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Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics (www.japantimes.co.jp)
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[–] discimus@mander.xyz 74 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Seems to be mainly because Bluesky is just a better user experience.

Changes in terms of service regarding AI (artificial intelligence), changes in the block feature and the presence of so many bot-like ‘impression zombie’ accounts are viewed negatively by Japanese users

But, X is still incredibly important in Japan and Bluesky isnt a serious threat to it culturally right now.

X is still a major, major news source for Japanese users, so it really won't slow down anytime soon. Newer platforms like Threads or Bluesky really don't have any meaningful adoption or use for brand marketing in Japan — yet

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

Anecdotally, a lot moved to Insta or maintain both xitter and insta, but yeah, there's no real inertia to move and, outside of otaku circles, it seems that mastodon and the fediverse are basically unknown.

[–] win95@lemmy.zip 71 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've been on bluesky for a while (over a year). My (leftist) bubble was complaining about how boring it was for the longest time. Now I keep seeing people complaining about the influx of the "new" people joining. And here I am complaining about the complainers. Oh, to be a human on the internet.

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention Misskey. It's a Federated platform that connects with Mastodon and the like, and has close to a million users. After Mastodon it's the most active platform in the Fediverse, and owes most of its popularity to Japanese users.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

Not surprising, they are trying to redirect people on bluesky not on the fediverse

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I saw a lot of bizarre shit from there through my federated Mastodon instance…

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

what do you mean reasons other than us politics? do other kinds of reasons even exist?

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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.

I mean, don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answers to, I suppose.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don't really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can't leave FB/IG/Reddit because 'that's where all the cool kids are'. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.

Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that's ballsy.

Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose "Home" feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don't hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I'd be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I'm good there, too).

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[–] wandermind@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cool, how do we convinced the Masto devs of this apparent fact?

[–] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

We tried. They ignore the vast majority of feedback given to them.

The Mastodon user experience really needed to be simplified greatly to attract Twitter users, because what's a platform without other users on it to connect to? At this point I feel as if they may have blown their chance.

[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

anything specific you can call out for those of us who have zero interest in moving to another centralized platform?

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Cuz believe it or not, people tend to use microblogging platforms to connect with others in a specific niche, and mastodon currently doesnt have the userbase to host an account focused on most niches.

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[–] nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 months ago

More bluesy ads?

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I’m curious to see what gets promoted in Japan. BlueSky’s discover feed in the US is fairly politics-heavy right now since a lot of the new users have been fleeing X’s MAGA swamp.

I have no problem with political posts, but I’m hungry for some more organic variety. If I want variety I have to put in a lot of manual work to find people and topics to follow.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It’s similar in JP.

The discover feed isn’t anywhere near the “for you feed” on X, so the experience isn’t super personalised and gravitates towards us politics, as that’s the most popular thing on the platform (similarly to lemmy).

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Lemmy /all is basically memes, tits, and articles about crazy Trump shit.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

I don't have an account there.

My discover feed in a browser with English was some generic memes and jokes, something about Drake's music, some comments on netflix and movies, etc.

My discover feed in a browser with Japanese set as the main language was some of the same, photography, anime drawings, and probably about half of the literal same posts (in English) as above. This could, I guess, be related to other sites I have visited or cookies or something.

[–] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I would love to see more Japanese moving over to Bluesky. I've effectively moved there, but can't really leave Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese game devs there, and they don't have a strong reason to leave like Americans do.

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