Atleast in Features. It will 100% become better if they added true decentralisation.
This is a popular opinion, but pretty unpopular within the fediverse bubble ngl
Since Bluesky has twice as many users as mastodon, I’m thinking this opinion isn’t truly unpopular.
No no. Not twice as many.
Mastodon has, from a google search a few days ago about 975k users.
Bluesky, goohle search 30 seconds later had 20 million users, and a news story that they gained 700k users in the past 24 hours (at the time). So I’m unclear if the 700k is included in the 20 mil, or if it should be more like 20.7mil.
Either way, it’s far from 1.5mil total.
Not sure if it’s that unpopular nowadays. Starter packs, moderation lists, global search go a long way compared to Mastodon
Seriously, Mastodon has languished under Gagron and it’s probably not gonna grow much more. They spent years hemming and hawing about adding quote posts, they ignored the problems with onboarding for years before just defaulting to .social, they’re still clueless what to do about moderation and harassment despite piles of user feedback, bug reports, pull requests. This is one case where an open source BDFL just entirely tanks a project.
Is it hard to host a server for friends and family?
Almost impossible : https://feddit.org/post/2656676
Everyone loves the shiny new thing when it’s still burning through VC money and hasn’t been sold off for value extraction yet.
