reality: this ecosystem is doomed to failure and stunted growth unless people start showing up with real cash to support it.
We can not have both ways. If we hate VCs and we don’t want ad-infested, Surveillance Capitalism, we must ourselves pay what developers are worth. Otherwise they will just be playing around here, but collecting their nice paychecks from Big Tech.
Dude, your concept of failure is my dream. I'm happy here.
There are dozens of us! Dozens, I say!
If you think this ecosystem is doomed, why are you still here?
For people reading this, previous similar discussions
You got banned from 7 days from this community due to insults: lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=20289
I am here because I know that it has potential despite the prevailing culture, not thanks to it.
Nice job linking to the discussions, it really helps to make the case for my argument: community is not enough, and y’all need to start putting your money where your mouths are.
A colleage of mine working in the same field recently made a Bluesky post that I found interesting. The kinda stuff I'd share on a good day.
He got four likes and two shares - one of each came from me through Bridgy Fed. I very rarely get that little on Mastodon.
He has almost 800 followers there. I have less than 200 on Mastodon.
My takeaway is that Bluesky has this potential for posts to get pushed into every feed, but if they fall through the cracks of the algorithm they might go completely unnoticed. So you end up changing how you post in order to please the algorithm, losing yourself in the process.
Mastodon just feels chill to me. And I'm bridged, so I can always go viral on Bluesky anyway, I just won't be all that aware of it.
Yeah, if you’re chasing likes for clout, that’s true. Use it as an actual social network and that won’t matter.
My Mastodon instance disappeared a few weeks ago, so I’m getting a kick out of this post.