Bluesky has the most twitter like user base of all the twitter clones that I’ve tried, and it’s up to you if that’s a good or bad thing. It’s not all segments of twitter though, there isn’t really any of right wing twitter or crypto twitter for example (a lot of furries on the other hand) which is quite nice actually. It isn’t really active or important enough to get a lot of the big drama or main character moments and there aren’t really any celebs, journalists and politicians posting there. So it’s a bit like twitter without many of the lows but also many of the highs.
i honestly like bsky more than threads or mastodon mostly because the ui is far easier to use and more pre elon twitter like. that and the fact that both trans twitter and book twitter moved over and are thriving
Bluesky users will be able to opt into experiences that aren’t run by the company
Yea, no, the biggest server not showing federated content by default is just pseuso-federation - being able to say you have it, while not really doing it.
I really don’t see that. You’ve got 3 million users who are happy using the platform- if it were me I certainly wouldn’t turn on federation for them without asking.
I’d probably have a process that initially
Make federation opt-in for existing users
Make federation an opt-in during onboarding of new users
Start promoting Turing federation on for existing users
Yeah, federation is not gonna get off the ground if the general public (who for the most part don’t know or care) are thrust into it and all it’s confusing quirks.
The best way to make federation work is by users not even having to know or care. Do users even know email is federated? No, they just sign up with a provider and it works. Same with the phone network, sign up somewhere and you can call everyone in the whole world.
I think part of the reason that users don’t get it is that the federation is sometimes explained too much.
Beehaw sets a really good example here because it doesn’t really promote itself as a lemmy instance but as a unique community that just happens to be connected.
There are some instances still up, but I think the assumption is that eventually all of them will shutdown with time. I don’t know the exact reason for it (you can read more here), but something was changed on Twitter’s side that will end all of these.
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