Mastodon isn't even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

where pleroma

where akkoma

where misskey

where firefish

where iceshrimp

where sharkey

where cherrypick

where catodon

where mitra

I don't recall feeling overly impressed with content on Mastodon, it's just social media, but with a small userbase, I'm guessing more tech-saavy. I think what ultimately "wins" in the social media space is wherever "everybody" ends up going. Right now, Bluesky seems to have the momentum going for it as people are flocking to it in droves, but it's hard to tell how sustainable it is long-term as the hype settles down. Right now everybody is excited and seems like they're trying to make it a positive, creative, liberal space, but eventually trolls will start invading the space and it'll be like every other social media site unless it's somehow structured in a way as to avoid that.

Bluesky is weird to me. I tried to use it for all of 15 minutes. One of the recommended feeds was called "Blacksky", which is a feed specifically tailored for black users of Bluesky. I'm perfectly fine with that. I was, completely innocently, asking if there were other feeds based on race, similar to blacksky. I was threatened with a ban for racism. My question was very literally phrased "I see that blacksky exists, does the platform also have other race-specific feeds for users? Or only this one? It's the only one that was recommended to me which seems strange for a new user."

We cannot win by changing the fediverse into something like what we left behind because it will no longer be the fediverse we know and love, all we have is the good fight of educating people on why it is better and ourselves as an example - a city on a hill to which others may flock if they see the shine, and it may not be a fight we can win but it is the only fight worth fighting.

Mastodon is better than Bluesky, but unfortunately everyone is flocking to Bluesky. You have to go where the people are