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

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

Thanks!

welcome :)

if anybody needs one just DM me on slack or twitter, I've got 5

will do ASAP, I'm stuck somewhere else right now. are you easy to find on Twitter?

yeah I'm @smashedmcdouble

or I can just ilxmail you if yours works josh

that would be great, thanks! I am pretty sure my Gmail address is in my profile.

yeah today is the first time I've run across issues in many many months.

sorry, it broke almost immediately after I posted for the first time so I expect it's my fault

also baby's first downdetector https://downdetector.com/status/bluesky🕸/

Looks like a more widespread problem on the East Coast -- allegedly a fiber got cut.

Anyway, both The Cure and Robert Smith officially joined Bluesky today:

https://bsky.app/profile/thecure.com

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

and here come the bots, too - I've had half a dozen follow today

Genuinely hard to tell what's a bot and what's a new user who hasn't bothered to add in any info, I'm finding.

I'm @causticcovercritic.bsky.social mainly talking about books

Or https://bsky.app/profile/causticcovercritic.bsky.social even.

I just joined bluesky and started following you Ned, but jeez, you have put up almost 12,000 posts already?

For me it's about finding people I want to follow, since I don't really post.

It's going to be painful to transfer from twitter/x. I have done a lot of work to curate my feed there to include just accounts I really like hearing from (authors, musicians, artists, writers, science and weather and medical nerds, friends, articulate people angry about politics who I feel aligned with, legitimate reporters who I don't currently hate etc). It's easy to block trolls and ads that you don't like

I'm not going to give twitter up in the near future, I like it too much. I will just maybe see who among the people I like to follow is moving over there permanently and see whether or not there will end up being a critical mass.

A lot of my favorite accounts have already left twitter, but I have no idea where they went, they didn't all go to bluesky.

So I started curating my Bluesky account while the election was in full swing so I have a lot of political stuff popping up in my feed and now I hate it and never want to see it again until at some point I'll want to see it again.

Can I mute posts by keyword and later remove it? I don't want to unfollow all of those accounts because in 3.5 years I might want to see what's going on but for now I'm jitter scrolling, trying not to look at anything about our current hellscape.

xpost I’ve been there since June 2023!

Still, in my entire 16 years on twitter, I only had about 21K tweets. You're already at half that in a bit over 1 year lol.

I've also been on bsky since June 2023 and I have 900 posts.

You've got the poster's disease.

Can I mute posts by keyword and later remove it?

Yes. I have muted the incoming president's last name and it's been very helpful. I may start muting RFK, Gaetz, and other words I don't feel like reading.

Oh man, that was easy. Bliss.

You've got the poster's disease.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, November 14, 2024 8:45 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Age 14, they got you down on your knees
So polite, we're busy still saying please

Dear me.

Surely Ned's post count is mostly all the reposts he's doing tbf :P

(not a jab, just an observation!)

Ned’s Bluesky = Ned’s Bandcamp collection

All part of my plan

Ned's Atomic Postbin

"It's going to be painful to transfer from twitter/x. I have done a lot of work to curate my feed there to include just accounts I really like hearing from (authors, musicians, artists, writers, science and weather and medical nerds, friends, articulate people angry about politics who I feel aligned with, legitimate reporters who I don't currently hate etc). It's easy to block trolls and ads that you don't like"

Same. I wouldn't say its painful but its worth just having a Blue Sky account. Every time there has been a 'migration' I just look and add a few more and refine just in case there is a collapse in twitter. Otherwise the follower/ing count is slightly down from Americans moving but there is more than enough left.

"It's going to be painful to transfer from twitter/x. I have done a lot of work to curate my feed there to include just accounts I really like hearing from (authors, musicians, artists, writers, science and weather and medical nerds, friends, articulate people angry about politics who I feel aligned with, legitimate reporters who I don't currently hate etc). It's easy to block trolls and ads that you don't like"

Same. I wouldn't say its painful but its worth just having a Blue Sky account. Every time there has been a 'migration' I just look and add a few more and refine just in case there is a collapse in twitter. Otherwise the follower/ing count is slightly down from Americans moving but there is more than enough left.

Also if Bsky are blocking Palestinians its going to be similar shit. There is no escaping it.

It's easy to block trolls and ads that you don't like

The ads are easy to ignore but the time they made Temu unhideable did try my patience!

Yglesias is posting again after being bullied off at the start :-(

Also they need to add that Twitter feature that allows you to follow an account but turn off their reposts.

how about this

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tenurhgjptubkk5zf5qhi3og/feed/only-posts

otm, I have a couple people I like muted because they repost way too much. that's cool Tracer, but it's nowhere near widespread enough of a problem for me to switch to that

That feature is available under following feed preferences. You can choose to show only posts, not reposts or replies.

What's the deal with reposting? Why do that? Is it like playing the hits?

Talking about when people repost themselves.

It's sort of an embarrassing thing to do, but I did it on Twitter in two situations: 1) That tweet from this morning didn't do the numbers I expected, maybe I'll post it later on today or tomorrow to see if it will take off. 2) That tweet I posted a few weeks/months/years ago is newly relevant, so I'll add it to the current discourse.

tracer i dig that only-posts thing. upon use i find that my mostly unused and def un-curated bsky follow list is like 20 ilxors that's it. lol. but y'all are the best, i need to add more. i will never have time or inclination to curate social shit like that. as a result going to the all posts mode is great, it's like i exist in an ilxor socials biome. don't steer me wrong people.

Taylor Lorenz on her Substack re Bluesky:

As I’ve said many times on my podcast Power User, Meta’s overly aggressive blunt moderation systems, its decision to down rank and shadow ban journalists and anyone who speaks about social justice issues, and it's total unwillingness to act as a home for real-time information, means it will never truly occupy the space that Twitter once was.

For now, Bluesky seems to be the winner, but what it really won was a declining user base of people who, as Intercept journalist Sam Biddle put it, have "theater kid energy" and "the vibes of an RA trying to organize a dorm activity"

Is there even a point to embracing a new text-based posting app in 2024 when, as Biddle notes, all Bluesky users are really doing is posting to a niche social network that no one really sees in an effort to “basically LARP using Twitter?

Ultimately, I agree with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick who wrote: “[Bluesky] still doesn’t feel like a one-stop shop for the kinds of memes or news stories that Twitter was in its heyday or TikTok is now. In other words, it doesn’t feel quite ready to be the main artery of the internet. And some of its most passionate super users, many of which are burned out Twitter refugees who decamped for a quieter network, don’t seem to really want that to happen ever.”

Taylor Lorenz on her Substack re Bluesky:

As I’ve said many times on my podcast Power User, Meta’s overly aggressive blunt moderation systems, its decision to down rank and shadow ban journalists and anyone who speaks about social justice issues, and it's total unwillingness to act as a home for real-time information, means it will never truly occupy the space that Twitter once was.

For now, Bluesky seems to be the winner, but what it really won was a declining user base of people who, as Intercept journalist Sam Biddle put it, have "theater kid energy" and "the vibes of an RA trying to organize a dorm activity"

Is there even a point to embracing a new text-based posting app in 2024 when, as Biddle notes, all Bluesky users are really doing is posting to a niche social network that no one really sees in an effort to “basically LARP using Twitter?

Ultimately, I agree with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick who wrote: “[Bluesky] still doesn’t feel like a one-stop shop for the kinds of memes or news stories that Twitter was in its heyday or TikTok is now. In other words, it doesn’t feel quite ready to be the main artery of the internet. And some of its most passionate super users, many of which are burned out Twitter refugees who decamped for a quieter network, don’t seem to really want that to happen ever.”

That feature is available under following feed preferences. You can choose to show only posts, not reposts or replies.

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, November 15, 2024 10:19 AM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

that affects all users. I only want to mute retweets from some users.

For now, Bluesky seems to be the winner, but what it really won was a declining user base of people who, as Intercept journalist Sam Biddle put it, have "theater kid energy" and "the vibes of an RA trying to organize a dorm activity"

the theater kid energy group was at its peak in the month or so when I arrived (50% those people and TPOT refugees, 50% trans shitposters). and then it mostly went away.

unfortunately she's wrong that it's gone. it's back right now because of the arrival of resistance accounts that pretend to be jack smith and the cromulent fuckstubble gen x types.

but I think she's right that Bluesky won, or at least it beat threads.

where did she say it was gone?

I don't currently follow anyone, but when I look at the discover feed, it's rife with those kinds of resistance/blue wave accounts: mueller she wrote, angry staffer, george takei, molly jong-fast, seth fucking abramson.

oh, I read "declining user base" to mean that those folks were declining their use of Twitter, but it's not really clear