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Why not just use mastodon? Why is this better in any way? Twitter was already going to shit before Elon accelerated it.
- At least in my own bubble, many did switch to Mastodon. Those that didn't are looking at other options, because the whole federation idea and things like home instances didn't appeal to them or were simply too complicated (they want a service that at least hides its decentralized nature).
  
  I don't get why people dislike federation

Like the joke of old:
Internet Explorer: the best browser for downloading other browsers

There's an earlier version of this Fediverse Tree diagram where everything is more carefully on branches and the sky is... Blue. Bluesky. Bluesky is very much a response to the Fediverse. As a replacement. As a more popular and more important service.
- Don't quite get why Wordpress is anywhere near this. Isnt this a website solution?
  
  Their blogs just got integrated fairly recently with the fediverse.

Let's give the Twitter guy another chance, I mean we all loved his platform sooo much before Musk, right? ...
- Yeah, that's what bothers me. Feels like people romanticize pre-Musk Twitter, when in reality, its always just been complete garbage. Musk's Twitter is certainly worse in some ways, though that isn't saying a lot.
  Overall, Twitter just sucks. Use other platforms where possible.
  
  Yea, I have my issues with Lemmy too ever since the Israel/Palestina conflict got violent again so my by far favorite and most used is Mastodon, to me that feels like a supirior Microblogging site that actually dose things different and doesn't just try to reimplement Twitter!

What's with Lemmy users doing free advertising for corporate social media like this? You're already here, so you should know better, right?
- I mean, yeah, I'm on Lemmy and lots of other sites in the Fediverse, but why would that make me "know better"? Is my account supposed to give me some profound insight that sets me apart from the plebs on other sites? What I begin to know unfortunately is that the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular would be much more popular if it wasn't so full of self-absorbed comments like this. The sole point of this post was to share something I found interesting that day, but if the mere mention of services that aren't Lemmy provokes these kinds of comments, then I fear Lemmy will never make it out of obscurity. JFC
  
  No, having an account won't give you insight, but what I'm getting at is that most of us are here to get away from the glaring flaws of corporate social media. Obviously I want as many people as possible to join the Fediverse, and I don't see how advocating for or at the very least normalizing more the exact kind of corporate-controlled platforms that drove most of us here is going to help that.

It's dead lets move on to intresting things
- Twitter or Bluesky? It's both actually and you can add threads to that list as well.
  
  Neither, a lot of celebrities, companies and media outlets are in Mastodon. A lot of artists are moving to BlueSky.

use mastadon or nostr, they are actually decentralized. Bluesky is just twitter 2.0 with the same broken incentives and the same broken business model.

I find it funny how the only problem people see with Twitter is that the wrong oligarch owns it. The real issue is with reliance on privately owned social spaces. Corporations shouldn't be in charge of how people communicate with each other.

Competition is great and all, but Mastodon already exists.
- Yeah honestly, let's have competition between Mastodon servers instead. My current favorite is dice.camp for tabletop fans.

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