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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.

Fortunately, with @ap.brid.gy, the people on Mastodon who do want to be a bit more visible can be. I think the status quo with bridged accounts can be pretty stable

i was appalled by the bridgy backlash on masto. that was one of those watershed moments where i started to doubt the fediverse could really make a difference in the world. it doesn’t want to, they’re clear about that, i should’ve believed them

I didn't witness it in real time, but hard a hard time believing it when I first heard about it Anyway, people have different priorities. That's fine