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PS this is what I mean about the MSM and tech press jumping on the Bluesky hype bubble. It's complete with really shitty clickbait headlines like "Bluesky's best shot at success is to embrace shitposting" or "'BlueSky' wants to market itself as a 'Musk-free' space, says CEO". I can almost see the alien bat baby on the cover of Weekly World News supermarket tabloids when reading these search results LOL. Honestly this feels like an episode of the HBO show Silicon Valley almost at this point. #bluesky #msm #technews
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results for Bluesky, Page 1
Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results for Bluesky, Page 2
#technews #MSM #bluesky
Kristian
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@Hank G ☑️ What to learn from that however: Communication matters. Bluesky knows well how to do that. Mastodon to some degree also knows how to do that. "The Fediverse" as a concept, a structure, a community, doesn't. Or doesn't have the power, structure, organization, ... to do so. That's why it will go unnoticed and slip the attention of just too many people. Even if 90% of this is rubbish and utter bs, it ... still will reach people, it will get people involved, it will get people eager to try out this stuff and (in the end) maybe cause a critical mass of people gather there, forming a next Twitter on maybe another proprietary platform.
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anubis2814
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@Kristian @Hank G ☑️ In my opinion Friendica, misskey(or calckey) and pixelfed are superior to mastodon, but it has the sexiest marketing stratagy. Unless we build something like that, the rest of the fediverse is going to be stuck in oblivion. Why my job so far, since I have poor programming skills, has been to educate and try to market the rest of the fediverse on youtube but I'm not the sexiest salesperson lol.
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Anders Rytter Hansen
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There are very few users on Friendica (like me). would be great with more users so the interest for it would increase, lets say in app selections for example. Almost all apps are made for Mastodon and while friendica supports mastodon's api, these apps dont support all friendica's features such as the dislike button.
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Anders Rytter Hansen Yes. Definitely so. Actually, some of the Mastodon clients work well, but I catch myself more and more, on mobile, to use e-mail notifications and the browser for using Friendica, which works better at times (yet is something hard to communicate in days in which having a "good" app seems a must-have for wider adoption). Looking forward to seeing Relatica grow, here.
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Anders Rytter Hansen
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same here. i use browser on my phone too because it works better. Yeah Relatica seems interesting. is it public now?
anubis2814
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@Anders Rytter Hansen @Hank G ☑️ @Kristian Other than easy article sharing and notifications the browser app does everything an actual app could do. But people I've talked to are scared to do anything that doesn't involve a dedicated app sadly. I actually like not being bugged by notifications by my social media.
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Kristian
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@anubis2814 Yes. 😔 (Even for notifications, using mail messages + IMAP push in my mail client managed to fixed that.) What's really a tad messy however in the browser is following links to other profiles and interacting with these - which in most cases will get you to some Mastodon/Friendica/Misskey/Diaspora public profile on a remote instance where you aren't logged in and can't interact with in a meaningful way in the browser. There are some addins to fix that but they seem to work only in desktop browsers and mostly only with Mastodon.

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Anders Rytter Hansen
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what are these addins called?
Anders Rytter Hansen
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Cool. This is really useful. Thank you!
Kristian
Kristian  
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@Anders Rytter Hansen You're welcome. This one works with Friendica at least on my system, but not on mobile Firefox. 😔
@Hank G ☑️ @anubis2814
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Anders Rytter Hansen
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yeah same here. works on desktop but not mobile. would be great to have it for mobile too
anubis2814
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@Anders Rytter Hansen @Hank G ☑️ @Kristian As only 15k people max can see the dislike if you post it, I rarely use it anyway.
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Anders Rytter Hansen
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good point. same actually.
Kristian
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@anubis2814 Yes. I'd even put it another way: It's not that Mastodon has the sexiest marketing strategy - it seems to be the only federated software that actually has _any_ kind of marketing strategy that deserves this name (as in "trying to find a particular target group", "trying to figure out how to reach that target group" and "trying to build something that works as good as it possibly can for that target group"). I see why this is the case for Mastodon, but I lack ideas how to do the same for other (technically superior) platforms... .

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Anders Rytter Hansen
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for Friendica, getting a more modern UI would be a good start. I wouldnt recommend Friendica to a non-IT or UI conscious person.
anubis2814
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@Anders Rytter Hansen @Hank G ☑️ @Kristian Its getting there much more quickly that it was. More developers are working on it than before, why we finally got the photo posting upgrade we've been wanting after all this time. I see a lot of new names in the commits these days.
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Anders Rytter Hansen
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thats great to hear. which photo posting feature do you mean? i was able to post photos in version 2023.01 too
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