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It feels to me like the single biggest difference between Bluesky and Mastodon is that Bluesky wants to be a viable Twitter replacement and Mastodon doesn't

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

28 Apr 2023

And honestly most of that comes down to timing: when Mastodon was created 7 years ago the world didn't NEED a Twitter replacement - Twitter was doing just fine! Bluesky is being born into a world where a replacement is very firmly needed

Jesse Vincent

@s.ly

mastodon was also originally populated by people who were driven off of Twitter before it was almost Twitter. The cultural norms that grew up there are decidedly more proscriptive, for better or for worse.

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Jesse Vincent

@s.ly

28 Apr 2023

Damn it, Siri. "people who were driven off of Twitter before it was Elmo's Twitter"