Bluesky an' clear: the social media app that will definitely last forever

The only social media app I like is the one where people talk endlessly about the other social media apps I don't like and am not on

Still to use my code.

lol, that's maybe the smartest way to bluesky

sell it on ebay

I'm @rooob.bsky.social btw, not that I post really

rhymes with brewski

another for the pro column

Anyone who pronounces it like that around me is going to get a restraining order.

ello

Bluesguy

not a bad idea, Eazy

Folks, you're all doing it wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-36ijwAQUs

So if someone were to try to extract user data from this new service, would that be

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/MidnightOil_BlueSkyMining.jpg

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

what a world

abolitionism starts here

Bluesky: It died in Beta

"seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform."

Just joined 😂

ha i thought that would catch your eye.

leadership here is as sus as threads or twitter. like jack, they seem to share a lot of intellectual heritage with thiel, although i'm sure they'd deny it (60s bay area libertarianism, girard, etc.) but with burning man and shitposting (as an alibi for race wierdness) and some weird fash-adjacent stuff about nature.

grasscist

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 July 2023 19:17 (one hour ago) link

tbh this is very funny

dril's second skeet was good: "im going on a posting strike from here until the.y make every one not racist or whatever"

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j.

someone normal should make an app imo

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j🕸.

lmao the mods are being called out and people are snitch tagging the investors on ... linkedin!

no

i mean someone else can, but i can't be bothered to be honest. no offence. it's very silly.

its all fun and games til you bring the beef to linkedin

ahh brilliant, hide it where no one will look

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 14, 2023 3:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

'scuse me, while I diss bluesky.

Not a screenshot but: the post is from a bsky team technical advisor that says “Some of that Blue.” with a photo of a blue sky with which is just not remotely helpful.

To you, no. If you consider that some people reading might be colour-blind, though...

I almost went back to LiveJournal after seeing my posts from the 2000s and missing writing in paraphernalia, and then I found it was owned by Russians and…subject to Russian law.

(Also am in Bluesky and it feels like me and Albini and Parton Oswalt hanging out in a Delta Skylounge.)

Xp: ha well they did include an alt text so that’s good

TIL blueski was (probably) a pun

Holy SHIT you are not ready for this pic.twitter.com/1wMD4Jq9Kp

— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) July 14, 2023

Bluesguy

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, July 14, 2023 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists

i was @lebronjames on ello

in case anyone wants an invite code

bsky-social-ufxqd-dszmo
bsky-social-2biwx-cqxgy

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

both taken

I'm on there now as chants.bsky.social. Haven't found very many people to follow on there, idk.

"I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists"

the app still exists, so I assume the network does (I think I wound up deleting it, but I would occasionaly open it up as recently as a year ago and see just random images). Confusingly Ello is also now the name of a more high profile reading app that has nothing to do with old Ello.

If anyone wants to follow me on there I’m matthewbalaam.bsky.social - I won’t post much except the odd link to a radioshow or gig probably.

bluesky cant hope to compete with twitter until they get video so you can watch the cop eat shit on the slide

Have atthem:

bsky-social-w77g6-ysjch
bsky-social-zsizl-emv5i
bsky-social-efm3v-h6eeh
bsky-social-7ch5w-6blgf

Thanks!

thanks!

or is it a throwback to the early 20th century simplified spelling movement that replaced cks with x thereby giving us the famous baseball teams red sox and white sox

My best friend does only one thing that slightly annoys me and it is: using thx or thanx.

thx is good for when youre not thankful enough to type all the letters

Exactly why it annoys! Spend the damned letters!

k

never know when you might need those letters

I guess writing folx instead of folks is the equivalent of putting an “In this house we believe…” sign in your lawn.

I think there’s a very small subset of people who can pull off casual socially-inclusive language and of course one of the long-form definition pages is from what appears to be a consultancy group?

the kind of word use that makes sense within defined spaces but when it breaks containment it’s either in corporate training explaining the terms, but not explaining why hr should not use them in your fortune 500 company’s internal newsletter. or the local hippie coffee shop that keeps posting “folx” as a greeting on facebook while doing obvious wage theft

feel like podcaster michael hobbes has mentioned on one of his pod gigs how he used to do hr consulting type stuff and how badly constructed a lot of that shit is

broken.

Thank you The Guardian for kicking off indoor/outdoor cat discourse once again, now I cannot go on bluesky for a day or two, I hope you're happy.

jesus christ people are screeching assholes about people who let their cats outside

Ugh as an indoor/outdoor cat owner I gave up on having that argument, I just stay away.

A cat came by yesterday and was sitting on our outdoor furniture (fine, we don't use it) and then killed a squirrel in our backyard (not fine at all; I found the tail and head in the grass this morning). It's definitely not auditioning us as a host family, though; when we opened the door to chastise it for killing the squirrel, it ran away instantly.

didn't realize Ken White abandoned his account

Aaron Rodricks response this morning to threats made to trans people should disqualify him from ever having a job again the rest of his life.

these people are so dishonest they end up seeming very stupid and weird

Who is Aaron Rodricks?

Aaron Rodericks is the head of trust and safety at bluesky. I don't know what akm is referring to though

i can't spell first thing in the morning

I mean, bluesky is still run by Silicon Valley mutants just less virulent than X the everything app

feel like a key thing to understand is that no one wants to do moderation because its actually too expensive they want to automate it, then the other thing is they want to say shitty things without a bunch of people telling them its shitty cause thats dogpiling

dogpiling is pretty easy to identify via automation, saying a shitty thing isnt

I got dogpilled and lost my job, but now applying for the FBI

akm is referring to this thread:

https://bsky.app/profile/aaron.bsky.team/post/3mvobdemx6v25

can I threaten bigots with concentration camps?

Katelyn Burns posted "I hope the Bluesky Devs enjoy the camps" to test this out

but really, bsky's moderation is incoherent and messy and that's in large part due to who they hired to run Trust and Safety, the man is a fuckwit

I have the offending poster blocked and the restatement of “context” is somewhat useless

I shut down my account yesterday, as well as Reddit. No more social media for me. Bluesky was fine, but in the end it just gave me a lot of small things to get upset about and I'm tired of the endless scrolling outrage apps. I actually wrote a letter (paper and pen!) to a friend today.

Wrote a what to a what?

Lmao. If only I had some paper…and an actual monkeysphere friend.

Kudos to Cow_Art tho!

…But did Bluesky actually improve their algorithm slightly? Has my incessant bitching truly accomplished something? I’ve been on a whining campaign in their reports for months now!

I so rarely look at any feed on bsky besides "following" that I have no clue how good or bad the algorithm is there.

same

I so want there to be more. It has potential but I’m just not seeing it yet.

When Twitter kicked off I never would have thought it would be the best forum for sharing music, but then it was. Such a loss.

find some feeds that are good? discovery was and may still be garbage, I unpinned it eons ago. their are other filtered/algorithmic feeds that are decent but discovery of them could be better. lists are also a good avenue

I think my basic bitch defaults are Following -> Popular With Friends -> Quiet Posters

Is Quiet Posters a feed? The whole feed thing is so clunky tbh. It was mentioned to me as a selling point early on then when I finally got around to trying out the app it was like “THIS is what you were talking about? …Oh.”

I’m mainly interested in fairly niche topics but if there’s anything focused on literature, film, art (that isn’t mainly for self-promotion) I’d appreciate any recommendations for feeds to check out.

had to mute the live tapes account lest it overwhelm my feed with 100+ posts per day : /

find some feeds that are good? discovery was and may still be garbage, I unpinned it eons ago. their are other filtered/algorithmic feeds that are decent but discovery of them could be better. lists are also a good avenue

― mh, Friday, 18 September 2026 04:59 (six hours ago)

It's now very easy to create your own one using a prompt at https://attie.ai (when it says to log in using your Atmosphere login, it just means your Bluesky one).

Lots of people use the For You feed which shows you posts similar to posts you have liked. https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.bsky.social/feed/for-you

yeah I use that one bc I don't follow people. although my logic behind not following people was that I didn't want a feed to mindlessly scroll, and For You gives me one that is pretty good. so I end up mindlessly scrolling a lot anyway.

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v3n5wr27y6flohaycmcgsrij/bafkreicjvs22qr6fvcxt7hmav6cjcvjga7wsobc5eu4khu42j6hxjnz3ei

It's now very easy to create your own one using a prompt at https://attie.ai (when it says to log in using your Atmosphere login, it just means your Bluesky one).

RIP feed – people who have died

I only used Following and I enjoyed the Bluesky experience as far as scrolling social media goes. I’m just exhausted from hot takes and beefs and the constant cataloguing of atrocities. There was a lot of positive stuff too. I guess the real problem for me is the tone and nature of online discourse which isn’t really new. I’m tired of it.

yeah I feel you on that

https://i.ibb.co/F4j2JFKY/file-00000000c26881f5931436bf3a5da06c.png

haa

A semantic map of what people have been talking about on Bluesky in the past week

https://atlas.jazco.dev/