▲ 1253 ▼ Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X. (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by LuuTuyen@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 265 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (3 children) Choice is a good thing, though. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don't care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow. Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago What's good for freedom is bad for ease of use. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nao@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago agree, but for some reason many people don’t seem to think that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pixelscript@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) Choice is an irritating speed bump to people who don't care to choose, which unfortunately is most of them. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow. Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] priapus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* It doesn't need to be, as long as there is also a proper default for those who don't care. Lemmy and Mastodon both unfortunately lacked this during the periods where they both had the most opportunity to grow. Nowadays Mastodon does it pretty well. Users don't need to know anything, they just download Mastodon from the app store and register on the instance it chooses by default. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 years ago What's good for freedom is bad for ease of use. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago agree, but for some reason many people don’t seem to think that way permalink fedilink source parent