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

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!

all taken (not by me, alas)

I’m on there, easy enough to find.

I've got to keep an eye out for the next invite dump!

the Molly Shah kerfuffle has been amusing, and also somewhat horrifying how credulous and easily manipulated some people are

care to summarize? idk who this person is

I'd seen her posting around twitter/bluesky before, but she's mostly known for in some way verifying whether Palestinians on bsky asking for donations are legit and boosting their requests. whether this verification is reasonable is under fire

two recent things popped off: a number of scammers pretending to be in Gaza grifting in replies that the bsky team has addressed by, questionably in some circles, suspending accounts or adding spam labels. the second is that a lawyer quoted one of her posts about sending money to people with bank accounts in countries that would more easily get the aid to Gazans and said that it'd be a good way to get arrested for federal financial crimes

my own evaluation is that I have no strong opinions on any of this

Yeah I mean I appreciate that Bluesky-ers are friendly to mutual aid requests and the like but the possibility of scamming when it’s online (and not local mutual aid) is high.

The issue with Shah is that she was explicitly laying out a scheme that would subject anyone who followed it to criminal penalties, and then said "oh i don't do this myself, I have boundaries". she also seems to have no real background in anything...she's a freelance writer an 'social media consultant' who left the US and moved to Berlin. Some people were saying she was a lawyer; that doesn't appear to be true. Her name is now being used by every alleged Gaza account asking for money, saying they are 'verified by Molly Shah'. I don't know how she is 'verifying' anyone.

http://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did%3Aplc%3A623st67kkthivj4c6icvkqnq/bafkreiayebaxloleek6inrjvi6k6hnp6vcgqubxdlpzpneen5fokxfudv4@jpeg

hoo boy

oof

and of course when actual lawyers pointed out that what shah was advocating was an extremely bad idea that would lead to people being debanked and facing federal prison sentences, well-meaning idiots got extremely angry at them and accused them of calling all palestinians terrorists etc.

shah also bizarrely threatened to sue people for defamation for telling her this was a bad idea

I doubt anyone’s going to get rolled up on for throwing a few bucks to a gofundme, but who knows in this political climate?

having read and listened to some coverage of what happened in the Holy Land Foundation case, I think there are some chilling possibilities

no one claimed that donating to gofundmes is a legal risk (although it's been pointed out that many unfortunately appear to be obvious scams) but shah was actively recruiting people to be the receivers for donations which is a gigantic legal risk

yeah, I didn’t mean to imply gofundme was inherently a risk, other than some well-meaning commenters thinking gofundme does any sort of vetting

the people coordinating donations, any financial transactions that obviously will fall under scrutiny like wiring money to italy in order for an intermediary to send money… I’d be very cautious

My Bsky feed this morning:

Cat pic
Dog pic
1990 unknown cassette-only darkwave song
Photo of sky
Peter Capaldi meme
Pic of coin with a tomoe on it
Someone I don't really know (but who I probably follow on bsky) preparing for a job interview
Gavin Newsom
Otter video
Cat pic
Photo of sky
Photo of sky
Photo of sky
Ugly meme memorializing Alan Turing
Insta reel of Black men dancing

...I think once I reached Turing Bsky just started throwing random Content at me

The interesting thing is that I don't own pets and I'm not really interested in pictures of other people's pets. I guess "pet pictures" has just become a synecdoche for "hey, if you're feeling bad, here's something you can feel good about". Those segments they used to do at the end of the news, you know, for people who couldn't take the constant drumbeat of awful things. "And now, the lighter side!" It didn't work for me then and it doesn't work for me now. I kind of feel the same way about pictures of the sky. The sky's right outside. I just walked outside and checked. It's still there. I'm not Anne Frank. I can go outside and even walk around. I actually just bought a deck chair so I can spend more time outside. The sky is nice. The air is nice.

The plus side is that I didn't see any really traumatic, triggering content. I do get triggered pretty easily, but looking at Gavin Newsom doesn't trigger me. It's a definite improvement over past social media experiences I've had. There's not the sudden mood whiplash that past social media evoked.

I just... I have no idea what's going on right now. Pictures of videos and animals are all well and good, but I'm... _genuinely optimistic_, in a _practical_ sense. And I don't know how to express that. I don't know how to live that.

See OK this is weird, I made a vaguepost about current events and now I'm getting a bunch of political stuff. Including, uh, Paula Poundstone? W-what? Why?

what feed are you using?

Are you using “Popular with Friends “ or some other feed rather than “Following” ?

Mark Cuban is complaining on Bluesky that while Bluesky may have less racists than X, that Bluesky posters are mean

https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3lr4op5zib22q

Mother Jones contributor Stephanie Mencimer wrote a fluff piece on a MAGA Trump supporter, and got nasty profane comments on Bluesky, and has now tweeted “ This is why I am still on twitter. Bluesky is no refuge.”

On twitter someone responded: This is why I'm still on twitter, where the post linking my Nazi fluff piece has generated exactly one (1) engagement, which itself comes with a well-deserved content warning

centrist melts complaining on bsky abt ppl being mean on bsky just feel like ppl who have humiliation kinks (which i think is core to centrism tbh, like if "both sides" are yelling at me that means i have good politics)

WHAT KIND OF "UTOPIA" IS THIS WHERE NAZIS AREN'T WELCOME?!?!

https://bsky.app/profile/cait.bsky.social/post/3lrj5ghfrqk2z

Since the NBA season ended last night, here's my self indulgent take on where Sports Bluesky is atm. The TLDR is that crappy Resistance accounts are working like antibodies to flush casual sports ppl off this platform and the devs should address this if they actually want sports to take off here.

Some person named Velodus who has 15 thousand followers is unhappy that some people are being mean to casual sports fans on Bluesky

Calling the kind of "Resistance" accounts he's describing "people" feels overly generous.

it's actually a real problem, related to the Discovery feed

‪lauren‬
✧@lau✧✧✧.rotatingsandwic✧✧✧.c✧✧‬
· 2h
cosign, fixing the discover feed would go a long way toward fixing the problems of scolds paradropping into your replies when you're trying to talk about the god damn mets or whatever

I was going to remove the Discovery feed entirely but I keep it way on the far right side so it’s the last feed. I can scroll over there when I need to know what the #bluecrew is up to. #ripbrittneyanddonk

Bluesky is absolutely fucking awful.

needs more snrub

mr. snrub otm

I never did twitter so it suits me just fine, lots of solar/tech stuff plus actual good political posters, and lots of blocking

chronological feed ftw

Bluesky is what you make it. If your feed sucks, it's because you've followed a bunch of bad accounts. Unfollow them and do better.

otm

Muted words is good but need to mute entire phrases like 'I don't know who needs to hear this'.

^ another remembered post that didn't originally send ha

lol I support that

what feed are you using?

― rob, Friday, June 13, 2025 4:06 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Are you using “Popular with Friends “ or some other feed rather than “Following” ?

― curmudgeon, Friday, June 13, 2025 4:16 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

no one ever answers this question, either on Bsky or, apparently, in this very thread.

The only time you need to use discover is when a topic is trending, as with Minnesota assassination topic.

centrist melts complaining on bsky abt ppl being mean on bsky just feel like ppl who have humiliation kinks (which i think is core to centrism tbh, like if "both sides" are yelling at me that means i have good politics)

― petey, pablo & mary (m bison)

fuck off, my humiliation kink is leftist praxis

no one ever answers this question, either on Bsky or, apparently, in this very thread.

― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm)

i didn't answer the question because i didn't check this thread for a week lol

ok i am an old and i didn't know you could switch between "popular with friends" and "following". i like bsky but sometimes it feels like the linux of social networking sites.

fuck off, my humiliation kink is leftist praxis

hahahaha

(i might be misreading tone, just to be sure, my post was not directed @ u at all kate)

I wish you could mute/block accounts based on having a blue wave emoji in their profile, then it would be perfect.

using a social media platform like Twitter/Bluesky during a televised sporting event that many people are watching is one of the truly great uses of a platform like this ... *if* there are enough sports people on it.

if Bluesky is doing something to keep sports fans away, that's a mistake. they should be actively courting the leagues, writers/personalities, meme accounts, etc.

i guarantee you there are millions of people who would like to bail on Twitter but don't because of the sports presence.

many xposts

also, please please please let us turn off retweets from individuals

hahahaha

(i might be misreading tone, just to be sure, my post was not directed @ u at all kate)

― petey, pablo & mary (m bison)

nah, you got it, that was mock-outrage :)

also, please please please let us turn off retweets from individuals

yes yes

I hate it here

https://www.engadget.com/social-media/bluesky-is-adding-age-verification-features-for-users-in-the-uk-195753332.html

It's not just Bluesky of course

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903