I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
I guess I’m glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn’t a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.
For me it’s not as bad as you described, people reply if i ask something or comment but i don’t know how to find the content and the people that I’d like to follow. I do follow some accounts that I like but still my feed feels dead :( I think Lemmy is easier because it’s a “subject/interest first” place whereas mastodon (or twitter) is “people first” place. I was never a twitter fan either so I actually don’t quite know what to expect from it neither.
I still keep visiting Mastodon after I get angry to Instagram though, which happens quite often (I know mastodon is a twitter alt and we have pixelfed for ig)
Making your posts available for search on Mastodon is opt-in through the use of hashtags. That makes it very difficult to find people to follow.
That’s true about Lemmy. It’s been a good replacement for both Reddit and Facebook groups, though smaller.
It’s been but it’s kind of starting to really reflect some of the crap you see on reddit. Thankfully not too much mod or monetization drama as of yet, but I’ve noticed we are really starting to draw in some wackadoo users from Reddit as of late. Just even over the past month, I’ve had to start blocking some subs, I’ve been starting to see waves of some pretty unhinged stuff. Thats what’s great about the fediverse, is it can grow and evolve. But that still doesn’t solve one of the biggest primary problems with social media, and that’s its public users, some of whom are just straight up people I don’t want to be near, even virtually.
I hear you. Even in places where everyone mostly agrees on politics there are still niches that are bizarre, offensive, cult-like or aggressive or individuals that turn every disagreement into a fight. I stumble upon them sometimes on all the new platforms. What can I say? We’re definitely not living in an echo chamber. Right-wingers are wrong about that one