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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago

they're both open source.

bluesky was just made by former twitter users who wanted the twitter experience without musk.

mastodon was made to be the opposite of twitter.

they're both good; i prefer twitter but things like bridgy-fed help bring the best of both worlds and let mastodon and bluesky talk to each other.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

Mastodon not being Twitter has been part of my ongoing description of it when asked. If you liked Twitter because you might rub elbows with important people, watch the drama in real time, or go algorithmically viral for a sick burn (or alternately something cool), you're not going to get any of that on Mastodon. If you want microblogging to subscribers, it's got that. If old school "people actively shared me" virality is enough, it's got that. But it's not going to replace Twitter, because Twitter was a culture and an algorithm as much as it was a microblogging site.

If Lemmy had more people it could be almost a 1-for-1 Reddit replacement (still a little confusing with multiple communities of the same name/topic). Mastodon can't do that for Twitter.

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