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

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

mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 13:34 (one year ago) link

bsky tweets = bleats

The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 27 August 2023 13:47 (one year ago) link

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

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link


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


The splash screen you get when you open the app on the same theme is bafflingly hokey. It's like something from a 1997 CD-ROM.

Alba, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link

i like it

mark s, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link

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

mark s, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:06 (one year ago) link

lol yah i respect it

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link

bring back seedy dom

nashwan, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:16 (one year ago) link

ALSO ETHAN

mark s, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link

(dont bring back dom tho)

mark s, Sunday, 27 August 2023 14:20 (one year ago) link

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

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:04 (one year ago) link

the users did it, because it was funny

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:06 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link

its kind of perfect tbf

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link

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

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link

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

Well? ARE YOU?

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link

she knows

mark s, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link

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

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link

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

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link

Wait I thought it meant well-endowed.

Alba, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:24 (one year ago) link

this is true! i have made a boner regarding hung

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link

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

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link

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

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:36 (one year ago) link

sweepy

feelin' skeety iirc

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:37 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link

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

Alba, Sunday, 27 August 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link

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?

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link

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

mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link

Dan joining Bluesky was a deal at Meta.

Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link

they mad

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link

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

Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:46 (one year ago) link

i will miss him explaining react on twitter

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:53 (one year ago) link

tho he kinda stopped after people got mad at server components, which is too bad

lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 18:56 (one year ago) link

the bluesky app icon/logo is good.

has the fact that there is no verification and people can use the names of public figures been an issue yet? I just saw Elizabeth Warren post "my pussy hurts". this is all fun for now but obv at some point someone is going to raise a stink.

there is verification. you make your handle your domain, which is only possible if you control the domain, e.g. you can only set your username to https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov if you control ron wyden's senate.gov domain.
so when the real reese witherspoon joins she can have reesewitherspoon.com.

i'm skeptical of their "moderation? oh that's nothing to do with us. we're just building a protocol" approach to a lot of stuff, but this approach to verification is really good. it requires essentially no resources from them and it's less open to the stupidity associated with blue checks on twitter (before and after musk).

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 00:31 (one year ago) link

i'm the real reese witherspoon

Clay, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:41 (one year ago) link

its true, i vouch for clay-reese

lag∞n, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:46 (one year ago) link

If you use your own domain does it still use bsky's servers? The thing I hated about Mastodon was the seperate servers - it was really hard to find/communicate with siloed people on all these diff servers. And then the one I'd picked, shut down unnanounced one day and I lost my login/account. Not that I'd really used it.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 28 August 2023 01:39 (one year ago) link

bsky isn't federated yet, so there's no jumping between servers for anyone there. Not really sure of the pros and cons of using my own domain at this point, but I imagine if I ever need to know why there will be oodles of explainers out there.

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Monday, 28 August 2023 02:34 (one year ago) link

one feature of twitter i wish they'd copy: hover over the username to get basic info/bio/followers

i really like that!! (z_tbd), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link

oh ffs I thought twitter stopped that feature a long time ago, but I just discovered that it only stopped working in Firefox and not my other browsers.

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link

bsky-social-xhecp-hvuie

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 05:20 (one year ago) link

Thanks calz. I am here: @quartzcity.bsky.social

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 07:53 (one year ago) link

got ya!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 08:03 (one year ago) link

I’m on there now @scampo sorry for making up those fake codes earlier — here’s a real one: bsky-social-p8tiy-gjwpo

Grandall Flange (wins), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link

not going near that tbh

mark s, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link

Why would you, you don’t need a code

Grandall Flange (wins), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link

ha elvis i didn't get that quartzcity is you til now-- enjoyed the hell out that podcast ep, still am

you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 23:20 (one year ago) link

the amount of weird drama I somehow see on a daily basis on bluesky boggles the mind. I think some of these people are some of the same people I had to unfollow on twitter or something a while ago, just non-stop allegations of racism and ableism back and forth all day long, impossible to follow.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 22:40 (one year ago) link

I've blocked enough folks who are clearly tools, others have gone, essentially I only see a couple of things about it now so it's all somewhat calmer for me on the feed at this point.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link

Geez all I'm seeing on here so far is a lot of Ned posts!

...sorry Ned but its true :P

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 30 August 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link


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