Previously, I admitted my mastodonian ignorance as to how people enthusiastic about Bluesky could ignore the risk of the service following in the footsteps of Twitter toward … being a garbage dump.
The answer was just as obvious as I should have expected it to be, and just the kind of glaringly obvious that is so easy to miss when your mind is coming at it from the wrong angle.
I was listening to the latest episode of Modermodemet where Bluesky was discussed - in positive terms - and right at the end they addressed and answered my question head on:
No, of course they do not expect Bluesky to remain good. But they will enjoy the good while it lasts.
Wow, what a magical mindset of detachedness and finding joy in the present. Of course. People are just starting to migrate off of Twitter, that was not so hard once we got started, we can easily do it again when needed. It makes complete sense.
Kicking the tires, I have set up both Bluesky and Threads accounts for Kodsnack, and I was surprised about how joyless I felt even though the process in both cases was as easy as could be.
Threads was easiest to pin down: it feels like a text version of Instagram, timeline algorithmically pre-flooded with crap. All I could think of was looking up a few accounts I already follow on Mastodon. Then I realized that for one, the Kodsnack account is not personal and has nothing to do with those accounts, and for another that I already follow those accounts on Mastodon.
Bluesky on the other hand, feels nice and calm in itself. It feels like a older version of Twitter to a fault, polished, calm, and rather well thought out. It made me think that a second social network of the same type is a lot less valuable and a lot harder to feel invested in than the first. In my case, I have Mastodon as my first, so what do I want with Bluesky? I think the thing to do - apart from of course posting Kodsnack news and commentary - would be to follow different people and topics. Try to build something different and see how it works out. But, and this is a big but, I do not need more things to read. I read too many updates already, the last thing I need is a more active Mastodon.
So, interesting options to explore. But it was fun to connect the Bluesky account to my own domain, and I am sure it will all come in handy at some point.
Somehow.
Still, my reading and focus remains with Mastodon.