How is that regulated?

Diaspora, too, but I’m not sure how active that project is nowadays.

Bluesky is more popular because it has VC money behind it.

That isn’t a conspiracy theory. That was, in fact, the original plan. Jack Dorsey explicitly stated this from the outset. However, due to reasons (Wikipedia doesn’t go into specifics), the project lead decided to make Bluesky independent from Twitter. When Musk bought Twitter, he severed all ties.

I think you need to curate your feeds better. My experience doesn’t match yours.

most people won’t want to bother learning what an instance is or what federation means.

What have you seen that convinced you of this? Has this been studied?

When you sign up with Bluesky, it gives you the choice to sign up with the big main server or with an auxiliary server. Just like Lemmy does.

The problem is that when Lemmy got hit with a big influx of users, the main server couldn’t handle the load, so they quit accepting new users. This confused and upset a lot of people, because now they had to go shopping for another instance to apply to, and many of the bigger ones weren’t accepting new users, either, because of the same problem. This was a crucial moment for the adoption of the platform, and the infrastructure just wasn’t there to handle it.

What does this mean? “Good” how?

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