Hi guys, I’ve got a Bluesky code to give away, and I figured some of you guys would like it. Just a few requirements:
- You must have been a member of pawb.social for at least two weeks.
- You must have commented or posted on something in pawb.social in the past two weeks. Doesn’t matter if you’re doing so after this post either, though hopefully you’ll keep being active.
- To be entered, you need to reply to this post (which will not count toward the past two weeks’ activity requirement).
I’ll be randomly picking someone after 48 hours, and I’ll likely delete this post after another 24. Best of luck!
Edit: It’s been 48 hours, and of the 3 people who commented, only one actually didn’t have Bluesky already, so DraconicNeo has been sent the code. I have to say the response has been surprising. I offered a free giveaway, and got the post downvoted to hell and nothing but negativity for it. I absolutely won’t be repeating this again. Screw deletion, I’d just as soon leave this up so the next person doesn’t try to make my mistake.
Yeah, I’m guessing that’s why it’s sitting at -7 and going down for a free giveaway. I know there’s some contention between people invested in specific federation protocols, but I wasn’t expecting this to garner that response.
@Kovukono I mean another big reason is that many people here highly value open source and decentralization and while Bluesky promises to deliver that decentralization via AT Proto, currently they haven’t done that. There aren’t really any other instances and the main one doesn’t have AT Proto Federation enabled (so even if you set up your own it’s no use), so at the moment Bluesky is no different from a centralized platform, just with the promise of being decentralized in the future.
Mastodon on the other hand is decentralized right now, with many many servers to choose from, it’s not a future promise of future decentralization, it is decentralized already. It also doesn’t carry the negative connotation that Invite-only platforms carry, which is promotion by way of FOMO (fear of missing out), yeah some instances are invite-only but there are other instances people can join and still interact with everyone else due to federation.
I get that people aren’t happy with Bluesky’s invite-only approach, or that they haven’t turned on federation yet. I’m not claiming it’s even a great platform; hell, they don’t even have support for gifs or private messages yet. I just had a code, and was hoping I’d brighten someone’s day by a chance to get it. Just seems Lemmy would rather have it buried.
@Kovukono Yeah it actually kind of sucks that people were so hostile towards it, honestly my first comment was more meant to be a joke (especially since I’m replying on Mastodon), but I guess it also wasn’t as much of a joke as I thought considering how many people tried to bury the post.
Honestly, not delivering on the promise of decentralization is what makes Bluesky functional. With Mastodon i’m constantly having federation problems.
IMO Mastodon is more of a long play, in the sense that it will be great five years from now whereas corporate social media like Threads and Bluesky will enshittify. But as of right now, Mastodon is not super usable. I saw a lot of people move to it during the Musk era of Twitter but very few of them are staying, in fact Lemmy isn’t really retaining the users it gained from Reddit either
@BOLOID Which instances are you on because I haven’t had very many federation issues on mine. I do know that the gGmbH instances (mastodon.social, mastodon.online, etc.) are generally limited by many other instances on the count of spambots and poor moderation. It’s why it isn’t recommended to choose them (you’ll run into issues following people or fetching content, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature).