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 I agree with everything you’re saying. But I don’t think Mastadon can compete with the resources of Meta or the VC backing of Bluesky. I think Mastodon is 3 engineers? It is what it is
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@wonkothesane @o_simardcasanova Do a lot of fedi people WANT it to compete head to head? Because a whole bunch of us don’t want that future.
If my mastodon feed ever starts resembling the feed on Threads or Bluesky, then I’m moving on anyway.
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@rscottjones @wonkothesane Probably not, but if Mastodon can’t compete, it won’t have the chance to live up to its ambition to offer a different way to do social media
Offering this allegedly superior experience to only a very small fraction of the user base being the literal definition of elitism
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@o_simardcasanova @wonkothesane It can’t be a different way of doing social media if it does the same thing the others do.
It’s not elitist, literally anyone can participate and even run their own server.
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@rscottjones @wonkothesane I’m sorry but this is wishful thinking
As a start, the overwhelming majority of people don’t want and/or don’t know how to run their instance
And even if they wanted to, properly running an instance is actually very complicated. Trust me, I tried.
It’s not, never was, and will never be, a realistic answer
Once again, I’m sorry but yes, this is textbook elitism to suggest a solution the overwhelming majority of people can’t really use
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@o_simardcasanova @rscottjones @wonkothesane And it's also a fairly bad experience even if you can handle the complicated, because of how the underlying architecture works…
(Example: those likes/faves on those few comments in this thread that I made, I did by pressing the "…" button on each separate comment, then selecting "Copy link to post", switching to another tab, pasting the URL into the search, waiting a second and then pressing the like button…)
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@mackuba
Huh. I press the star button to like a post. Pretty easy, really. If I had to guess, I'd say you're making things unnecessarily complicated to support your argument.
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@dragonvalley @o_simardcasanova @rscottjones @wonkothesane Yes, because you're on an instance that has 2.6K users, I'm on an instance that has 1 user. This part of the thread was a response to a mention that anyone can run their own server, so I'm describing how it is to run your own server.
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@mackuba @dragonvalley @rscottjones @wonkothesane Look at you Kuba, inadvertently validating my decision to not host my own instance 😬
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