My guess is either people are downgrading, or enough people are dropping Windows entirely after previously using Windows 11 (whether by switching to Mac or Linux, or by deciding that they don’t need laptops at all and can get by with just an iPad or something) to affect the percentages.

Yes, although the protocol is already open, which I think mitigates the risk slightly. Bluesky is also organized as a public benefit corp, which mitigates the risk almost not at all but is interesting. If Bluesky begins to go the way of Twitter, other corporations or entities can make interoperable replacements easily. That was not so for Twitter.

But in general, yes. This is the same song but a different verse. People have been so blinded by the brokenness of the internet as it is now that an interoperable protocol doesn’t make any sense to them.

I just wish this was a native function of one or both platforms. What a feather in Bluesky’s cap to say that they’re interoperable with Threads, for instance.

In order to get a similar experience to Twitter, you need to follow a lot more people on Mastodon than you did on Twitter, because you never get that algorithmic backfill (and, in fairness, because there are fewer people using it).

Even if it does preserve your momentum, with some really good trigonometry, you could teleport to a location that would result in that momentum landing you softly and exactly at the top of a cliff. If you can redirect the momentum, it can be any cliff. If you can’t, you’ll have to choose a cliff in another part of the world so that gravity burns off all your inertia at just the right time.

• There are a lot of people on it, it doesn’t feel empty like I have often found Mastadon.

Mastodon isn’t empty. People just have to follow folks to actually get any content. Now, Bluesky definitely does the onboarding better in that regard, but this almost certainly comes down to people not knowing that they have to follow accounts to get content.