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X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 day ago (45 children)

Yesterday I read on mastodon that leaving Twitter to go to Bluesky is like quitting smoking to start vaping. Changing a centralized place that lives off your data for another one. Right now Bluesky does not have hate speech like Twitter just because it does not suit the current accounts of its shareholders

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Twitter started dying when they closed the API

Bluesky’s is perfectly operational

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Things never change, companies never break promises, shareholders never hold power over decision, people can not be bought

Those would all have to be true in order for anyone to have a reason to put trust into Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Ok, if for you the API is the most important thing, go ahead, I'm worried about more companies doing "things" with my data, everyone has their priorities.

P.S. Unlike in BlueSky in Mastodon you can be 100% sure that the API will never be closed, in Bluesky it will depend on variable business interests

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mastodon has protocol level issues that prevent it from being fully mainstream though.

As long as people move out of Twitter, I count it as a win. Especially when we get official government stuff out of there - which won’t happen for the US, but the rest of us have a chance

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I will count it as a victory when my government's communication channels with me are not private property. A government-owned Mastodon server for official accounts would be logical (the EU already has it even though it barely uses it)

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