There's something about Bluesky I just don't quite like. I have an account, sometimes (rarely) I use it. But for example today I wanted to share a short video with a friend. I send him the link - "only logged in users can see this post (OP himself set this option)" ok, weird but let me download the vid and send him - "nope can't do that"

They literally added some frontend bullshit to not allow you to download a freaking video. When you Inspect it with developer tools it shows a button... If you try saving it with right clicking it will save the thumbnail instead... I know there are probably easy-ish workarounds but this sort of instagram closedness pisses me off.

Meanwhile in Mastodon I right click and save video as....

I also don't like the underlying complexity of how decentralization is supposed to work there. That being said, if the choice is between twitter, threads or bluesky, please use bluesky.

I prefer Mastodon, though.

I recently discovered wafrn, which is fediverse software that lets you directly interact with both the Fediverse and Bluesky.

Also it has lots of fun easter eggs like this button in the settings

I tried Bluesky. I noticed two overwhelming trends that led to my hasty departure:

Wishful thinking left-wing politics. Encouraging people to pretend like how things ought to be is how things are, and to act accordingly. This is lazy and disastrous thinking, both because it overlooks the real systemic change that needs to happen to get to where you want to be. Though, in fairness, there is quite a bit of this on Lemmy too.

Extremely popular poster who spent their entire careers making the Trump presidency a certainly trying to back pedal on Trump specifically. No mention of their awful ideas they still keep and spread that lead to such an outcome. Lots of thumbs up and people saying "see, they get it" while also not connecting the dots, as if Project 2025 fell from the sky and wasn't the product of decades of effort.

It's an idiot convention.

Mastodon.

The brutal truth of social networks: people don’t stay for protocols, decentralization, or good intentions. They stay because everyone else is there. Building better infrastructure is impressive. Building a habit people refuse to leave is harder.

could be because dont allow post edits or dislikes