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

As a Discourse- and Take-avoider, I find that Bluesky has very little "use case" for me... I religiously avoid the general feeds... I follow a few folks from here, and have found a handful of other accounts to follow (mainly by browsing the Newskies feed, and filtering through all the furr1es, "titillating" selfies, and anime art); and engage in light music discussion via other feeds. But I could also never visit it, and not feel like I'm missing anything.

yeah I'm with you and ums too. I find checking in on it every now and then can be momentarily distracting, but as it grows it mostly reminds me of why I never really loved twitter. and luckily I haven't found it habit forming at all

Its dominant/default style (as reflected in the main feeds, so I guess the posts which receive the most engagement) is for sure a form of posting that I avoided on Twitter. That said, I've noticed large & growing communities for science, comics, etc., so I'm sure it has value for folks with specific interests.

anyoen have an invite? i have resisted asking so far but i need something to obsessively refresh if twitter is gonna try to charge me

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many thx

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A few more

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Any invites going spare? Many thanks in advance

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Hook a man up? I don't want to bogart glumdal's

Thanks mate!

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i'm in

what's yr handle?

And any new people know how to find me easily enough...

just got on. I'm @critterjams.bsky.social, everyone else if you want a follow drop it here

same got on yesterday - same user name as i use here

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thanks!

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Please follow me lol @jeremysteel.bsky.social

Anyone got an Ello invite?

i don't pay any attention to curating my feed and neil gaiman and friends now have entire control of my feed what is even happening

I think people who post a LOT really dominate the feed on Bluesky. Sometimes I feel like Albini is the only poster there.

yea I kinda dig the mini Twitter vibe though the site in general seems pretty janky and not ready for primetime yet

this one i posted upthread is still live fyi all invite wanters bsky-social-znhop-fsygd

One more code:

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I think a good number of ppl join and never post (or post only very rarely) – maybe due to intimidation? I'm currently following 114 accounts, and my Following feed is still pretty quiet... only a handful of folks that I follow post regularly.

(In other words, of the now > 1mm accounts on BS, I suspect that a relatively high percentage of daily posts are coming from a relatively low number of accounts... whatever "relatively low" would mean for a social site.)

I reckon ppl aren't posting yet because they're on twitter.

If there's a way to link the posting that would be good

Anybody still need a code?

yes :(

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I’m too slow on the draw

kinda mourning twitter today. possibly just bc my day so far has involved a lot of waiting around lol.

like, a single guy just totally wrecked this vast thing. it’s wild.

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success. you are both heroes tyty

I wonder if people will realize that an algorithm feed can be good.

Find me a good algorithm feed first.

I've been pretty happy with the "For you" feed on another app, which I use as my primary Twitter replacement (...and which I won't name, to avoid getting into a battle-of-the-socials convo).

its spoutible isn't it

Haha, no... I bailed on that one after a good try

an hour ago i unsub'd from their mailouts.
i had totally forgotten about that place to be honest.

I wonder if Bluesky hasn't taken off because You Still Need a Fucking Secret Invite Code To Get In?

that's because it's still in beta mode? I mean the site is mostly functional but it doesn't seem production ready yet.

Like if I was a Twitter user with hundreds or thousands of followers, I'm not going to peace out and say "See you on Bluesky. Hope you got an invite, losers."

until recently my feed was dominated by neil gaiman and steve albini,
but then i tweaked something and boom, my feed has become a lot more interesting.
then again that could be cos they aren't posting as much and i have added a lot of accounts that i follow.

it's production ready, it's just missing features people want. I'm not sure how big the team is there; there are like, three people from there that post on bluesky even semi-regularly, and the main one is their front-end dev who might be the only person filling that role (not sure), and he forwards feature requests to someone who seems to be product.

it's dominated by 1% of users like any other social network. the problem is it's still small enough that timelines seem very repetitive. (also there's fewer people willing to be the main character and generate primo content like unperson.)

fwiw though some time in the last couple of weeks i reached the point where my regular following feed on bluesky (with replies turned off, just posts and reposts) has significantly more content than the same on twitter. my twitter following feed is down to like 4 posts an hour. i follow twice as many people on twitter than on bsky.