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Why I ditched Twitter for Bluesky - and hope you will, too! (gregpak.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I tried Threads and it was horrible. Honestly not using Mastodon that much. But maybe that format is just not my thing.

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

See the thing is........you have to microblog like a crazed hobo yelling things into the void. It doesn't need to make sense. It's better if it DOESN'T make sense.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup, I've tried Twitter and hated it. I remember when Mastodon launched, and it was described as "federated Facebook" IIRC, and now people are claiming that it's more like "federated Twitter." I hate both Facebook and Twitter, so I use neither.

So honestly, I don't really care about Twitter/X vs BlueSky vs Mastodon, because I don't want to use any of them. Reddit/Lemmy is a much more interesting format to me TBH.

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

I really need local interest groups. For example a local skating community or local hardware selling group - that’s only Facebook today unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dang. Does meetup work? I know it's pretty decent for tech meetups, not so sure about the others.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sort of. It’s definitely worse since Covid with the majority of “local” events being online either way. And where I live now it’s much quieter than where I used to live.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Dang. Covid really messed stuff up, I used to love Meetup before, but I haven't had as much time since (had a kid right after Covid started, so I've been spending more time at home).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mbin is attempt at having both. Microblog is a bit weak tho