@30b6b534 I've been reading a lot of what different people (especially people of influence) been saying about Mastodon, and checked on Bluesky, and, that's the conclusion I come to. Mastodon seems to have failed to capture the two waves of Twitter escapees. Twitter somehow still exists and many don't think of leaving. Bluesky is growing and it feels much lively than Mastodon, and resonates with a lot of people leaving Twitter. So ugh, things are looking kinda bleak, but that's my perspective. 

 @3779d299 How lively something is depends on the people you follow, doesn't it? 

 @30b6b534 on Bluesky and on Twitter, no, thanks to their fancy algorithms, you just go to Discover and find all the cool thighs, the closest we got to this here is with Explore. Of many people I listened to, many don't want to bother with looking for follows, and even if they do, the federation aspect was really getting in the way, like dealing with URLs is hard, some servers don't federate w/ each other, profiles being empty because no backfilling, etc. 

 @3779d299 Explore may feel slower because the score decay is set to pretty long, so older items stay on top longer. Anyway, Mastodon is the choice for serious journalists, scientists, and governments. We've had our vape ape phase in 2018. If I gave up every time somebody called Mastodon dead in the water we never would've gotten here 🙂