@sunnythesheep There’s plenty of criticisms, many valid, about Mastodon. I love it, but it’s no panacea. People went to Bluesky because a) it was easy and b) because of *that* the “cool kids” went there and folks followed.

Add in a quick feed to get people engaging? Check done.

Mastodon & the fediverse at large can be the long term solution, but we still got a ways to go!

@sunnythesheep @Mastodon you don’t need to pitch it to me. I’m all in on the fediverse and its potential.

But my conversations with folks on Bluesky, IG, etc when I preach the virtues — they falling on deaf ears.

It’s still seen as complex, not user friendly, and feels like “starting over” where Bluesky doesn’t.

@sunnythesheep @Mastodon trending isn’t bad, but that’s not “my feed” / “my timeline” and it’s been a major complaint about mastodon when I chat with folks who gave up. An empty feed.

Hashtags essentially work the same as the Bluesky feeds to follow. They are just “topics”. Hit folks with a list of The Big Ones they can follow and get that feed going!

@Mastodon Awesome! The other issue is “filling up the feed”, right? Bluesky’s feeds to follow are nice, but we got hashtags here. Maybe when people sign up, you also give them a nice (and attractively presented) list of hashtags to follow???

LEAN IN on that old school spirit and people feeds will fill up right away!!!

As an atheist, I’m constantly amazed how much Christianity abandoned that whole WWJD thing — what *would* Jesus do, indeed.

I love the Fediverse and really enjoy the Mastodon platform, but (and this surprises me) the gaming community over on Bluesky is really big & engaging! Like, not gamergate types, like good folks!!!

How do we get some folks off Bluesky???

#gaming #bluesky #mastodon #fediverse

Really takes the whole social thing out of social.

@mina oh my no. They LOVE dementia don!