🌶️ Fedi hot take 🌶️
I saw several toots posted in the past 24 hours that said: "yeah, Bluesky was down, but the same thing could have happened to mastodon.social, home of 15% of accounts on the Fediverse."
You know what I did when mastodon.social went down? (I remember it happened a couple of months ago during a routine upgrade)
Well, when the INSTANCE mastodon.social went down, I simply switched to my GoToSocial account and checked out from there what people were posting. Maybe I even logged onto my Pixelfed account.
People on Bluesky couldn't do something like that because Bluesky is FULLY CENTRALIZED.
You can't compare apples and oranges.
End of my hot take sorry if I have offended friends who are super enthusiastic about Bluesky, but I can't just politely nod and stay silent. Bluesky enthusiasts, please read up about the fable of the Scorpion and the Frog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
I want the Open Social Web to succeed... but I will always give the side eye to Bluesky and Threads. Sorry not sorry.
On a more positive note: I just wrote about some new projects I'll start soon to promote the Fediverse: https://elenarossini.com/2025/04/my-fedi-activism-q2-2025-edition/