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

"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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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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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

Got it, thanks! Will start porting over twitter peeps and whatnot later today. Now I need to figure out how to change my ilxmail, lol.

yeah i don't want to post mine here because you're nominally repsonsible for who you invite and people get banned if their invites misbehave but i have a few. ilxmail me if you need one.

I'm not even sure how my ilxmail works. Is that just the address I used to originally sign up/register? My login ID? How do I change that without re-registering?

https://ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/editprofile.jsp ?

No, that didn't do it. When I send an email (to myself) through that portal, by clicking on my screen name, it just sends to my original login ID, which is an old email address. But when I try to change that old login address to a new login address, my current email, it logs me out, because it no longer matches the one associated with the password. Hmm.

The Bluesky killer

accounts like this are why I'm on the site

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

yeah that's an unimpeachable follow, good pace of posts, always nice to see

yeah consistently outrageous pictures on there, im suspicious of that account tho feel like they must just be pulling from reddit or w/e

I think they use google earth somehow

are there trailcams on google earth idk but the feed is so curated such peak trailcam captures that i dont think one person is just pouring through a firehose of trail cam pics

oh yeah it's super curated, I noticed at least one that was like a decade old. I assumed they're mining some tumblrs or yeah reddit

idk why that makes me suspicious of them its fine no one could find all those sick pics on their own but idk they should describe their process in their bio they could be anyone

they probably are using ai to analyze, or heavens forbid ai to make them up

just scrolled through it a little and a ton of them are dated in the 2010s

I enjoyed this one:

https://bsky.app/profile/goodtrailcams.bsky.social/post/3mjsk7kfxb22d

head of trust and safety going on a banning spree on everyone who has pointed out that he (probably erroneously) clicked 'like' on a barely legal porn post at one point is not great.

total clown show over there

also noticed via the mod emails people are sharing that bluesky has a four strikes and youre out policy, thats so bluesky to not know how many strikes is an out

sridhar who im sure many people are familiar with got banned for making the joke that mods are protected class and the mods were like yes we are

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:34ximvt6wmri6tpo7kytsmc2/bafkreig4nayxaew6pjfltjdlzcxeureuytakniszj6hwrnq5dyp6km2kla

shd also be noted that the head of trust and safety was liking posts by will stancil saying theres a gang of trans bullies roaming the site

sridhar is subtle enough that I have to think it through. excellent poster but not for everyone and that one was a+ for discerning audiences

I have met Sridhar in real life and he is sweet as pie and just as funny as one would expect tbh

aww, that’s cool to know

man i went to twitter for the first time in a while today and there were so many music people - smart people! - i loved following still posting there ... how do we get them to make the switch?

why do ppl list all their ailments in their bios

mumbling “don’t type it” to myself..

identity politics

why do ppl list all their ailments in their bios

it makes sense, we all used to pretend to be anonymous on the internet and people want others to know who they are so it doesn’t sound like you’re using someone else’s identity as a cudgel when they’re speaking from experience but hoo boy

Bluesky now asking me to add my birthdate to my account. Fine, sure, I'll do it. Except when I click "Add your birthdate," I get a "Failed to fetch" error. So now I'm basically locked out of my account. (Which may be for the best, but it's annoying.)

OK, it's working now. Weird thing is that my birthdate was already filled in, so I guess I already did this at some point? Whatever.

it’s glitching and their location detection probably picked up a cell tower or wifi that was misclassified as being in a different state. i’ve run into that on a few sites. if you have an apple device and have private relay turned on it can get kind of irritating

David Roberts

A response: https://www.garbageday.email/p/safe-and-cozy-in-your-doomsday-bunker

I don’t think the media and political elites on X are necessarily being “dragged” to the right. And don’t our comrades from the British Isles always tell us there are plenty of leftists on X?

if only we had stayed on twitter and kept yelling at dem think tank workers trump would be dead by now

ugggh that makes my media studies brain twitch

"I need people on the busiest site to placate my ego" is exactly what got us into this situation to begin with. Positive or negative, against your views or for them, you can find very vocal groups online that has no sense of practicality or publish sphere compromise because their entire bit is yelling their demands constantly. If you can't triangulate a stance or stable approach that's not "the least people yell at me, the most people praise me" based purely on social media comments, you're already unhinged.

some columnist getting yelled at for two days online isn't the same as civilians getting bombed but you'd really be hard pressed to find a difference in some people's coverage

I don’t think the media and political elites on X are necessarily being “dragged” to the right.

I suspect that David Roberts, a former Vox writer who has a newsletter and a podcast that focus largely on energy and environmental policy, may have felt like his ideas were more influential when he was on a platform populated by a lot of media and political insiders. And he likely feels that those insiders who have stayed on Twitter are now paying more attention to right-wingers (because that's who Twitter promotes) and less attention to left-wingers (because many have left Twitter entirely). Once upon a time, Beltway reporters and congressional staffers were retweeting David Roberts; now they're retweeting Richard Hanania.

A lot of people have made the point that text-based social media is niche and not the most efficient way to have broad, popular influence in 2026, which is true. However, because a lot of those media and political insiders *are* on Twitter, it still probably does have an outsized influence on elite thought, which has various trickle-down effects.