Even before the U.S. election sped up an exodus from the Elon Musk-owned site, X had reportedly lost one-fifth of its active users in the U.S. and one-third in the U.K.. Bluesky seems to have the juice to win over some of those fleeing users — especially journalists and others interested in news …
Yes but my mastodon is either empty or full of Nazis until something gets banned. Threads is a bunch of old white dudes lecturing everyone about everything. On bsky I found most of the stuff I care about. Unfortunately that’s where people are going.
I’ve been on Mastodon for a long time, and I haven’t seen a single Nazi. If your Mastodon is “empty or full of Nazis,” my guess is there’s one of four things going on:
You aren’t following/followed by good people. Use hashtags, boost toots, follow people back, follow accounts that try to share interesting accounts or hashtags.
banandmutefunctions for bad actors. For especially bad ones, report them.You aren’t following hashtags. Similar to the above, there’s no algorithm. You decide what your feed looks like, and following hashtags for subjects you’re interested in will help you find good people and good commentary (this is much healthier than letting a dumb algorithm decide what you’ll find “most engaging,” anyway)
You are looking at the Local or Global feeds too often. Depending on your instance’s federation rules, you are more likely to find those aforementioned “bad actors” here, since these feeds are not curated.
Your definition of “Nazi” is the one that means “anyone left of Marxists,” or, “supports Democrats,” and if so, that’s watering down the meaning of the word and giving cover to the real Nazis.
Whatever the case, if the people you’re seeing aren’t sharing your ideals, pick a different instance or spin up your own, and/or do the things I suggested (insomuch as they are relevant to you). My Mastodon feed is filled with artists and just generally positive people trying to do some good in the world.
That’s the advice i usually give: hashtags, not people… interesting people will follow.
I’m almost always on the global, I’ll try to follow hashtag. I deleted bsky, btw
Hashtag follows were a game changer for my experience. The people that remember to use them usually care about what they’re saying, too, and seem to be more invested in the Fedi way of doing things.
I also recommend https://fedi.tips/ for getting started.
i cant find shit to do on mastodon. bluesky has the feeds which flung the door to folks i like to follow right open. its the better platform- id prefer it if it was decentralized but alas, like you said, thats where the herd wandered
Wow so funny and edgy! Kepp it up dude, you might have a career!