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

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:

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bsky-social-efm3v-h6eeh
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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

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."

uh, sure

if you can remember 2020 you weren’t really there, man

my question was more general, and not specific to Hong’s tweet(?)

As far as I’m aware, folx was never meant to be about gender neutrality and it was never meant to replace or improve on the word folks. It was meant to be a coded way to communicate “folks like us” among people with radical politics who defy gender and sexual norms.

https://radicalcopyeditor.com/2016/09/12/folx/

Folks is already a gender-neutral term, but changing the spelling of the word brings a visible sign of inclusion of Black, Asian, Latine, Indigenous, Queer, Trans and other minoritized communities that have been historically excluded from mainstream usage of folks.

Folx' is not just a word; it is a recognition of diverse experiences and a conscious acknowledgement of identities that may otherwise feel unacknowledged or invisible. In its core, folx signifies a more inclusive spectrum of identities, affirming their existence and relevance within our societal discourse. In other words, when people, workplaces and other entities use the word folx, they want to be intentional towards embracing a broader, more radical inclusivity.

https://www.queerspacecollective.org/post/challenging-the-norms-for-radical-inclusivity-unpacking-folks-and-folx-from-a-queer-intersectional

ngl this kind of stuff, while worthy and comes from good intentions, makes me roll my eyes.

In this age of texting and net-speak 'folx' seems harmless and unexceptional, just another little nose-thumb at the world of standard orthography in a world overflowing with such stuff. It seems far too timid a gesture to carry all the weight it's being asked to carry in that declaration from queerspacecollective.org.

I prefer ‘folxors’

xpost that last quote feels extremely AI-generated to me

the queerspacecollective one to be clear

In its core, folx signifies a more inclusive spectrum of identities, affirming their existence and relevance within our societal discourse

people who write and think this kind of stuff are not, in my experience, tolerant at all in their actually lived lives.

whats going on there are we degendering words that arent gendered

or is it a throwback to the early 20th century simplified spelling movement that replaced cks with x thereby giving us the famous baseball teams red sox and white sox

My best friend does only one thing that slightly annoys me and it is: using thx or thanx.

thx is good for when youre not thankful enough to type all the letters

Exactly why it annoys! Spend the damned letters!

k

never know when you might need those letters

I guess writing folx instead of folks is the equivalent of putting an “In this house we believe…” sign in your lawn.

I think there’s a very small subset of people who can pull off casual socially-inclusive language and of course one of the long-form definition pages is from what appears to be a consultancy group?

the kind of word use that makes sense within defined spaces but when it breaks containment it’s either in corporate training explaining the terms, but not explaining why hr should not use them in your fortune 500 company’s internal newsletter. or the local hippie coffee shop that keeps posting “folx” as a greeting on facebook while doing obvious wage theft

feel like podcaster michael hobbes has mentioned on one of his pod gigs how he used to do hr consulting type stuff and how badly constructed a lot of that shit is

broken.