This. I found the invite codes extremely dumb so I only started using it after they got rid of that. I’d love to only use Mastodon, but the reality is there is barely anyone there. I want to follow artists and artists go where their stuff gets seen by many people. Mastodon sadly cannot provide that at this time.
The people I know that use BlueSky just wanted Twitter without Musk. It wasn’t much more complicated than that and BlueSky has provided that.
Adding AI is very Musk-like so I’m not surprised there’s backlash.
This. I found the invite codes extremely dumb so I only started using it after they got rid of that. I’d love to only use Mastodon, but the reality is there is barely anyone there. I want to follow artists and artists go where their stuff gets seen by many people. Mastodon sadly cannot provide that at this time.
b-b-but it’s the future!11!