For Microblogging so far I’ve used Mastodon because it seems to have the most feature complete apps from what I’ve seen (Megalodon and Tusky are both good). For the most part they interface together, I follow people on Misskey.

While it’s got a good amount of activity I don’t use it as much as Lemmy since the advantage here is that things are sorted into communities so it’s easier to find good content. You can follow tags on Mastodon, but because it has no real algorithm and the “toots” are less substantial than Lemmy submissions I find that you get a lot of banal status updates. It also has to compete with Bluesky which has more name recognition being made by ex-Twitterites that also draws more users away from it. If you can find good people to follow it’s good but I think we’re still waiting on a critical mass of people to move from the former site.

Megalodon, though I do like Tusky as well

Hashtags dump a bunch of stuff into my feed that I just don’t care about. I just want a good way to sort search results by something other than chronological order so it’s easier to find people to follow, a chronological timeline is fine as long as I can choose what shows up there

Gotcha, still new to Fediverse stuff so not sure how all of it works.

I don’t doubt they know things the devs of Mastodon don’t, and from the ways the winds are blowing they seem like the next big bet. But their priorities with Bluesky seem like they’re in the wrong place. The fact that virtually everything is public (including things like blocklists) makes me worry about the future of privacy on the platform. Though I have the same issues with Threads given that it’s run by Meta with its eternal quest to doxx all their users.

Twitter’s original founder is crazy though, that’s not really an upside. And Bluesky’s underlying technology just feels like a worse version of Mastodon, the only reason people are going to it is because the names behind it are recognizable and it doesn’t ask you to choose a server

It would be nice to have clients that could merge several communities for convenience, but ultimately I don’t think this is that big of a problem. People will generally gravitate towards the largest community and that will take over as the default. And even on Reddit there would still be splinter communities for people who didn’t like the direction of the main community, sometimes even overtaking the old subreddit