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

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!

Voilà

bsky-social-jl33a-obpxg
bsky-social-q5c6l-q6owc

amazing to indulge the outlandish idea that nuzzi fell in love with kennedy

or found him attractive or even just not repulsive

she retreated into isolation in LOS ANGELES, often typing passages for HER NEW BOOK into her phone whilst HIKING

a true hero's journey, no wonder the NYT wants to highlight her

admittedly getting away from the bluesky topic at hand but ffs NYT

a failed social climber goes hiking dont you see

Lagoon are you suggesting she is not head over heels in love with the walking ham hock

who wouldnt fall for a roided out bag of leather who keeps roadkill in his car and has the most fucked up voice youve ever heard

The funniest thing about that story to me was that the reporter went to Kara Swisher for damning quotes. Kara Swisher, the proto-Nuzzi! She's done so many 180s on interview subjects (You're a genius, and I was the first person to say so! Wait, your stock price is dropping... you're an idiot, and I was the first person to say so!) that she must have ball bearings in her spine. I guarantee that with a half hour's research I could find Swisher saying something insanely flattering about Nuzzi, probably calling her a "badass" or something similarly stupid.

I forgot to put the last line in my Spiers opinion: she posted about 60% too much about it. Could have stopped a lot earlier

I had exactly one Nuzzi interaction on facebook over a decade ago where I said she shouldn’t have written a dumb article and it turns out we were friends-of-friends and she popped in to scold me. Good times. I think her entire vision of access-style journalism is shmoozing and writing really gloopy articles about what it’s like to be hanging off of the interviewee’s arm. Her prose is very purple and dumb, if fun, for people thinking it’s more useful to be salacious than to have a positive impact on society

someone had a social media post (bsky?) about living near kennedys that was something like “you smile and nod in public but you don’t hang out with them, you don’t babysit for them, you don’t party with them, and you definitely don’t have sex with them. ted was probably the best one and he killed a woman in a car” and that has stuck with me. just a chaotic, starfucker, insane family line

chotiner follow-up: "say more. he looks like a pile of tanned nutsacks"

don't ever knock this website to me https://bsky.app/profile/justahousewife.bsky.social/post/3m65etkgdjs2b

that post has the juice

no idea if it’s actually Talib Kweli, but an account under his name who posts like him is beefing with Will Stancil
I’m going to ignore it all and read a roundup later

if you want to beef with someone for a month, just book TK for a festival and cut his sound after his set was scheduled to end. or just, do anything at all, really

Been checking this app out for the first time mainly in hopes of doing some low effort mingling with fellow music dorks minus the drama.

__

i'm on bsky some, but overall it just feels like a hollow attempt to recreate a phenomenon that's come and gone

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 November 2025 22:46

That seems to sum it up nicely. Factoring in the crypto creep connection it hardly looks worth going any further with it.

I’d like to say it reflects the death of text-based communication (outside of a few niche special interest forums populated mainly by grumpy boomers). But then maybe it’s just late stage capitalism annihilating everything that’s worthwhile and good?

Guess Reddit’s still going strong so if your business model is using SEI manipulation to lure a bunch of feckless noobs to your alt right recruitment platform which you cover for with intelligent-seeming but often very wrong bullshit churned out by AI bots then pip pip.

SEO

It depends what you want to use it for. A ton of academics have switched to bluesky,so if you want to follow what's going on in certain fields, it can be a good place to go.

I follow loads of good non-bro tech and nerdy types on Bluesky, but so far I’ve not found too much good music talk.

Jay Babcock & Byron Coley are good follows

The Tonearm is good...

stancil throwing a fit demanding the banishment of his many enemies

https://i.postimg.cc/L6tX8vMg/Screenshot-2025-12-21-at-7-29-04-PM.png

stancil barely disguising his horniness for Cait by dressing it up as outrage

excellent thread

https://bsky.app/profile/musicologyduck.bsky.social/post/3mct2lipzqc2p

Musicologyduck's good people so yeah this was especially crazy to read!

I had just watched a tv show that had a clip from the movie Speed in it right before reading that thread!

I assumed it was some extended analogy about the Bluesky leadership and then after a bit I was like "oh, hey this is actually happening?"

‪Tim Onion‬
✧@bencoll✧✧✧.b✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧‬
· 2h
This was the point in the bus thread where I started to wonder if it was a metaphor for this present moment in time.

People are really excited about a Bluesky thread that reminds them of classic Twitter. Like, "You wanna hear a story about how me and this bus here fell out? It's kinda long, but it's full of suspense."

Story might be even better than the one a friend told about the time he was on the Chicago <-> Omaha Megabus route and, after most of the passengers had assumed the driver was just fighting the wind on a blustery day, the cops pulled the bus over and it was determined the driver was intoxicated

I don't know what I'd do on a bus where every passenger was sure that they were on one route and the driver insisted they were wrong. Bizarre scenario.

xp I mean yeah, we left Twitter because it went to shit, not because it was as good as ever

yall keep posting links to threads we can't read because you need to be logged in...

Perhaps a fair complaint on other threads, but ... this IS the Bluesky thread.

bluesky accounts are free

I created and immediately closed a Threads account the week it started, and I've been off X for about a year and a half now and every once in a while it strikes me, like it did today, that even if Bluesky has good days and bad days it still never has ads. It's like the ilx of social media.

ad-free online conversation is a very unique thing in 2026

i had a similar experience ~25 years ago -- peter pan bus from DC to pittsburgh but the driver took off south toward richmond. i had to guide him around the beltway to I-270

also re: bluesky, i like that WAFR account that posts record release date anniversaries, but i *really* don't need them all reposted every two hours ffs

bluesky accounts are free

how about not posting shit that some of us can’t see because we’re not addicted to social media

Threads about social media, otoh...

https://bsky.app/profile/friendo.bsky.social/post/3mcxq6th4bc2p

_Threads about social media, otoh..._

Smdh can we puhleeze get a mute function on this non-social media platform roffle

Relevant bsky question (and I won’t deny I’m in the grips of multiple addictions):

Is there no way when replying to a reply — sorry if my terminology is off — to select which accounts you ping?

Like I want to reply directly to a reply to a top tweet but I don’t want the top poster to get notified most likely cause I’m just trolling the trolls again…

Eg https://bsky.app/profile/hivemind.bsky.social/post/3mcxtpvs6s22t

Go ahead mock my username I don’t mind

^shitpost /notroll

how about not posting shit that some of us can’t see because we’re not addicted to social media

― a tv star not a dirty computer man (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 January 2026 bookmarkflaglink

This has never been a social media free space, so what you have or don't shouldn't be our problem.

Viborg the killfile works as a mute function.