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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you'll have to make a decision on what instance you're creating your account. With Bluesky there's just Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

With bluesky ,the sign up has a section where you choose a server. The bluesky server is prefilled. Otherwise you add your own.

But not having that default option and instead having to have the user go research and figure out which server to use is an immediate turn off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Mastodon has one big, official node, too, though: joinmastodon.com.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep. 100% this.

Bluesky has the hyper casual "barrier'" of entry that Twitter had