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I like having Bluesky because it is a non-Twitter, non-Facebook space where I can hear from all my friends who are unable or unwilling to use Mastodon (a site with real barriers to entry). I haven't talked to a lot of those folks much since 2022 and I missed them.
I have intricate arguments why Bluesky is the wrong technical model for a distributed social network. But if a person has already decided *for nontechnical reasons* that they aren't using Mastodon, those arguments mean nothing to them
@mcc do you use the bridge?
@evan I do not think the bridge matches my model of how I use either website
@mcc like, following people you know?
@evan Oh. No, I just installed both apps.
@mcc OK. I don't think I understand what you mean by "model" then.
@evan The verbs are not the same and the communities are not the same. When I am publishing, I post subtly different streams based on the differing interests of my friends on the two sites, and I word things differently based on perceived attention spans and Mastodon's improved support for longform content (longer posts, bluesky UI fails on threads longer than 3 posts). On bluesky I post less stuff and the stuff I do post is simplified.
@mcc ah, thanks!
@evan@cosocial.ca @mcc@mastodon.social Yeah. I enabled the bridge on this account but I make bluesky specific posts. The 300 character cap hits fast and my threads are a lot longer due to how many replies I have to make in comparison to here. This instance has the cap at 5,000 and I’m thinking about increasing that to 10,000 which is the limit for Reddit posts afaik.
@evan thread continues, I typed that much and then my ramen arrived lol
I was like "1600 yen for pork ramen? Isn't that a bit much?" And then it arrives and there's an entire actual pork chop in there
@evan When I'm reading, I hit similar issues with unequal verbs. Mastodon has two types of like and a richer mute. "Go to DMs" works different. Blocking via bridge will behave more like a mute than a block because I assume block status won't propagate. I use likes/favs as queues of things to boost, so it's actively to my benefit to have "bluesky likes" and "mastodon likes" segregated. Overall I see little benefit to working via bridge and many small frictions I wish to avoid.
@evan I also suspect that interacting with people— ie jumping into conversations— might work worse via bridge. I think the bridge doesn't see everything?
@evan The reason I mention "model" is I perceive some of these issues that keep me from being interested in the bridge may not be relevant to a user who uses one or both sites at a more basic level. I am being a "power user" and seeking to maximize my use of all UI verbs.