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since Mastodon already exists, one can assume the users who make Bluesky a primary posting location will specifically select for people who are some combination of:
all of which seem like they will contribute to a particularly awful user culture in addition to the flaws in the platform and its government
literally the only thing i will say in bluesky's favour is that its undeserved clout and lack of moderation has resulted in seeing screenshots of people I hate getting clowned on
this is extremely ungenerous and ignores a lot of the motivations, you're bordering on constructing a strawman.
at bare minimum one of the things that bounced me off mastodon was the lack of a supported first party mobile app when I first got on. then finding someone who isn't on your local genuinely sucked. some of these things may have been fixed since but I'm tech savvy and I really did try and these points of friction just stopped me from going back...
but honestly I think people are going because famous people are going. whatever your feelings are on that as a motivator aside, that's literally the thing that makes like half of the cool shit that happened on twitter when it wasn't like peak neo-nazi days work. hell this is a backing premise of SwiftOnSecurity's account; you post mostly thoughtfully and knowledgeably about a thing, people who are big in your domain will notice, follow, and then interesting conversations happen as a result and you don't have to research every claim people in your mentions make because the fucking former director of JPL is in the thread
I think there's another big cohort you're potentially missing: people who literally just want twitter.
as much as mastodon is twitter, the decentralization makes some things significantly different. and as much as bluesky is supporting decentralization, everyone who's joining it right now is treating it as a single platform, from what I can tell. and the people I see leaving would never have left for mastodon because of the decentralization.
i mean, fair enough that their moderation story is really, really lacking, but even among people who know it's going to be badly managed, i think you've missed that there's a significant group of people who know that, and also value a unified, twitter-like platform more than they value that platform's management.
I guess you could say that falls under "ambivalent about platform mismanagement", but I think that saying it that way completely discounts the other reasons that one might want to use it. platform management is not the only variable here.
going to a platform that's trying to sell itself as decentralized because they're looking for centralization certainly says something about those users
well, at least it's not twitter
unfortunately, it is, in fact, literally "twitter: EEE edition"
