I dunno, I kinda like the Bluesky early wave users being rude and disrespectful to celebrities arriving from X. Remember when we all welcomed @npub14hcp...alyr with open arms to Mastodon? Well he hasn’t posted here in a year and I think he’s on substack now, so that didn’t work out so well for us. Perhaps the idea of decentralized social media needing celebrities is over, too.

WTF, I just noticed Boing Boing — probably the earliest popular tech blog — has outsourced all its comments to Substack! Note the "comment on Substack" link at the bottom of each post. Talk about #enshittification.

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I don’t want to see that on Mastodon, in the same way I wouldn’t have wanted the blogosphere to go mainstream — plus, in both cases ‘normal’ people don’t want that either. I’m definitely curious about Bluesky and how much it can scale, because ultimately they’re trying to take users from X (which I support). But do I want the stress of trying to get on all those Starter Packs to “build my following” etc…I’ll reluctantly try on Bluesky, but I don’t want that for Mastodon!

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AkaSci 🛰️ (@AkaSci@fosstodon.org)

Wouldn't it be great to see the headline "Mastodon adds 700,000 new users in a week?" What will it take? https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/2429...

Proof copy of my new book arrived today. It’s looking good! A chunky read at 373 pages. It should be up on Amazon by early December. #BookPublishing #IndieAuthor

I’ve found myself being less interested in opening Threads since the election result. Maybe unfair, but I kind of connect Musk with Zuck even more now. More importantly, Threads has never really felt Open Web to me, and I only want to support open web products (I’m giving Bluesky the benefit of the doubt for now). If Meta ever turns on two-way federation, so that Threads users can follow us, then I’ll be interested again. But until then, I’m OVER Threads.

This should be Mastodon's next catchphrase: "Not a Trump-inspired billboard".

Hate to say it, but this guy won too tonight. Fortunately, we can create a new media ecosystem on the open web that routes around his — the beauty of the internet and the web. Ok, our media definitely won’t be mainstream or “elite” (whatever that even means nowadays), but it won’t be owned by corporate overlords. I don’t know about you, but I’m doubling down even harder on the fediverse after this result.

Came across this today on Bluesky, by [@tomgauld.bsky.social](

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Tom Gauld (@tomgauld.bsky.social)

Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com

). Have to admit, it does sum up the present situation. We are all quite medieval when it comes down to it, lots of room for both kingdoms to grow (as long as Meta doesn’t nuke ours and the blockchain VCs don’t blow up theirs).

Open question for all the #bot builders: which is the better platform for building bots, Mastodon or Bluesky? They both have good APIs and there are some great bots on both platforms (e.g. @npub16str...k53z here, Retro Computing bot on Bluesky). But for bot devs, which is the better platform in your opinion — and why? For context on why bots can be useful and fun, see this interview I did with @npub1fd2l...f2f9 a couple of years ago: https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/

Nice post from @npub1qm36...d0q6 about the somewhat muddled 'open social media' ecosystem currently, where Mastodon and Bluesky are the trending platforms, and Threads is falling behind due to unfulfilled promises and a stale vibe.

Paths & Patches

Addition, magic, community. Bluesky & the Fediverse.

How 3 + 0 adds up to more than 1 + 2 This week Bluesky added over a million users. It’s taken a lot of moving parts coming together to get to th...