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[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I think this is the crowd that tried Mastodon and then abandoned it when they realized it required a modicum of effort.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Honestly I can’t figure out how to find people I’m interested in… or maybe there isn’t much academic/buddhism stuff on there? :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Not a lot of interest sadly :/ Guess I will try to make the content

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You just search hashtags or set up a column so you have a feed giving you everything under a given hashtag, though it may be those communities are so niche there isn't much on the Mastodon instance you chose. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a specific instance for Buddhism itself, though, given that it's such a massive world religion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for sharing! :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

bluesky has a couple disability friendly features both mastodon and X don’t have.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

wtf kind of lame criticism of mastodon is this...there are constantly cute pictures of pets being posted on mastodon... and like anywhere else with humans these posts are very popular on mastodon.

I would say these posts are MORE popular on mastodon because without an algorithm cute animal photos are going to stick out as popular even more.

This is all nonsense anyways, Bluesky is considered "cooler" by techy types with a childlike awareness of history, politics and power because the tech is cooler when considered in the abstract.

Coincidently none of these technical details have the capacity to make bluesky a truly open and free place otherwise those investors would sue bluesky for purposefully and willfully not pursuing profit for shareholders. This won't stop certain types from pointing at pictures in the sand and reciting idle words thrown to the wind by the people in charge for now.

Bluesky exists as a legal instrument of profit, all else about bluesky is malleable and changeable and will eventually be bulldozed or undermined in the pursuit of profit for shareholders.

edit 2 this is a real human, and I was grumpy and while it was satisfying to point fingers it just makes me into the asshole so I removed that, but my broader point still stands

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being complicated will keep the Facebook moms, and my casually racist uncle away.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately a lot of our peers are also tech illiterate :(

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This man ran into the weirdos on Mastodon. I'm over there hanging out with people posting about ass-pennies and no one cries "content warning!" You're the one who decides who you follow and who follows you. If your hanging out with folks too sensitive for your liking, that's on you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I don't even know what Mastodon looks like and I don't know who the guy is, but I'm just assuming he's lying because it sounds like the usual "crazy pronoun libs" dog whistle.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

What being too dependent on the algorithm does to a mf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Seems the solution is just turning off replies

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I doubt this sort of attitude helps, too. Mastodon developers know at least some of its failings. Migrating to Bluesky is not effortless.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

That's probably fair. There's an abundance of smug assholery in the world right now. Apologies.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Whatever will they do without algorithms recommending their low effort posts to other users?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

This smug attitude is why the fediverse will stay niche. People get jobs from twitter and Bluesky showing their posts to people. Its why im on the platforms as an artist. But sure lets talk shit at everyone who doesnt want to post to the void on mastodon.

Also your feed is chronological by default on bluesky and you can stay chronological and enable some posts from your custom feeds to show in your chronological feed. Best of both worlds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of artists selling stuff on Mastodon but I don't think you can have a job as a mastodon influencer

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, I'm so tired of this "we on Mastodon are the Eloi and they on Bluesky are the Morlocks" type bs, that kind of hostility to regular users makes me not want to be on the Fediverse at all.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It’s a problem in the open source community as a whole. People ask for it to be a little easier because they’re not super skilled with tech and then the reaction is “if your so dumb you cant use this then maybe you shouldnt use it” or something to that extent

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Closely followed by surprisedpikachu.jpg when nobody's using it

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

People get what they deserve.