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

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.

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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

It’s usually a (to me) child with an avatar that looks like they failed an audition to get into Burning Man

I suspect the consumption is very passive now and people actively avoid non-algorithmic discovery which is wild to me. If I see something interesting I click through to someone’s feed to see what they’re about, see who other people follow, etc.

I can only think that few people do that because some huge accounts have a profile where it’s pure engagement farming.

i've seen almost no racism/circular site drama in my timeline, not sure why

the only thing that's stood out to me so far is that if i encounter a post by someone i don't know or haven't heard of, it's like 2-to-1 that poster is trans

the Discover feed had some interesting ideas over the weekend and kept recommending gaymers (guys wearing briefs posing in front of video game memorabilia) and furry artists

it seems to have swung back to a mix of people now

to be fair to bluesky, the being nice to people is ableist stuff still exists on twitter. there's no escpaing it.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-new-economics-of-twitter-outrage

On August 20th, a freelance writer named Bailey Herdé vented on Twitter about the agony of trying to make small talk with people who don’t reciprocate. “Sorry if this is rude or whatever but I really hate people who refuse to endure even the tiniest bits of small talk. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked up to a table at work and said ‘how are you doing today’ only to be met with complete silence and a blank stare.”

Herdé’s tweet has been shared over 5,000 times and I’m comfortable saying almost every single reply to it is bad. As podcaster Michael Hobbes wrote, “The platonic ideal of a Main Character tweet: A reasonable, low-stakes gripe about a relatable situation... and 10,000 people in the replies making up scenarios so they can call her a terrible person.” If you don’t feel like clicking over, the (incorrect) consensus was that Herdé was being ableist.

Oh I’m not at all saying it’s exclusive to Bluesky at all, just noting the ongoing phenomenon

Makes me miss the “fellas, does eating a hot dog make you gay” version of this

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the only thing that's stood out to me so far is that if i encounter a post by someone i don't know or haven't heard of, it's like 2-to-1 that poster is trans

I honestly like that!

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

The takeover continues.

i followed random resto bot but had to unfollow it 5 minutes later cause there are so few posts that 8/10 posts were restaurants lol. will follow it again once/if things pick up

Makes me miss the “fellas, does eating a hot dog make you gay” version of this

the Seeking Derangements podcast compiled a list of the ridiculous things people said make you gay on twitter and were running through it. one of the more long winded episodes but some funny bits

brb time to ride a bicycle to hot dog brunch

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get yr bluesky

i'm having trouble figuring out what to post on bluesky, which i think means i should probably not post. it's not an internet-wide issue for me; i feel fine posting here. i like to post.

i might eventually do little mini-stories or something? like evil guide dog but not as problematic? i don't know. what is the internet good for? why are we on this thing

I'm on @cannaregio. I am following Ned and no one else for the moment.

you should just leave it there tbh! some things are just perfect from the get go

perhaps… too perfect

the Seeking Derangements podcast compiled a list of the ridiculous things people said make you gay on twitter and were running through it. one of the more long winded episodes but some funny bits

brb time to ride a bicycle to hot dog brunch

I dimly recall someone asserting that a man performing oral sex in a woman was gay? Did that happen or am I imagining it?

xpost Well that's hey wait

oh that 100% made the list

if you include the absolutely weird young republican edgelord types, then having sex with a woman if you are a straight man is gay

ooh there’s an old VSB list but there are definitely new additions to the canon since then: https://www.theroot.com/a-running-list-of-things-straight-men-cant-and-shouldnt-1827758710

that list doesn't even have the OG, "eat quiche"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Quichereilawjd.gif

recall being confused by this book as a child

I just learned that guy wrote the screenplay for "Tomorrow Never Dies" and co-wrote "The World Is Not Enough" (which is the most generic Bond title ever, I don't even remember what movie that was)

feel like quiche has kind of fallen out of the culture. do the children even know?

I don’t post very hard over there; but noticed a few ILX0rs, so I changed my handle to the obvious (if anyone’s interested in following).

If anyone's still on there...I'm on Bluesky as @every80spopsong.bsky.social (Casey Skeets-Em) posting on every 80s pop song that charted or was a pick in Billboard, Cash Box and/or Record World, chronologically.

Oh that’s you, hi!

does anyone need these still?

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another:

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I've seen reports that spammers are scraping the internet for invite codes, and doesn't look good if/when they get banned and you "invited" them - so would probably keep your codes for DMs.