If you don't care much about follower counts, enjoy conversations at a more leisurely pace, and don't mind the learning curve of federated services, Mastodon and Pixelfed are great places to be.

But if you enjoy posting hot takes, going viral, and racking up thousands of likes and reposts, Bluesky might be a better fit.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with being part of communities on both networks. We don't need to turn this into a competition!

That's precisely why bridges between them are so important. Let's connect communities, not divide them.

#Mastodon #Pixelfed #Bluesky #Fediverse #ATmosphere #SocialMedia

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in reply to everton137
I agree. I don’t use any billionaire social stuff myself. However what others enjoy about Instagram, Facebook etc is their collection of friends. Those are next to impossible to transport to the Fediverse, because each of them claims the same excuse “why would I go there when my friends are here?”
in reply to everton137

@everton137 , Instagram and Twitter/X weren’t created by big techs. At first, both were great places to interact. Then, both were acquired by Meta and Elon Musk. You know what happened next.

We face the same risk with Bluesky. It also centralizes its user base and could be acquired at any moment by a big tech company. This wouldn’t happen with Fediverse platforms, thanks to federation. Thais is one of the reasons why this is a safer environment.

Maintaining bridges with Bluesky, contrary to what you say, actually keeps the community divided, since people won’t migrate from there to here. And at any moment, Bluesky could make it difficult to maintain those bridges, and the communities would once again become isolated. That’s what happened with Twitter. Both Friendica and Hubzilla used to communicate directly with Twitter, until the day they changed the API rules.

@Icanbob

in reply to Aracnus
@aracnus My “proposal” wouldn’t be to use AI to build a bridge to those billionaire systems. What is needed is an an intelligent agent that can scrape only friends content (not algorithm stuff and ads) and seamlessly cross post. In most jurisdictions it would be illegal for a human to create and publish such code. However how are they going to sue AI if it writes it?
in reply to Aracnus

@aracnus I think there are good people working to build a healthier ATmosphere. I'm aware of the risks, but I don't agree that bridges increase division.

I've been using the bridge and, more recently, a Eurosky account as well. I'm not very active there, but I miss some folks from Brazil who prefer Bluesky, as well as the discussions happening there.

Are there risks? Definitely. But I don't want to exclude people who don't feel welcome here or haven't adapted to the Fediverse's dynamics.

And there are initiatives working to mitigate those risks, such as the European Social:

blog.eza.link/political-commun…

@icanbob

in reply to everton137

@aracnus ah, I joined Twitter in 2007. I was working on the tentative of a decentralized social media platform at University of São Paulo, the Stoa project.

In 2011, I even suggest to some city councilor, in São Paulo, to have a official identi.ca instance for the city of São Paulo.

@icanbob

in reply to everton137
in reply to Aracnus

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