I know it might be an unpopular opinion over here, but I feel that’s still an acceptable price. Music is honestly the only media where I just can’t see myself going back to piracy again, because the comfort and ability to discover new music is just pretty much impossible to achieve without a streaming service… unfortunately
I’m all for privacy and I can definitely get lost in those topics too, those guys just have to realize that 90% of people don’t really care, even if I wish it was different. If you really want to become a big player, you need to provide an easy to understand UI, the features people are already used to and as little of an entry barrier as possible. Or you build up on an already existing user base like FB with threads, but I’m kinda happy that one’s still not available in the EU haha
I tried. Mastodon attracts a pretty specific crowd in my experience though. Usually people with at least a certain interest in tech topics and the whole mood just felt a bit serious. I don’t have high hopes for it to become mainstream enough to really be a serious competitor, because the barrier to entry literally has to be insanely low for that, for a lot of people.
I have two accounts on Twitter, one for work where I follow Englisch speaking people around my specific tech niche for work, some of those might be on Mastodon but not enough to make the move yet. And on my private account I basically have a purely German crowd that’s been 50% random shitposting and chatting with each other and 50% political discourse. All of those decided to move to Bluesky and to cut the political discussions for a while. Now we’re all just enjoying the few months of peace over there :-)
Haha yeah, the furries seem to love it for some reason. I don’t know about other countries, but it feels like at least the core of my German bubble collectively moved there over the last couple of weeks. If you’re looking for specific topics, celebrities or experts, it will definitely take a lot of time to build a new network that can compete with Twitter. Had high hopes in Mastodon for a while, everyone who was fed up with Elon moved there for like two weeks, and then it all fell apart.
Really happy that I made the move to Bluesky. Really gives me a similar vibe to when I switched from reddit to lemmy. Everything’s smaller, people are nice, not a lot of drama… at least for now. We’ll see how things change when the beta ends and more people start coming there.
For some reason I can’t seem to stop shaking a bottle of water first before taking a sip out of it