Pamasich

what the primary difference is between Mastadon and Bluesky?

Mastodon is in the fediverse (like Lemmy, which you’re using), while Bluesky is not.

It’s also way older than Bluesky (2016 vs 2023). So recency bias might have played a role.

It seems like bluesky is gaining much more traction than mastadon ever did, based solely on how I literally hear nothing about it ever. If I am wrong on mastadon not being widely adopted, do tell, I am genuinely asking.

You’re not wrong at all there. Mastodon currently only has 886k monthly active users, while Bluesky is in the millions despite its much shorter lifetime.

The fediverse is just unpopular in general. Mastodon is the most popular fediverse platform though, Lemmy has only 48k monthly active users.

Yeah, I did check fedia.io with the intention of mentioning their score there too, but imo the difference between 25584 and 25332 is too miniscule for that.

Huh, I assume that only appears while logged in then. Since I checked your profile on your home instance before writing that comment and didn’t see anything (and still don’t).

It does indeed seem to not be a thing even on all Lemmy instances, as my lemm.ee account (which runs the same version as lemmy.zip) doesn’t have such a number displayed anywhere.

25332

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.

Not sure what you mean with “if it is the same as for me”, considering you’re on Lemmy which doesn’t have a feature like this.

But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn’t the sum of either of those.

Lemmy doesn’t, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.

The instance I’m on tells me your karma is 462.

Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.