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

How do you know that’s NOT Elizabeth Warren? You’re making some assumptions.

that is true

prob of interest to no one but

i have a new job. my first day was yesterday but i felt too stressed to announce. monday feels like waiting forever. might as well announce now? i joined @bluesky as a software engineer.

— danabramov.bsky.social (@dan_abramov) August 26, 2023

how do u know i'm not reese witherspoon hmm

that is interesting to me. that's a good move for bluesky.

clay, you are reesewithoutherspoon if anything

i need to spend some time looking in the mirror here

not sure if anyone else has encountered this, but on the desktop version (on chrome, i know, i suck), when i click "Home", it sometimes brings me home (shoutout for that) but just as often clicking Home brings me to a variety of other places, like the website i was visiting before bluesky, to my notifications page, or a profile that i had visited many clicks earlier.

hasn't happened to me. try really clearing your browser cache, there might be something stuck in localstorage.

i need to open the extensions settings in chrome and powerhose it tbh

feel like ive had similar things happen on mac-chrome, been chalking up some of the clumsiness to the fact that its built on top of a weird protocol, but havent really looked into it or thought it through as far as that making sense

think thats why they dont have video too, the protocol

just text would be best tho, no images no video

they should just focus on being the twitter clone with momentum ditch all the decentralized fediverse blockchain protocol stuff and copy pre-elon twitter as closely as possible

also the feed is weird. it shows me every single reply from an account i follow, even if they're just replying to a random account i don't follow. but at the same time sometimes it doesn't show threaded replies by the account i do follow to themself

For replies, go to settings, then click on home feed preferences. You can turn off seeing replies altogether, or you can adjust the slider to where it shows EVERY reply or, on the other end, replies with a minimum of 25 likes.

yeah but neither of those is desirable. i want to see replies between people i follow regardless of the number of likes. twitter had this right

Yeah, gotcha

other criticisms

- the word "skeet" has a vulgar connotation and is embarrassing to use in earnest. is tweet not up for grabs now? what's the legality here

- the logo is a photo of a blue sky with white clouds. way too literal. i was pronouncing it "blueski" in my head, sometimes playfully contracting it to just "bluesk" and laughing to myself. feel like they should go more in this direction. similar to how twitter dropped the bird stuff and "twitter" "tweet" took on more intrinsic meanings

- search don't seem to work very well and recommendations isn't very streamlined. thought it would be easy to re-populate my feed with people from twitter but it's annoying hard to find them, even after i've followed a bunch it's not recommending me everyone else

just click on lag∞n’s profile and follow who he’s following. easy

bsky tweets = bleats

just click on lag∞n’s profile and follow who he’s following. easy

― mh, Sunday, August 27, 2023 9:34 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

high level social strat

- the logo is a photo of a blue sky with white clouds. way too literal.

i like it

i miss CD-DOMs, they were the pop-up book of their day

lol yah i respect it

bring back seedy dom

ALSO ETHAN

(dont bring back dom tho)

looooool, skeet? and RESKEET?

has anyone at blueskeet ever heard of urbandictionary.com? lol

every single day is another day that goes by when bluesky.com called their tweets skeets

the users did it, because it was funny

the bluesky organization tried to make skeet not happen but that only made people lean into it iirc

its kind of perfect tbf

oh dang, it's a user initiative!

it's just funny because i see some people using it straightforwardly, like it doesn't mean cum. my mom, for many years and to this day, says "are you hung?" as shorthand for "are you hungry?". no one has ever had the heart to tell her, and it's way too late now. this reminds me of that :-o

my mom, for many years and to this day, says "are you hung?"

Well? ARE YOU?

she knows

my stock answer for so many years has been "yes, I'm hungry" or "no, I'm not hungry". she also refuses to break away from she and he, claims to not understand "they" and how it works, etc. sometimes life throws you a curveball and you just have to deal with a parent asking you if you have a boner in slang they she doesn't even understand

you should should try to steer her towards hungie reply yeah im hungie its fun she wants a fun way to say hungry

Wait I thought it meant well-endowed.

this is true! i have made a boner regarding hung

also lag00n otm, we need to divert her toward new fun words for being hungry

once you start with hungie you can also talk about being cranky and sweepy

sweepy

feelin' skeety iirc

I ask my cat if he’s hungy but only in the privacy of my own home

When my grandmother wanted to do something else than watching TV, she used to ask "Shall we have it off?".

here's my question about bluesky now: i hear dorsey doesn't even really support it, beyond having funded it at early stages he's now directed his interest toward Nostr. Who runs bluesky, and what is the revenue model?

it’s in the faq: https://blueskyweb.xyz/faq

Dan joining Bluesky was a deal at Meta.

they mad

Yeah. He also still has some good ideas. I feel like this is a good move. He was encumbered by React.