threads felt the same, its also dead
Hopefully some other ATProto implementor will come along with a better idea.
It is interesting to me that e.g. Adobe left Bluesky after relatively minor pushback, but they stay on X despite the much larger problems associated with that platform.
Genuinely interested. I don't get why people would use X and not Bluesky.
“I had 10k followers on X but only 2k on Bluesky” is the kind of refrain I hear a lot. Even if they get more “organic” engagement in replies from human beings.
Also, there are no “private” accounts or “private” DMs on Bluesky. (That this only exists on X in name only does not phase them.)
The actual qualities of the product are almost irrelevant if you have the current user base; it takes very a lot to get even a sizable minority of people to actively use social media that doesn't have that kind of established dominance in the face of social media that does, and it has to be sustained.
That's why most new successful social media sites (even though over time they may converge on feature sets) become successful by dominating some particular new media or interaction style not supported well on existing social media—it effectively lets them operate as if there was no dominant competitor, as an add-on rather than replacement for existing dominant social media. But Bluesky doesn't have that.
It's ultimately their choice to make. The current choice means they can never take off and they automatically let X win.
Who am I to tell them what to do?
It must be about 2 years ago when they published their community guideline rules and it's trivial to see how they have no chance of success.
There's no such thing in Mastodon. Each server can choose their own rules.
Gab is a mastodon fork that is isolated from mastodon. What community guidelines did Gab violate?
Just because i predicted the guidelines would be damaging to their platform and now they are declining that these arent necessarily linked.
Using OP website, I can see all top accounts seem to be democrats. No republicans or conservatives?
When there is such an imbalance, the platform is behind it. If you actively ban entire ideological groups on a social platform, you're never going to be successful. What rule are these entire ideological groups violating?
On various speedruns by conservatives that ive watched, they got banned for 'being disrespectful' or 'abuse' obviously a ban speedrun will typically run into the vague rules the most.
Lets look at the rule.
Treat others with respect. For example, no: Harassment or abuse directed at a specific person or group,
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7qqkq2zdwq4j5jingukgtuky/po...
"MAGA cultists" or "hateful cockroaches" is abusive towards a group. I would expect this post to violate bluesky rules. Yet not only allowed, well received with 7.4k likes.
If a republican went on bluesky and called democrats cultists and cockroaches. How fast would they be banned?
