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208 points henrijn | 1 comments | 16 Nov 24 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

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chevman ◴[16 Nov 24 22:57 UTC] No.42160216[source]▶

Highly recommend folks check out Mastodon as well - fully decentralized, no ads, no algo, no corporate control.

It is continuing to grow steadily and has tons of activity compared to a few years ago.

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m3kw9 ◴[16 Nov 24 23:00 UTC] No.42160249[source]▶

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why isn't mastodon one of the winners like bluesky?

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ericjmorey ◴[16 Nov 24 23:05 UTC] No.42160295[source]▶

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Its fundamental design lacks the ability to provide features that many people want, because the developers see those features as anti-features to be avoided.

Bluesky's AT Protocol was developed specifically to address what they saw as shortcomings with the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon and other similar services.

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1. Zak ◴[16 Nov 24 23:24 UTC] No.42160462[source]▶

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It's fundamentally reasonably capable of things like full text search and better discovery, which its lead dev and much of the community see as anti-features. There has been some recent progress on search, but being searchable is opt-in only because many users are opposed to search.

I think decisions like that are an active choice not to become popular.

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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day