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@Kovukono Sir, this is the Fediverse, we use Mastodon [pawb.fun] here.
Yeah, I’m guessing that’s why it’s sitting at -7 and going down for a free giveaway. I know there’s some contention between people invested in specific federation protocols, but I wasn’t expecting this to garner that response.
@Kovukono I mean another big reason is that many people here highly value open source and decentralization and while Bluesky promises to deliver that decentralization via AT Proto, currently they haven't done that. There aren't really any other instances and the main one doesn't have AT Proto Federation enabled (so even if you set up your own it's no use), so at the moment Bluesky is no different from a centralized platform, just with the promise of being decentralized in the future.
Mastodon on the other hand is decentralized right now, with many many servers to choose from, it's not a future promise of future decentralization, it is decentralized already. It also doesn't carry the negative connotation that Invite-only platforms carry, which is promotion by way of FOMO (fear of missing out), yeah some instances are invite-only but there are other instances people can join and still interact with everyone else due to federation.
I get that people aren’t happy with Bluesky’s invite-only approach, or that they haven’t turned on federation yet. I’m not claiming it’s even a great platform; hell, they don’t even have support for gifs or private messages yet. I just had a code, and was hoping I’d brighten someone’s day by a chance to get it. Just seems Lemmy would rather have it buried.
@Kovukono Yeah it actually kind of sucks that people were so hostile towards it, honestly my first comment was more meant to be a joke (especially since I'm replying on Mastodon), but I guess it also wasn't as much of a joke as I thought considering how many people tried to bury the post.