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

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.

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."

ok, so a few months back i added my email to the waiting list.
i got my code today so signed up.
how is it within a few hours i have several followers that i have no connection with !?
i mean, i have done no promo.
is there something about this place that i have yet to understand, or is it cos the first thing i did was follow ned ?!

There's probably a bunch of possibilities, but most likely is that someone from those accounts is just friending other people's follower list. It's a little less mysterious when you follow an account that posts about something specific, like if you follow a Nat'l Park account and suddenly you have five new follower accounts that are into parks, travel, etc.

Did you post yet? There are a bunch of feeds of peoples first posts that real users glance at. If you didn’t post it’s probably just bots. The network is small enough that there are still accounts that follow spam every newly created account.

A super kind ilxor threw me an invite—right here on The Aorta, WXOR!

But a scammy scammer stoled it afores i could snag it, and ay, no way i’m axing y’all again. I can’t do with that nonsense and guilt.

But someday I’ll git there, an if i ask to follow u, pls folla back ha

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https://bsky.app/profile/restaurant-bot.bsky.social

lagoon, this not you?

lmao

Dorsey also confirmed that he is financially backing Nostr, another decentralized Twitter-like service popular among some crypto enthusiasts and run by an anonymous founder.

"Why does this censorship follow me wherever I go?"

“The name is an acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"

A measure of how large Bluesky is vs how large people think it is: how many of us have Defense Contractor Discourse on their timeline today?

Not on my timeline

Yes, a little bit. I don't know what's going on there at all.

not mine

80% of my tl is ned reposts so yeah it’s in there, idk the context tho (I know some prick works at the genocide factory just don’t know which one)

I have a very narrowly curated followers list that's primarily focused on music / music writing, with a bit of local politics mixed in.

So what I can see this morning seems *completely* on-brand for BlueSky, in that I have a few posts that reference "The Discourse" and "The Bad Thing" without specifying what the fuck they're actually talking about, and then a couple of references to war profiteering and genocide without naming names.

So... looks like most any other morning on BlueSky to me.

who is the war profiteer

not mine

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 16, 2024 9:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think i found some

ok i have tracked down the info idk who the person in question is https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city/post/3kuz7qqcftb2s

80% of my tl is ned reposts

Just living in yer head. :-D

Ahhhhhhhh so that’s what those subskeets were about

happy to say this story has not reached my timeline :)