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  • matcha_addict@lemy.lol
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    13 hours ago

    Your complaint is about an unknown instance admin committing a maintenance mistake. Will bluesky’s promised federation protect against that? You could join an instance managed by a well funded public entity if you want something that gets close to VC-funding. (which aren’t that reliable either. Look how many of these start-up platforms go away)

    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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      51 minutes ago

      See this is part of the problem.

      Dude was like “look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had”
      And you are like “yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they’re just as bad!”

      I’ve been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.
      I haven’t been using bsky because I’ve really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.