Yup, and afaik bluesky is just another corporate competitor to Twitter, so migrating there would still leave users vulnerable to the same basic hazards of Twitter, namely that they’re still at the mercy of the whims of some CEO or board of directors. It’s just a hope that those “leaders” are better, and will remain better.

The right wingers demonstrated the folly of that when they tried to migrate to parler only to have passport info and all kinds of shit demanded, STILL get censored by their own fellow right-wingers, and eventually had the rug pulled out from under them.

There’s no reason to place your trust in a centralized corporate entity. Better to have something like this, with a good (not hateful) community and multiple points of redundancy. If lemmy.world went down there’s tons of alternatives that take literally no effort to migrate to, if you don’t like the moderation (or lack thereof) on one instance you can easily move, etc.

Granted, I don’t use Twitter so I can’t judge the relative ease of use, which I reckon will be the main factor for most normal users, less-so for someone already on Lemmy since that seems to self-select more for tech savvy.

I do know that the transition to Lemmy was very easy for me, and if it doesn’t already exist a dead simple instruction post could be written up to get people up and running within minutes so long as the author doesn’t bog the reader down with too many choices (ie, just suggest one good-enough client for Android and apple each, point people towards lemmy.world and don’t confuse people with all the various instances, and let them expand outwards from there organically as they get the lay of the land).

BlueSky has algorithms. Both platforms have their place, but BlueSky is definitely more in the interests of people who like modern web design.

Mastodon is nice an all (I switched from twitter to mastodon 2 months ago and have really enjoyed it) but some people just want twitter 2 and not necessarily a federated service where you have to worry about what instances are blocked, who can see what, etc. Also the fact that some people want twitter to interact with celebrities and content creators, at least from those I follow almost all the ones that mentioned moving are going to bluesky.

Those are the two reasons I can think of on why not just moving to mastodon, I love mastodon but for me its more about interacting with people in a way different from what rwddit was fue to the lack of feed and algorithms to show you content, it is all chronological be it an instance you look at, the tags, etc.

And mastodon lowkey lacks being more approachablr right now, for the average user choosing an instance is a difficult task, there are many good videos explaining it and all, but joining mastodon for a lot of people takes effort since it involves learning about the fediverse and that is a bareier of entry that prevents the mass appeal twitter has.

I do feel this issues will solve themselves once more people start using it and once it gets more big celebrities (not just the tech related ones), but it is understandable why some people want a different thing.

Not OP but I recently started using Mastodon at and it was not for me.

For my use case, it was hard to find people I can trust/verify on the platform. I do not want to read every single toot, and browsing via hashtags isn’t ideal. Even when I search a hashtag it still does not show me the most meaningful toots but latest ones. It lacks (on purpose) an algorithm to surface the most interesting toots given a context. I believe Bluesky may have that!

Lemmy, however, is so much better with upvotes, sorting and search.

You don’t have to try to make toot sound serious. Toots should be heard and not seen.