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There's something about Bluesky I just don't quite like. I have an account, sometimes (rarely) I use it. But for example today I wanted to share a short video with a friend. I send him the link - "only logged in users can see this post (OP himself set this option)" ok, weird but let me download the vid and send him - "nope can't do that"
They literally added some frontend bullshit to not allow you to download a freaking video. When you Inspect it with developer tools it shows a button... If you try saving it with right clicking it will save the thumbnail instead... I know there are probably easy-ish workarounds but this sort of instagram closedness pisses me off.
Meanwhile in Mastodon I right click and save video as....
I also don't like the underlying complexity of how decentralization is supposed to work there. That being said, if the choice is between twitter, threads or bluesky, please use bluesky.
I prefer Mastodon, though.