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[–] [email protected] 81 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Mastodon will still be there when this one burns down too

[–] [email protected] 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

True, but unless they have a solution to the bot problem blsky is having and reddit has...

They won't fair any better...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Bsky has block lists and subscriptions to different moderation services labelers (that anyone can run) and you can pick and choose.

This is honestly an amazing feature. I hope someone can implement it in fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yup, organic growth

[–] [email protected] 73 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully the Mastodon devs are paying attention to the features that bsky has that they don't, and actually copy them rather than sit there and tell everyone that no, they're wrong they don't want that feature.

I want to like Mastodon (or any platforms that are federated with them and trying very hard to be them) but they're utter and total lack of interest in and development of features the community keeps asking for is going to keep it a niche option for weirdos while people keep hopping into corpo social platform after corpo social platform.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

The mastodon developers are us.

It's open source so yeah...my PRS are part of the community. And so are yours. And projects like GoToSocial make it seemless if someone wants to implement the same protocol in a slightly different way.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's really not how it works, especially in regards to what OP is referring to. Anyone can offer contributions to mastodon, but that doesn't mean they'll be accepted. Mastodon has an organization and that organizations has opinions on what should and shouldn't be implemented. For example, Mastodon doesn't federate favorites, so you only see the amount of favorites a post has recieved from your own interest. I'd like for this to be changed, and I could submit a PR to do so, but it wouldn't be accepted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Pretty much this, which leads to a bajillion different forks and similar-but-not-quite alternatives that have some neat features but lack others, which your instance of choice probably won't ever migrate to and which all risk being abandoned by the single person that decides to work on it.

Just to give a taste of forks - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/issues/47

[–] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don't see the value of a feature, they won't merge it.

If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you'll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If Bluesky goes, Lemmy will be my permanent home

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

It won't go. At least not in the near future. They're just growing. And that comes with consequences. The article says they're at it. And doing a good job.