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Bluesky decides to enshittify at record speed! (gizmodo.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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I guess I'm glad I was never a big Twat, so Bluesky wasn't a place of refuge for me the way Lemmy was when Reddit went off the rails.

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[–] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Dude, not trying to throw shade at Mastodon, but where on Lemmy I get tons of interaction, on Pixelfed and Loops I get a solid amount and on Bluesky I get plenty in comments and some on my own posts...

I have had ZERO ANYTHING on Mastodon, and the content I post is more or less the same as the others. The app looks sleek and upload quality is better than the others, but it feels like being shadowbanned on Meta... Photos, memes, text, political, personal, you name it, nothing.

I make a point to use each of these apps once a day. No one is reciprocating anything on Mastodon. Again, it feels like being shadowbanned. I honestly hate it at this point. I'm trying to engage with those people and they're giving me nothing.

Maybe it's literally a technical issue, no joke. Or maybe I'm like the old lady in the "If my phone isn't broken then why don't my relatives call me?" story

EDIT: I'm surprised to hear I'm not alone. I thought my little rant would get downvoted. Well, dang! We need to fix Mastodon then!

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    For me it's not as bad as you described, people reply if i ask something or comment but i don't know how to find the content and the people that I'd like to follow. I do follow some accounts that I like but still my feed feels dead :( I think Lemmy is easier because it's a "subject/interest first" place whereas mastodon (or twitter) is "people first" place. I was never a twitter fan either so I actually don't quite know what to expect from it neither.

    I still keep visiting Mastodon after I get angry to Instagram though, which happens quite often (I know mastodon is a twitter alt and we have pixelfed for ig)

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's true about Lemmy. It's been a good replacement for both Reddit and Facebook groups, though smaller.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    It's been but it's kind of starting to really reflect some of the crap you see on reddit. Thankfully not too much mod or monetization drama as of yet, but I've noticed we are really starting to draw in some wackadoo users from Reddit as of late. Just even over the past month, I've had to start blocking some subs, I've been starting to see waves of some pretty unhinged stuff. Thats what's great about the fediverse, is it can grow and evolve. But that still doesn't solve one of the biggest primary problems with social media, and that's its public users, some of whom are just straight up people I don't want to be near, even virtually.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I hear you. Even in places where everyone mostly agrees on politics there are still niches that are bizarre, offensive, cult-like or aggressive or individuals that turn every disagreement into a fight. I stumble upon them sometimes on all the new platforms. What can I say? We're definitely not living in an echo chamber. Right-wingers are wrong about that one

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like there aren't as many users on mastodon as you would like. Next time you see a public figure using only bluesky and not the fedevirse make sure to call them out.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Will do. If I can find the time to be on 5 different platforms, they can too. I've been itching to log into the ol'gram (Instagram, that is) and nudge some of my favorite indie bands towards joining fediverse

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    that's not been my experience. I set followers to needs approval as well, fuck if i can figure out why anyone would follow me. I have kind of abandoned my masto account and now use Goto Social

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    I know why this happens. My comments get more, sometimes many more, comments and likes on Mastodon than on Bluesky.

    On Mastodon, it's all how many people you follow and who follow you back. There are other ways to find posts on Mastodon, like the federated tab on your server, but many people don't seem to use them as much. To find things on Mastodon you must follow lots of people. You have a lot more work to do on Mastodon if you want things to read and for people to read you.

    Compared to Twitter, this is also true on Bluesky, but management there has tried to give users ways to find people other than an algorithm (which Bluesky does have in its Discover tab, which I notice post quality drops substantially from my curated following list), in the form of starter packs. On Mastodon the account FediFollows is a good place to find groups of people to follow, and FediTips for general ideas and advice.

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