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What’s the deal with mastodon these days? Has it been losing ground to bluesky? Does it have a different position on the ideological spectrum? It seems likely that one of them will wind up as the default left-of-center Twitter alternative.

Bluesky seems to have attracted a large portion of the people for whom Mastodon was a little bit too technically weird and was missing features (like search and retweets and a customizable algorithmic feed) that they valued

This is it. I spent a lot of time on Mastodon a few years back, but I started to despair when it became clear that they were committed to a level of pluralism that made basic discovery features like search controversial to implement.

Same for me - anti-search, anti-algorithm, also the journa. host affair (defederations because of a post that linked a New York Times article approvingly)...