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Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

If there are these roadblack to you as a profficient computer toucher then I think it's safe to say this is system is already doomed to cultural irrelevance, at best just another one of our private clubhouse nerdtoys, sad !

Hopefully this defeat in the face of bluesky shocks the dev out of their uncompromising complacency and start fighting FOR the users

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's entirely possible that my timing was just bad for Mastodon and good for Lemmy. The fact that I could jump on Boost and have an extremely familiar experience was a big plus. Bluesky was more similar in terms of migration experience to Lemmy than Mastodon was.

    The other issue is that in a forum site you follow topics, where on a microblog site you follow people. The topics are here on Lemmy (to some extent), even if the people aren't, but I don't really care about the individual contributors as much. The people I wanted to follow for microblogging went to Bluesky, and that matters a lot more there.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your initial post and response here describe my position as well.

    Simply put, to follow individuals, you have to be where those individuals are. On Lemmy here in looking for topics and discussion, those are much easier to decentralize.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, on reflection, I think that's the crux of it. There were some users from a more tight knit subreddit that I got to know well, but we all moved to discord a few years back. I miss some of the more active niche subreddits, but otherwise Lemmy replaced it very easily.

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