HobbitFoot

Bluesky is new Twitter today.

There is nothing in its design to prevent it from becoming the X of tomorrow.

What’s my age, again?

I’m not 23. Nobody likes you when you’re 23.

Jeroba would default to .ml because the devs also admin the instance.

No, but a ton of people got AOL and Prodigy email addresses at first because they got an email address with their account.

And he has turned over Mastodon to a non-profit company which should be able to gain more resources to develop Mastodon.

I feel like Mastodon is the only one who did things right.

If the company dies, could the service continue?

Is Bluesky decentralized in any meaningful way? If the company dies, could the service live on?

It isn’t one person that people go onto a micro blogging service for, but a variety of people.

I don’t see the benefits but I see drama this would cause.

There is visible growth in posts and comments, which is good. However, I’ve also started seeing spam posts.

The problem with Nebula is that it is a paywall, something that is considered to be the most evil by some on Lemmy.

At the end of the day, content is paid for by getting everyone to pay, asking some to pay, advertising, or the creator is willing to do it for free as a hobby.

Even at its smallest form, a federated instance hosting a community likely needs more than one person acting as admin and mod. It may not be a for profit corporation, but there needs to be some kind of collective organization.

But at least the tech community is rather calm. I can have a different point of view with them and have a calm discussion with them.

Other groups aren’t like that.

Just because one is open doesn’t mean it should be used.

I also think that, compared to Reddit, there should be a more collaborative relationship between the mods and the admins because mods can choose their admins.

They should make their own instance if they can. The devs cited Star Trek.website as the model for communities like fandoms. It is also cleaner as the instance can make several subs which have different rules and content.

The problem is that it requires money, either by the admins or through donations.

I’m happy my sub got another comment on a post I made.

Lack of posts is one thing, but lack of comments is something else. People seem to be engaging with the posts with the like button, but that is all that is happening for now.

Yeah, you need people to post and comment to develop a community. I’ve got one community where I post five times a week, but I’ve only had two posts from other people and only one person commented on a post.