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Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms (www.dailyuw.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (47 children)

Why switch to BlueSky if you have Mastodon...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (30 children)

I'm on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:

instant add subscribe lists
subscribable block lists
custom feeds/subscribable algorithms
keyword/topic blocks
nuclear block where you never see the blocked person again
optional discover feed
DM preferences

All these things (and more I'm sure I'm forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.

I am still trying with Mastodon, but it's really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn't bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I've seen a few larger creators say the reply management is bad at scale, too. The thing I mostly like is that here I am, reading Lemmy from Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I'd prefer Mastodon to implement all these features and win, but I understand why it's not winning ATM.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Same. Plus I came back here because Bluesky got too noisy so I'm kind of happy if it stays small!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Lemmy is still my favorite, I was never a huge fan of the Twitter model, but I enjoy taking part in the destruction of X.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

over time I'll probably end up moving over to Lemmy tbh. I think I'd prefer more of a forum vibe. I was never a Redditor so I didn't "get" it until I started following Lemmy feeds.

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