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

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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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.

I'd never lower myself to ask for a fucking invite code and then get precious about who you are going to give them to. Ohh can't have any riff raff here. It's a site for snobby supercilious wankers - lol, even worse than this one!

aww

Haha, funny posts. To be fair to them though, it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of infrastructure for a site like Twitter/Bluesky to run – as it is whenever there is a flood of new people the site starts to stop loading posts etc.

Yeah, it is notably sluggish at the best of times.

Lotta placeholder accounts there right now with virtually no activity (including Tracer's, lol). I often can't tell if they are squatters trying to steal/scam the handle or legit mirrors of their twitter accounts.

I don't know anything about this app other than I agree it is pronounced like brewski

i'm still trying to "find my voice" josh

also need to settle on my bio, something like "Flâneur. Appreciator of gin. #fuck2017."

sulzberger doesnt have to pound on anything he does the hiring and firing

perhaps this impossibly leathery man . . . who is destroying public health in this country . . . could have been redeemed by committing adultery with a completely compromised journalist half his age (and vice versa)

let's not even get into 'wearing jeans at the gym'

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.

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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.