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

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.

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.

who do we follow on bluesky?

everybody cool follows tracerhand iirc

thats right

I'm not nominally responsible enough to give a fuck about this platform or any of the people on it, anything online where you need invites to access it is for wankers, apart from private torrent sites - I don't make the rules.

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.