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!

baseball posts are just like a background white noise to me, i don't even need to mute them

it is funny how the leftists are political posting Monday Thru Saturday bit on Sunday in NFL season it’s all reacting to games in real time and time to
mute.

just endless contextless one word skeets of “no!” or “whoah!” or “I think he’s dead”

I think the baseball content drives me away from these sites completely. Like what the fuck is so interesting about baseball? It was boring 40 years ago, and it's boring today.

you have to know all the pitches

baseball is like math rock, see

i like baseball :(

PK's got two more strikes left

comments on like, a clip of jason tatum making a shot, all of them with this tone

“Welcome back, Mr Tatum. It’s good to see you, sir.”

the only good comments on the internet are under Bob Seger songs on youtube, "I had my first kiss to this song in 1978, I wonder whatever happened to Sandy" etc etc

I like Discover (and Popular with Friends). I don't follow enough people for my Following tab to be that lively and I don't find myself inclined to change that. But yes, replies are typically bad.

xpost There are sad Youtube comments under song that came out in 2019.

Founding CEO ousted, venture capitalist taking over: start the countdown clock, Bluesky is done.

The funniest thing about intra-Bluesky discourse is I literally never see anyone speculate as to how it's going to make money. I assume that's about to change

here's the article which is far less doomy

https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/

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

their interim leader is a guy named Toni and the ceo who is stepping out is a woman named Jay

I do appreciate the inadvertent efforts to make it easy to see who didn't read the bios when writing articles

Jay was not a great CEO. I mean I guess she launched the site to that is commendable, but she consistently stepping in shit when talking to users on the site who cared about certain things, her 'waffles' post being the nadir. dunno if she was 'forced out', she was a blockchain person before she got there, it's not like she was some underdog.

The funniest thing about intra-Bluesky discourse is I literally never see anyone speculate as to how it's going to make money. I assume that's about to change

I'd be happy to pay a monthly fee. Yeah, bring it on.

she seemed like kind of a de facto ceo after the site/app popped off after it was mostly an experimental also-run experiment as a twitter protocol replacement/sidebar

I have no idea why any of these people working on it interact with the public about Bluesky as an entity or its policies. My assumption has been that they just didn't have a lot of budget allocation for community interaction/management

Swiss Toni

more info

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps down
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-steps-down/

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down from the top leadership position and transitioning to a new role as chief innovation officer, the company announced Monday.

Graber, who has helped grow the X and Threads competitor to 43 million users and furthered the development of its underlying AT Protocol, will be replaced by Toni Schneider as interim CEO. Schneider, the former CEO of Automattic and a partner at True Ventures, will serve as interim CEO.

Toni Schneider background was at Automattic (owners of WordPress software)

Automattic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automattic

I think he's the ceo they brought back when the original Matt guy went nuts in about three different ways

Lantian "Jay" Graber

ok

Coming Off the Bench for Bluesky
March 9, 2026

by Toni Schneider
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-coming-off-the-bench-for-bluesky

My discover feed mostly shows people I actually follow, and my 'following' feed, I'm 100% positive, does not show me absolutely everything in chronological order. It does, however, show me lots of reposted posts. It's kind of annoying. I'll click over to 'discover' and see things by people I follow that I swear never showed up on 'following'.

I'd recommend "Quiet Posters" for catching up on stuff from people you follow that got lost in the shuffle

<3 n8 but is he having a manic episode or

not sure I know who that is

ooh never mind, the insomnia posting is still going on with who I suspect you’re talking about

still low-key alarming tbh

now thoroughly alarming and idk what more to do about it

https://bsky.app/profile/natepatrin.bsky.social

looks like Ned talked him down <3

key labeller to subscribe to for detection of grifters, people with posters madness etc. https://bsky.app/profile/stechlab-labels.bsky.social

yeah those are the only labels i subscribe to

not all of them obvs but some of them

actually now that i look at it i am subscribed to all of them except Profile changes often: more than 3 days in last 30 days

3 times isnt that many

oh im subscribed to this one too https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2dnldc4omasiothhuqbmosyx

idk why sometimes bluesky gives you the secret url instead of the descriptive one https://bsky.app/profile/harpersletter.fyi

yeah n8's posts made me raise an eyebrow, but I assumed it was referencing something I was unaware of...

Reality Winner is having a massive antisemitic meltdown on bluesky. Has she been like this?

i had to unfollow our guy xp

xp I had to unfollow her a while ago, but I missed that

it appears reality... is losing

i had to unfollow our guy xp

Mute for me.

that labeller caek posted is kind of revelatory, esp the no breaks one, yeesh

xxp my unfollow was not about winner, but n8, just to be clear

xp to Rob yeah "no breaks" makes sense if it's like Al Jazeera or the Ursula LeGuin bot, but it it's supposed to be an individual account I kinda flag it

yeah n8 seems to be on a manic spree

looks like someone managed to talk RW down which is also good

https://bsky.app/profile/purplechrain.bsky.social/post/3mhjbwzee6s2r