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

- 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.

i will miss him explaining react on twitter

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

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).

i'm the real reese witherspoon

its true, i vouch for clay-reese

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.

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.

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

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.

bsky-social-xhecp-hvuie

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

got ya!

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

not going near that tbh

Why would you, you don’t need a code

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

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'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.

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

...sorry Ned but its true :P

But yeah people who are Chronically Online esp on Twitter/Tumblr and are obsessed with calling everyone out, are just tiresome and honestly toxic to genuine causes. I'm not interested in that kind of discourse at all.

I just mute or block anyone obsessed with circular site drama.

I think that’s the big issue, up until the advent of widespread twitter use (and post-weird twitter) the better intersections were about something. Talking about something you made, wrote, read, or listened to. The just posts, no content thing came up later and was people doing a bit, but getting marginalized if you did it poorly

Without things to react to, people just feed off of attention and drama. And they’re apparently on discords specifically for crafting posts?

Every now and then I come across someone who is like “being nice to people is ableist” and the number of people co-signing them makes me want to hurl myself into the sun