Mastadonians are being total sore losers , they're so proud that they're actually decentralized and self hosted (even tho most users are on mastadon.social)

IMO bluesky being a clone of Twitter in its UX means that you're going to get the same social dynamics, just a different group in charge of moderation decisions.

Bluesky is supposed to offer a different architecture of allowing users to decide what they see via shared blocklists and labeling services, but they still regularly ban right wingers, trolls, and griefers from having an identifier on their servers, and since there's no one hosting an alternate appview, it's Pretty Damned Centralized (tm) for the time being.

>they're so proud that they're actually decentralized and self hosted (even tho most users are on mastadon.social)

Sorry, is any of that supposed to be wrong? People who use a decentralised platform aren't going to be fans of a new, mostly-centralised platform, I don't see how that's being sore losers. I also don't think most people on the Fediverse expect mainstream adoption any time soon, and many don't want it either.

Does Bluesky manipulate one’s feed or does it let it be based on the user’s subscriptions’ posts posted in reverse chronological order, filtered by the user’s preferences? Like Mastodon does?

I don't see one or the other as having won or lost. I don't know anyone on bsky and various people on Mastodon, also before joining Mastodon about a year ago, but hear bsky is bigger on the whole. Probably a regional thing, and part of what I seek on this type of platform is local people and news. Heard of an open day of the Effelsberg radio telescope for example, which was a really nice experience and I'm not sure by what other means I could have learned of it (following all places of interest in a large radius separately perhaps? How would discovery of new places work?). It simply fulfills its purpose for me rather than being a "total sore loser"

I also really enjoy the inclusivity features like content warnings, filters, and alt texts. Didn't know I'd want these but it has been super nice around the USA election period, or when videos don't load on mobile data you can just read the text and know whether to bother with further attempts. Dunno if bsky has feature parity there or if people make use of it. My Mastodon instance in particular is quite... I don't want to say strict, but there's a good culture about it

Somehow the tone of your first paragraph doesn't match the content of the other two. They make it seem like the Mastodonians are pretty much Right™

> they still regularly ban right wingers

No. There are plenty of conservatives on Bluesky and Threads.

They get banned when they cross the line and start being deliberately antagonistic.