“It’s not functionally different from Twitter in any appreciable way anymore! If you say that’s not your experience then then you’re just using it often enough, and not in the right way!”

In my experience Mastodon gets a pass because most people who care about it enough to still use it are those who basically just really really really believe in it, and are perfectly fine with its particular way of working.

Again, I’m absolutely willing to believe that Bluesky is awesome, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s not available to 99% of people out there. Maybe 98%. All I know is that the only person I followed on Twitter who got on Bluesky is a semi big name (big name in a particular subsegment of a mainly Anglophone…

Dude, if you still don't get it, it's your problem not mine. Go on enjoy Mastodon, just don't be surprised if your evangelism falls on deaf ears

Too little, too late, it would seem.

...my friend, this is what I wrote:

I signed up for a Bluesky invite the moment the option became available. That was how many months ago? And I not only haven’t received an invite yet, I didn’t even receive a stupid automatic “your address was registered” confirmation email! After waiting for a couple of months I thought OK, maybe there was a bug or…

I mean you could read what I wrote, multiple times... 

If only Bluesky was available to us plebs.

Somehow I doubt it changed a lot since last November, and at the time it didn’t work “just like Twitter”, also I didn’t say it was “dead”, I said it was a ghost town as far as I’m concerned. I also linked an entire editorial that described what has been the same as my experience as well. But whatever, if you like it,…

You did read what I wrote, right? I signed up to Mastodon YEARS AGO. I drifted off because it was cumbersome to use and literally nobody I actually wanted to follow was there. (Sorry, I don’t care about George Takei or Mark Ruffalo...’s PR staff, all that much. My interests lie elsewhere.) I dusted it off last year,…

I mean, there’s always the option of being a bit less greedy when it comes to user data... but I know that tantamounts to a utopia. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, it’s not. I tried it years ago - it was clunky, cumbersome and a ghost town. I tried it again last year - it was still clunky, still cumbersome, and still a ghost town. Here’s something that may sound weird to some people: most people prefer an easy, user-friendly experience over “FEDERATED NETWORK!!11!1"

And users in the EU are apparently out of luck, for now.

I haven’t seen Bluesky yet (because 4 months after applying for an invitation I still haven’t received one, not even an automatic “thank you for registering” email) but I imagine anything that’s more user-friendly and less overall cumbersome to use than Mastodon would be more attractive.

I’m willing to believe that Bluesky is awesome (regardless of it being run by... Jack Dorsey...) but I signed up to the waiting list four months or so ago, and since then I didn’t even receive an automated “we received your registration” email, let alone an actual invitation. So.

Oh I don’t know, maybe...

If no tips result in excessive/unreasonable price hike then people will just stop using those services and then the prices will have to go down in order to get customers again. Sure it may not happen overnight but that’s pretty much how these things work.

That prepackaged POS system has a simple check box that you can enable or disable the tip and alter the suggested tip amounts.

Until business owners are forced to pay their workers a livable wage, it’s on us. Is that unfortunate? Yes. That’s the societal structure that we have, though.