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What’s the difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Misskey?

posted 2 months ago

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Kyle Judd@lemmy.autism.place

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b34k@lemmy.world

66 points

2 months ago

So what I’m hearing is… Bluesky is the only one that actually has a chance of going mainstream

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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org

45 points

2 months ago

I don’t understand why that’s always true but yes

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Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

33 points

2 months ago

I think it’s because businesses tend to focus on super easy access, user interface and user engagement first, while open source projects tend to focus on tech and often forget about the end user experience.

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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org

16 points

2 months ago

I guess but with mastodon I literally cannot imagine it getting any easier.

Download app -> make an account (the app will default to some instance, at least it did for me) -> use it exactly like Twitter.

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deus@lemmy.world

19 points

2 months ago

As far as I’m aware, the big “problem” with Mastodon (and the Fediverse as a whole) is that you have to choose an instance to join. It’s an aditional step that mainstream social media does not have and it’s already enough to push regular people away. It’s kinda like trying to convince a Windows user to jump ship to Linux, by the time you begin explaining what a distro is you’ve already lost them.

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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org

6 points

2 months ago

Like I said in my comment tho. When I downloaded the app it automatically chose for me. I just made an account there and boom.

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xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org

6 points

2 months ago

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So you didn’t get the choice at all? I guess people who sign up this way are going to be really confused why they can’t follow some accounts their friends can.

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can@sh.itjust.works

2 points

2 months ago

Is that helpful though? Isn’t that the same as everyone registering at Lemmy.world?

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Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.works

2 points

2 months ago

Bluesky:

Download official, fully featured app and not something utterly crippled
Looks and feels like Twitter
No weird tech mumbo-jumbo (WTF is a server, is that like a Discord server, what’s that gotta do with Twitter) confusing you because there are no instances to choose from
Make an account
UI, UX, look & feel 100%, 1:1 fully identical with immediate pre-Musk Twitter
No need to get used to anything because literally everything stays precisely the same as what you’re used to, only that it’s no longer “Twitter” or “X” or “tweets”
Use it literally precisely the same as Twitter
Pretend you’re still on Twitter, it won’t make a difference

If Mastodon wanted to compete with this, it would have to

replace its default Web UI with an even more faithful clone of the immediate pre-Musk Twitter Web UI,
replace its official app with something that’s absolutely identical to the immediate pre-Musk Twitter app in all but name and branding
remove the instance chooser without introducing any other option of joining any other instance than mastodon.social
completely hide decentralisation and instances from newbies, ideally for a few months or years after they’ve joined
introduce a content-forwarding algorithm like the one on X, but better
forcibly ban Mastodon’s user-grown culture and force pre-Musk Twitter culture upon everyone
mollycoddle its users for months or years so that Mastodon really feels like “literally Twitter without Musk” by shielding them from not only all hints that Mastodon is different, but also from the entire rest of the Fediverse

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Eibriel@sopuli.xyz

2 points

2 months ago

Maybe wasn’t that way before, but when signing up on Bluesky now you are asked to choose a instance (bsky.social being the default), and the username contains the instance name, exactly like any Fediverse account.

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Jupiter Rowland@sh.itjust.works

1 point

1 month ago

Good to know.

Strangely, people don’t seem to mind.

I guess then a key difference is that Bluesky is presented to 𝕏 users as the same kind of monolith as 𝕏 whereas Mastodon is presented to them as a huge number of instances from which they absolutely have to pick one.

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Kayn@dormi.zone

1 point

2 months ago

How do you follow someone you discovered while browsing a foreign instance?

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Handles@leminal.space

3 points

2 months ago

You say “chance”, I read “intent” 🤷 Mainstream isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

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mesamune@lemmy.world

3 points

2 months ago

Yep then it will be the next twitter/Facebook/ect.

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