Hey, I wanted to ask someone who has probably more knowledge than me about it - what’s the difference about these two services? I know Mastodon has ActivityPub, so it works with Lemmy, and BlueSky has it’s own kind of federation, but does it even has anything to federate to?
I’m asking not which one is better, I’m searching logical argument for one or other. I’m obviously more leaning toward Mastodon since I’m here, but I wanted to give my friend, who is thinking about joining, some real arguments.
Well by all accounts it sounds fine now as its own community. The problems of everything riding on one main instance/set of maintainers would be a problem in the future.
Things have not always gone well on the Fediverse and Lemmy, but we have been able to get through these problems thanks to the safeguards of federation and open source. E.g. Feddit.de broke and the original owner was nowhere to be found, but feddit.org was able to succeed it.