• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    18 days ago

    That seems less than ideal. And yet, here we are with it being way more popular than Mastodon.

    Were people really that damn confused over “which instance do I join”?

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      18 days ago

      People don’t care about decentralization as long as they have a credible exit; in fact, many may prefer the features of centralization. Bluesky also has an algorithm.

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      18 days ago

      Could be as simple as blue sky having the money behind it to advertise it more

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        5 days ago

        Yeah I could see this being a big factor. Advertising money can also mean directly paying people to use it, and hoping some of their followers might come along.