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Difference between Mastodon and Bluesky
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Privacy
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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
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Well there are lots of nuanced and technical differences but really the only important part is that 99.9% of BlueSky users are on the "flagship instance", making federation arbitrary.
Further, they have no viable path to profitability, which inevitably eventually leads to exploiting it's users. Meanwhile Mastodon already maintains a non-profit status and already receives more contributions than they need.