PS this is what I mean about the MSM and tech press jumping on the Bluesky hype bubble. It's complete with really shitty clickbait headlines like "Bluesky's best shot at success is to embrace shitposting" or "'BlueSky' wants to market itself as a 'Musk-free' space, says CEO". I can almost see the alien bat baby on the cover of Weekly World News supermarket tabloids when reading these search results LOL. Honestly this feels like an episode of the HBO show Silicon Valley almost at this point. #bluesky #msm #technews
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 Yes. I'd even put it another way: It's not that Mastodon has the sexiest marketing strategy - it seems to be the only federated software that actually has _any_ kind of marketing strategy that deserves this name (as in "trying to find a particular target group", "trying to figure out how to reach that target group" and "trying to build something that works as good as it possibly can for that target group"). I see why this is the case for Mastodon, but I lack ideas how to do the same for other (technically superior) platforms... .
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •@Hank G ☑️ I think this consistency thing is important and chronically underrated or downplayed by the open community to be honest. This is what non-tech users, most likely, will simply expect, and ... most of the reasons not to strive for that consistency seem disputable. At least to me. 🙃
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •@Hank G ☑️ True. But this also gets amplified by a community that at least recently seems much more eager to roll new greenfield solutions than to make existing things better. Not a way to fight fragmentation, in general. 😔
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •@anubis2814 Yes. 😔 (Even for notifications, using mail messages + IMAP push in my mail client managed to fixed that.) What's really a tad messy however in the browser is following links to other profiles and interacting with these - which in most cases will get you to some Mastodon/Friendica/Misskey/Diaspora public profile on a remote instance where you aren't logged in and can't interact with in a meaningful way in the browser. There are some addins to fix that but they seem to work only in desktop browsers and mostly only with Mastodon.
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in reply to Hank G ☑️ • • •It’s a failure of tech media to recognize anything outside their bubble.
Sure there are problems with the fediverse but a lot of that is due the the funding stream. Some people want free and easy without recognising servers cost money and skill to administer. Free requires a wealthy benefactor with personal motivations for providing services and they will want censorship privileges.
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