Don’t vote for another glow squid
I was close to leaving. At first I’d been given the impression that “liberal” is a dirty word on Lemmy. It helps that PSAs like this one routinely appear on other instances to inform newcomers. Just keep spreading the knowledge and let it be known that everybody should block those communities.
A big one for me is that you can tweak the priority of specific domains. in my case I hate Fandom but I don’t want to block it entirely, so I lower it and raise the other wikis I’d rather see first. I also have every Pinterest domain blocked, which would be very tedious to do with search engine operators.
It’s in a more or less acceptable state now and I play it, but it sure doesn’t live up to the original 10 year live service promise.
I’ll speak about my experience. Bluesky feels like an upgrade to Twitter. There are many algorithmic feeds to choose from, and it’s easy to discover people to follow. Mastodon, on the other hand, is a straight downgrade from Bluesky because it is lacking in those features.
I imagine a lot of people leaving Twitter feel similarly. They don’t care much about privacy or federation. Bluesky just works, and that’s what matters to them.
Whoever is responsible for this deserves hot, wet pillows, scratchy blankets and lumpy mattresses for life.