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What’s the difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Misskey? (lemmy.autism.place)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Like I said in my comment tho. When I downloaded the app it automatically chose for me. I just made an account there and boom.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    So you didn’t get the choice at all? I guess people who sign up this way are going to be really confused why they can’t follow some accounts their friends can.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Better than no one having the ability to follow that person because a centrally controlled social media banned them.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    But worse than anyone being able to follow that person because they’re using a platform where moderation is separate from identity, as in AtProto.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You are misrepresenting it. You would still run into this issue. Moderation being separate doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You will still not be able to follow someone your friends follow because your moderation service banned then.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    You can choose a different moderation service. That’s the point.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    You can choose. But you don't have to.

    The official Mastodon app has a box where you can pick one out of several hard-coded instances. It defaults to mastodon.social. You can pick a different instance if you want to. But you can also ignore it, scroll past it and let yourself be conveniently railroaded to mastodon.social without even knowing what an instance is.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Is that helpful though? Isn't that the same as everyone registering at Lemmy.world?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    If you've never in your live chosen anything that has to do with IT, if all you know is centralised, monolithic silos, then you can't be expected to first choose one out of literal dozens of microblogging projects in the Fediverse and then one out of dozens, hundreds or thousands of instances.

    The Fediverse would be a whole lot smaller if not all newbies who didn't come from Reddit were railroaded hard to mastodon.social. Oh, and Lemmy would be a whole lot smaller without Redditors having been railroaded first to lemmy.ml and now to lemmy.world.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel with mastodon it's different because instances don't host communities to subscribe to. Just people to follow

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