Now that #Brazil has banned Xitter, where are Brazilian people going?
Based on Google Trends, they’re mostly interested in #Bluesky, and to a (much) lesser extent, in #Threads
[#]Mastodon is nowhere to be found, which should immensely worry pro-Fedi people
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[#]Mastodon has been losing users for a long time
Many of us warned that the app was too complicated, the culture too toxic, the economic model not strong enough to sustain a fast-paced development
In just a few months, #Bluesky shipped DMs, major moderation features, third-party moderation, and will soon ship video
The last major Mastodon update was 11 months ago. An eternity.
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It pains me to see #Mastodon in such a dire state
Meta is building and growing #Threads quickly, and Mastodon can only acts as a powerful counterweight if the platform itself is in good shape
Today, it is not
It’s not catastrophic, but the writing is on the wall
And what’s virtually certain is that Mastodon has definitely missed the unique window that Elon Musk opened when he bought Twitter
Such a window won’t reopen soon, and possibly will never happen again
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All of this should be a wake up call for #Mastodon as a community
I’m not super optimistic to be honest, which is why I’ve basically deserted the platform and I’m spending my time on #Bluesky these days
The silver lining of today’s events in Brazil is that even if Mastodon is left out of the equation, another open platform is benefiting from this mess
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@o_simardcasanova
Bluesky is only theoretically decentralized. Same with Threads. They both have an extremely simple onboarding process because of this. Get back to me when it's a fair competition.
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@wjmaggos This is completely false, Bluesky is already widely decentralized
Get back to me when you will have your basic facts straight
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@o_simardcasanova
maybe I'm wrong then. how are these Brazilians joining up?
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@wjmaggos Not "maybe", you absolutely are
The overwhelming majority of algorithmic feeds aren’t run by Bluesky, there exists dozens of moderation labelers, and thousands of users already self-host their PDSes
Sure, there’s no alternative relays or AppViews, but the underlying protocol has only been capable of accepting federation for six months
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@o_simardcasanova
I understand but percentage wise, it's extremely centralized. just like if mastodon decided to do something shitty, it would really hurt the overall fedi and AP. except bluesky has much more influence over the AT protocol. similarly, defaulting everybody to mastodon dot social helped our onboarding process. it's a trade-off for growth vs the larger goal of empowering users and you're being a bit disingenuous not acknowledging this.
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@wjmaggos@liberal.city @o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social last I checked it was hundreds of users on their own PDSes and even if it is now a few thousand this is in contrast to millions on that are on the Bluesky-hosted ones...
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@vetehinen @wjmaggos Self-hosted PDSes is kind of new and is still a work in progress
Bluesky plans to make much easier to self-host, which should increase usage
But most people won’t self-host, mostly because they don’t care
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