Bluesky is VC backed and could be rug pulled like twitter at basically any time. Mastodon is actually decentralized, like @gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net mentioned, and won’t suffer the same fate. That pretty much made my decision for me. I deleted all my information off of Facebook years ago. Completely nuked my twitter. Haven’t posted at Reddit in years. I’m only doing stuff like Lemmy and Mastodon that are actually decentralized and not owned by anyone nor need to pay the piper at some point.

It’s not fool proof, they could still bottom out, but it’s not guaranteed like it it with Bluesky; where it’s more a matter of when than if.

That said, Bluesky has done a much better job of getting the “cool kids” over to it. A lot of weird/left twitter folks went there while their Mastodon account haven’t seen posts in years. So, I don’t begrudge anyone that goes to Bluesky too much, pretty much all my favorite podcasters are active there. But I’m done with this corporate shell game crap.

Agree. Elden Ring is the only one I’ve liked personally. And a big reason is being able to fuck off and go do something else if you find a boss battle or section of the game too difficult. There’s so much to do and explore and check out that it didn’t feel like I was “grinding” ever.