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

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

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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:

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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

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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.

So jklein04 AT gmail.com. Thanks again! (Looks like I couldn't DM you on twitter if I wanted to without twitter blue)

I just used the ilxmail interface

Can't even imagine regularly using the For You feed. Truly a nightmare scenario

mostly middle-aged scold types but a sprinkling of pretty young people where it was their first election and they don't know how to deal with their candidate not winning. life is about learning to take the L and move on to the next L

I'm deeply, obviously biased but yes. I fundamentally don't get being a doctrinaire centrist-liberal Democrat, but I get being an inflexibly annoying communist, or even like a dumbass libertarian ffs! fervently believing that we'd be living in utopia if Harris was pres, it's wild. [mh, you make a good point about the youth, they get a pass]

also, more parochially, I hate smug Liberal canadians on bsky, a really underrated loser demo

haha yeah high levels of delusions about canada being different than usa

think one thing with the blue maga types is they believe theyre doing a political project where most people are just there to goof off

if you think about how it's just the same tendency that exists on the right where politics is supposed to be boring, our problems are mostly solved and we just need a few little tweaks here and there, and major institutional change is scary, centrist liberals make sense. they just want the biggest news in politics to be Obama making a nice speech

you just donate to the local shelter or food pantry occasionally and kind of secretly know everyone that's not well-off is the victim of a recent political movement or must have done something wrong at some point and they have yet to find their bootstraps while enjoying the things in life you've rightfully earned

that was re: centrist liberals

Can't even imagine regularly using the For You feed. Truly a nightmare scenario

that's how I felt about Discover

xp you're both otm. some people think they're on 24/7GOTV and anyone dissenting from the Dem line is an active republican operative, and some are like "but Newsom is a Democrat and in the news, ergo he is infallible"

think one thing with the blue maga types is they believe theyre doing a political project where most people are just there to goof off

The Bluesky hard left are absolutely treating their bullshit like a day job (or a mission, at any rate).

theres one munchkin looking blue maga guy cant remember his name who is just so arrogant and dumb every time ive come across one of his posts half the replies are like this guy is the fucking worst but he does believe himself to be out there changing minds not sure how that works

xp sure, but they're now a smaller contingent than the blue wave that popped in after the 2024 election and bluesky allowing sign-ups without an invite, in my experience

the average hard-left person still seems to skew toward the tendency to yell at any journalist or writer who is not quite left enough which is embarrassing and they've got to lock that down

xp damn that's a mean way to describe stancil (lol)

heh get him

xp lol

agree w/all of this but thankfully I don't see much of it on the site

Lawdork (Chris Geidner) regularly can't take the constant "all is lost" do-nothing doomerism from the blue dogs as well as shit-take leftists who blame individual judges for not beaming the White House into jail...

He's gotten better about blocking/muting and not responding to each bad response though.

This was funny: https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3mecchc7cuk2q

http://bluesky-map.theo.io

I'm somewhere in the nether regions between Scottish Independence Advocates, Experimental Electronic Music & Sound Art, and the UK Vinyl and Music Community

Deleted my account lol

http://bluesky-map.theo.io🕸

I'm somewhere in the nether regions between Scottish Independence Advocates, Experimental Electronic Music & Sound Art, and the UK Vinyl and Music Community

This is such a lovely thing. I'm on the outskirts of the British Left-Wing Community, British Humour & Everyday Life and … UK Liberal Democrats (?!). Basic bitch.

Pretty happy with mine, in the interstices of:

Progressive American Internet Culture
Writers, Readers and Creators
New York Mets Fans

queer leftist artists & shitposters
weird internet left
american left wing media and comedy

clusters of critics a lil further away and two groupings of horror movie enthusiasts

what up with this neighborhood

https://i.postimg.cc/q7Pv4tVJ/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-7-23-49-AM.png

https://i.postimg.cc/JnFc157q/Screenshot-2026-02-09-at-7-29-15-AM.png

Adrià #República‬ laiesken.bsky.social‬

The catalan community in BlueSky is getting angry because we are labelled in a so-called "Spanish-speaking academics and intellectuals"

demand bluesky to formally endorse the catalunya independence movement fr

Theo Sanderson theo.io‬

I made it by fitting a recommendation-engine style model with dot products to predict the probability that a person X follows person Y with 128-dim dimensions for "following" and "followers" and then squishing the followers embeddings into 2D with various iterations of tSNE.

The only information used to place you on the map is that the types of people who follow you also follow other people in that area of the map.

The only information used to label the "clusters" is 30 profile bios randomly chosen from that cluster, which an LLM is asked to identify the commonalities in. So the name given to a cluster is not something that applies to everyone in it.

https://bsky.app/profile/theo.io/post/3mef27fozz22k

i found zach very close to me

I'm under "Experimental Electronic Music" even though 80% of what I post about is jazz or metal. And there doesn't seem to be a specific jazz cluster, so there must not be very many of us.

I'm right nearby towards the Electronic Music Producers & Technologists

I must not post enough to be included in the data set. oh well

same here

oh, I have logged out visibility disabled. it doesn’t include you if you have that toggled, which makes sense

Why is Bluesky so desperately horny?

Every other follower I get is a porn account

I don't get any

Progressive American Internet Culture
Writers, Readers and Creators
New York Mets Fans

― Tracer Hand, Monday, February 9, 2026

essentially the same lol

fwiw this is a fantastic annotation of the BB halftime show (and also it is really annoying how you have to click 'Read X more replies' countless times to read it all)

https://bsky.app/profile/beckyhammer.bsky.social/post/3meffq52d4k2h

theres one munchkin looking blue maga guy cant remember his name

― lag∞n, Friday, February 6, 2026 8:16 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y2llcscocbfrj3qnzvsjemdw/bafkreicued2v7o4wt6ldfi5cry347jnmdrlcpszyuheipsr3itenw7zmlm@jpeg

checks out, he's translated his height (148 centimeters) to binary