nicetriangle ,
@nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

Mastodon obviously but also giving bluesky a shot

ARealDinosaur , (edited )

I want to move to bluesky so bad but I just can't get a damn invite. I applied via email months ago. This is their moment & I kinda feel like the invite system is holding them back. (But I do understand why it was implemented.)

Edit: omg you guys are so sweet. I only just started using this place but I'm sold. You're awesome!

heyfluxay ,

Remind me, get invites every 2 weeks and I can get you one.

ARealDinosaur ,

Thank you so much!! I actually just got one but you are so sweet for offering!

nicetriangle ,
@nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

I have 2 extra, will DM you

ARealDinosaur ,

I think I replied to your DM but I'm still learning so just in case: YOU ARE AMAZING TYSM!!!!

nicetriangle ,
@nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

DM recieved and no problem! Hope you dig it over there. I haven’t dived in too deep but it seems promising

effingjoe ,

It's very... dramatic over there, and I know it's supposed to be a beta (trust me, I know) but there seems to be a lot of missing functionality. I pop in every few days and it's like there a new moral outrage about bluesky each time.

nicetriangle ,
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I mostly follow people in the art/illustration community so I'm not really seeing what you're complaining about, but to be fair your complaint could be levied against basically every big online community out there right now including the fediverse.

effingjoe ,

I am mostly judging by the "hot" feed, since I only follow a few people that I knew via Twitter, and to a significant degree you're right-- there was the same kind of drama on kbin and lemmy when I joined. (I checked out threads for ~30 seconds so I can't say about there) I don't remember anything like that on Mastodon, but I'm sure it's there. It seemed more rapid-fire on bluesky. Specifically there seemed to be a lot of hate against the devs on Bluesky for various reasons.

In any event, it's a pretty big echo chamber right now but that's to be expected while it's in invite-only. I'm sure it will settle out when it opens up to the general public.

Kondoriano ,

I've also been wanting to try Bluesky would anyone have any invites available?

ARealDinosaur ,

I just got in but when I get invites I'll come back if nobody else has yet!

woshang OP ,

Well I just found an Decentralized social platform called WireMin.

They claim they are for 100% censorship resistance &100%Privacy due to its decentralized structure.

Somehow decentralized can acheive that right? I mean no censorship.

janWilejan ,
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I haven't heard of WireMin until now. Looking at their FAQs, they have a lot of promises and not much to back them up. There's a lot of red flags here

  • Closed source. It appears to be totally proprietary, so you can't look at the source code to ensure that they aren't lying about their product
  • They will be introducing microtransactions into their chat app; likely using cryptocurrency.
  • It's full of web3 crypto nonsense. It seems to me the only real plan to fund development is to be bought out by a large investor in the future.
nicetriangle ,
@nicetriangle@kbin.social avatar

Hard pass on that. Also 100% censorship resistance sounds good at face value until you realize that can easily be construed to mean that nazis are free to run wild there.

woshang OP ,

Good point, I saw this on their FAQ page too, not sure if it could explain some.

palordrolap ,

Hadn't hear of this. Looked into it a bit.

The fact it requires a specific piece of software, even on desktop, puts it one step from (old) Twitter to me.

Even things like Discord - while very much not the same in other ways - has a web version that runs in a browser. Ditto the early 00's instant messaging apps.

Also, the decentralisation seems to all be under the control of the one company(?). They say "no single entity controlling it" but there's not much further detail. I might be mistaken, but it doesn't seem like the Fediverse's version of decentralisation, at least at first glance.

Moving further(?) into tinfoil hat territory: The founder's name is very similar to that of a late Reddit founder, which is worth a double-take. Funny coincidence? Fake name? Either way might be playing on the coincidence? etc. etc. Hard to tell. Dude's probably legit, right?

b) A few of the web links for it were in Chinese, but that's probably a red herring. Translation suggests people in China are using it to get around certain internet issues.

Maybe I'm just suspicious of new things.

woshang OP ,

I even ask their customer service about this "no single entity controlling it"

Crul ,

Source (I think) for the image:

seacocker ,
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If you like Mastodon but miss that Twitter layout, I’d suggest looking up Elk. It’s a web client version which can be installed, I’m very impressed so far.

andyMFK ,

I’ve never understood exactly what people get out of Twitter, and don’t understand why you’d need an alternative? Why not just use Lemmy as your alternative?

verysoft ,

News and updates from specific companies/projects/people.

How people always fail to see the usefulness of the platform amazes me. There is nothing else like it for that purpose, moving elsewhere is difficult if all the accounts you are interested in are not also moving there.

b1ab ,
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Exactly.

Not everyone is on twitter for the political bullshit. Using banned words it’s easy to filter any political garbage. Twitter is quite useful. But I’m not there to convince or push my ideology on a bunch of polarized people. What a waste of energy.

Kaldo ,
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Exactly, if you block enough and follow the right people the twitter feed is a pretty good place to get news and content. Hard to get that on mastodon since, well... no algorithm to actually show these things to you, no people to actually follow and no time to read everything chronologically.

verysoft ,

Its definitely a lot worse now, but at its peak twitter algorithm worked pretty well, not that I ever used it, always did the standard chronological, but I wasn't following 100s of accounts anyway.

Had to setup RSS again now, but its not the same as it used to be, harder to find decent blogs with the news/updates I want that support RSS.

Gordon_Freeman ,
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News and updates from specific companies/projects/people

So let's say I'm interested in tech. I got my news and updates from tech oriented websites/blogs, with the added benefits of tutorials and other articles also posted there, why would I want to use twitter?

verysoft ,

Then that's great for you. Setup RSS and you are away.

But not everyone has their own website/blog and they use twitter instead.

soundasleep ,

Mastodon, easily Mastodon. I love it!

starlinguk ,
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I've been on Mastodon since October last year.

Don't get the official app, get Tusky. Then look under "federated" and follow the people you like. You can also search for a particular topic and follow that topic instead.

donuts ,
@donuts@kbin.social avatar

I second following hashtags when you first start out on Mastodon. It's probably the best method of discovery right now, since there is no algorithm feeding you constantly.

mjhagen ,

Switched to Mastodon end of last year.

theKalash ,

You’re still on twitter? Why?

woshang OP ,

Currently looking for alternative I guess

Polar ,

Mastodon. Seems like the logical choice, considering you’re already on the fediverse, and a lot of people already moved to Mastodon when Musk bought Twitter.

woshang OP ,

I found it hard to get interaction

starlinguk ,
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Download Tusky and find people in the federated tab. Also search for topics and follow those.

wallmenis ,

If we get enough people, you can get your interaction

8BitFriendly ,
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Start following tags and people, even if you don't know them very well.

leaskovski ,
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Can you do this in kbin?

floppy ,
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People, yes. Tags, not directly but if you follow kbin magazines most have related tags attached and you'll get microblog content matching those tags in your feed.

livus ,
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Yes click on microblogs and you will see a ton of mastodon content. If you see someone ypu want to follow, you can.

Also if you're in a mag that has selected tags the microblog section of that mag is just whatever is posted on mastodons under those tags.

PabloDiscobar ,
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An alternative to do what exactly? To just follow people? What about you follow no one?

woshang OP ,

DM, blog posting, no censorship plz

Pons_Aelius ,

no censorship plz

Sorry but that is a farcical expectation. All sites will have rules about what can and cannot be posted and will have to follow the laws of the country the server is based in.

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