Strongly disagree. Bluesky is extremely American-centric and basically just a bulletin board of "hot takes". I find Mastodon much deeper, more engaging, and international. I'm glad I deleted my BS account and replaced it with Mastodon.

edit: However, I was never a Twitter user in the past

Would you mind elaborating why it's a bad fit? No shade to Lemmy, but if anything I feel like that would be a worse fit. People always talk about how the best part of Reddit was the niche subs, and a big issue here is that now instead of one small community you end up with 50 communities that all have one subscriber each. Also, there's a lot of reposting and cross posting to the same community on separate instances. Instances on what is functionally a more social network like mastodon make more sense, so you could for example have all players of a specific team on an instance just for that specific team, or government employees on a government instance. Make up and beauty influencers could for example be all on another instance, making their work easier to find.

I was never on any microblog sites though, so maybe I don't really understand them.

Mastodon moderation is also absolute garbage.

I mean, if it's that big a deal you can always roll up your own instance. Isn't Truth Social just a rebranded Mastodon fork?

I'm more annoyed by the search and the front page, which forces me to switch between channels in order to put together a feed. It's poorly integrated and difficult to navigate.

That's before you get to simply Networking Effect. The people I want to follow aren't on Mastodon, so I'm not going to be on Mastodon. As soon as they all jump over, I'll join them.

and mastodon just can't have the social network with how confusing it is to a normal user, just like lemmy.

Decentralized platforms will never take off as long as people talk about how it works, you just need a URL with a sign up function that works and an app you can install, log in to and it works. That's what a normal user wants.

I made a post about the unfortunate Ao3 data scrape that occurred a few weeks ago and got a good amount of boosts and likes.

I'm wasn't a frequent poster on non-fediverse social media sites anyway, so this was a new record for me lol. I actually like posting on the Fediverse.

Yeah. Its going downhill fast

What do you think about Linux Mint?

I noticed. I'm not having any of the problems that linux supposedly fixes.

No post I have ever made has generated more response than this one, which kindof reinforces my point

That was incredibly thoughtful of them, not gonna lie

Ew, ew, ew, fucking ew

For real; the second I saw "hugbox", I was like, "Hmm…."

Let me check yours real quick…….oh wow, what a surprise - everyone you disagree with is a fascist.

In reality that’s not how mastodon or Lemmy or any other fediverse place work though, especially moderation wise. Your instances mods only control content on that instance, and you’re still at the mercy of the tyrannical mods on other instances. With the much smaller population on them, there are already “default” communities about topics that if/when you’re banned from them by some wannabe dictator ex-Reddit mod there’s nothing you can do, just the same as it was on Reddit.

Privacy has been sold as one of the big benefits of the fediverse, like it or not. I just mentioned that it isn’t private at all.

Good moderation isn’t censorship, but let’s be real - good moderation by random volunteer internet users is rarely ever good moderation. Most of the time it’s just suppressing alternative viewpoints.

I just want Twitter without opinions I don’t agree with

Kurdish independence is the first that comes to mind.

Topics aren't banned, but certain sides opinions on topics are heavily moderated/censored.

That's a huge oversimplification. UX design and a careful selection of settings and features, for instance, have a big role in that regard. It's not what you prohibit but what you incentivize too.

Both are pretty heavily moderated.

Absolutely ABYSMAL branding and accessibility.

Social media relies, no matter how much we hate it and wish it weren't the case, on things being "new", "hot", and "FAST" while this service's name implies the absolute ANTITHESIS of what people need to disseminate information in real time: mastodons are frozen, dead, ancient, clumsy, and/or fossilized. And worse, that's how it feels to use, too.

An extinct lumbering beast from the ice age.

Also its name is a clumsy dactyllic meter full of dull woody phonemes that doesn't feel good to say. Its name lands with a dull wet thud. Mastodon's name is so forgettable that nobody i ever tried to tell about it can even REMEMBER it, and even my best friend for some reason imprinted its name as "WalrusChat" (which is SO much worse but silly with that it stuck) and she can't remember it any other way to this very day.

Gods, the mileage it could have done with just, JUST a better name. Two syllables with accent on the first just like Facebook Lemmy Twitter YouTube Snapchat Discord Ebay PayPal Google Apple Samsung TikTok WhatsApp Signal and LinkedIn. Even Pinterest and Instagram, in conversation I constantly hear people pronouncing them as pint-rest and truncating to In-sta.

If it were made of bright, sharp, tinny phonemes that POP on the two syllable meter it'd have been extra good. I would have liked Trunky. It's bouncy and playful and fun and it keeps the pachyderm symbolism so posts could still be called toots.

The problems extend to the interface experience too: Instead of liking and bookmarking there's only FAVORITING and that adds FRICTION because just because you like something doesn't mean it's your FAVORITE. Favorite implies permanence in an otherwise transient medium and people mistake it for BOOKMARKING which needs to be its own separate functionality. Instead people see posts they appreciate, go to like it, but then STOP and ask themselves "wait, I like this but is it really my 'FAVORITE'??? No, that's a bit too much..." And their minds have already moved on!

THIS IS WHY THERE IS SO MUCH LESS ENGAGEMENT EVEN ON MASSIVE INSTANCES WHERE THE CONTENT IS A FIRE HOSE

AND GUESS WHAT: LACK OF ENGAGEMENT IN A CONTENT DISSEMINATION SOCIAL MEDIA APP IS,
UH,
CHECKS NOTES
BAD, ACTUALLY!

They COULD have lent into the branding! For bookmarking, call it "remember" (because elephants never forget!) and their "like" analog could have been "trumpet" (like trumpeting praise) whereas "boost" should have JUST been called ReToot. But instead nothing feels right and it's clunky as SHIT.

And if all that isn't already BAD ENOUGH, Having created several profiles on several instances myself, the sheer disparity of content from instance to instance is VAST. You can't just go on mastodon and see the same things everyone else sees! AND THAT'S A BIG FUCKING PROBLEM! You can't just BE "on mastodon", you gotta also know WHERE ON MASTODON something is and follow it. AND MAYBE YOU FOLLOWED THE WRONG ONE ON THE WRONG INSTANCE FROM THE WRONG INSTANCE.

so much

FUCKING

BULLSHIT.

AND ITS NAME WASN'T EVEN ORIGINAL! SEARCH RESULTS COLLIDED WITH A METAL BAND OF THE SAME NAME FOR YYYYEEEEAAAARRRRSSSS!

that's why.