Focusing on protocol and decentralisation is putting the cart before the horse. The reason why Twitter, and Reddit in particular work so well is because of sub-communities that form organically. More importantly, discovery was part of the value in using it. It's why every Mastodon community specific to one niche/subject is not very interesting, people are not one single interest, we follow someone we like for one reason, maybe it's they make cool art, then we find out they also make music too, then bam, you discover a new genre of music and the community around it. Decentralisation actively introduces friction into the most rewarding loop of the entire thing. Centralisation isn't the problem, it's just comorbid with shitty governance.

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phoronixrly 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> The reason why Twitter, and Reddit in particular work so well is because of sub-communities that form organically.

Which sub-communities are on Twitter right now?

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tikhonj 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There are a lot of small, informal and fuzzy communities around specific interests in Twitter. For example, I routinely run into the same folks talking about some specific areas in PL/FP or in complex systems/resilience engineering. These sub-communities aren't clearly delineated like a subreddit, rather they arise organically through the same set of people following each other or, at least, consistently appearing in each others' feeds and conversations.

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throwaway85825 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems like most of Japan.

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verdverm 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Japanese is the second most used language on Bluesky

https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.d...

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esbranson 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Is the same algorithmic connectivity with Japanese happening on Bluesky as it is on Twitter, or are Bluesky's algorithms just as opaque as Twitter's?

	▲	verdverm 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure myself, however in atproto you can fetch all the data and do analytics, love it or hate it.

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acheong08 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Utaite. Will find barely any anywhere else. Thankfully if you're in one of those sub-communities, you don't ever get recommended anything political or American.

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verdverm 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Discord is my goto choice for communities now, but I fear that company is not on a great trajectory either. It's like voting, you're picking for the least evil

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skrtskrt 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nazis, groypers, Christian Nationalists