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

The few IRL ppl I know who still have social media accounts* very rarely, if ever, post.

(Insta being the exception… kid photos and such)

FWIW I am still actively using bluesky, indeed more than I was a month ago, and am getting many new followers every day, whereas I've completely stopped with Threads.

I know a good bunch of people who mainly talk about books and a bit about music on Twitter, who are slowly shifting across. Once enough of them have I can bin the Twitter account. I don't really know anyone in the real world I can talk to about these things.

Deleted everything from Bluesky and split. Lots of scolds and folks going all-in on political shitposting.

To fine tune it... With Twitter, I could at least mix up the scolds and shitposts with recent photos of Saturn, updates on pirate radio stations on shortwave/HF, LA police pursuits, and what kinds of cupcakes are available at Erin McKenna's on Larchmont (my faves in town!). Without all that, I'm finding Bluesky in its current form feeling a lot like Facebook of all things. Endless loops of nostalgia memes punctuated by #resistanceshitpost whenever political turmoil happens.

tsar bombadil: if you have notifications you've checked in on and want the NEW NOTIFICATION notice to switch off, click to the home thread and back

Bluesky is still so clunky. You click on new notifications and the NEW NOTIFICATIONS number doesn't go away; you have to refresh multiple times, to make new notifications appear.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, October 3, 2023 8:07 PM (yesterday)

i've had to do this on twitter since forever (even before elon took over)

i doubt anyone ever unironically used the phrase "posting is praxis" to describe their own view, but many people believe (imho not unreasonably) that by posting it's possible to "shift the overton window"

thats what people will say when pressed but mostly theyre just posting because they like it

depends on who and when. the praxis motive peaks during democratic primaries or around the passage of major legislation by dem administrations. there's also a subset of posters who have their pet issue and are dedicated to replying to anyone who posts about it. kinda like a stan army for politics

Cheers, Mark S

5 more, if anyone is still looking:

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It’s happening

https://bsky.app/profile/michelleperez.bsky.social/post/3kawvetilrz2e

Who is that

I'm at @jimbooo, although lord knows I don't need any more things to distract me online.

The Following, Discover, and Popular With Friends tabs all show me the same people and posts... why is this site so half-baked

When I've tried using 'Discover', it keeps showing me posts I've already seen, sifted in / resorted with posts I haven't (i.e., it doesn't show me posts once and then keep adding new ones; it seems to keep throwing old ones back in). So I don't use it anymore...

Honestly I barely look at my other saved "Feeds" any longer, except maybe the Bob Dylan one

Back on the “fake accounts” tip…

not sure if this impersonator guy is who he says he is

yeah those arne't 'fake accounts' they are obvious spam junk accounts. I mean I guess those are 'fake' but they don't appear to be impersonating anyone

Yeah I didn’t mean impersonation accts, that’s a separate issue (I’ve reported one a few times that I guess just won’t be acted on).

You’d think they would have restricted certain other words from appearing in handles back during that last episode, but I guess not

I mean look it’s not a surprise; when they rolled out their moderation system based on 3rd-party labeling, and ppl were pointing out how it could be used for targeted abuse, that guy Paul made it clear that the idea hadn’t even occurred to them… like they hadn’t spent a minute thinking about it beyond “this enables us to avoid taking responsibility for moderation, which is the goal of this enterprise”

is there no way on web to view quote posts of a post

are there any feeds that have good posts ive got "what hot classic" (bad posts) and "popular with friends" (almost entirely posts from people im already following)

I got followed by Satan, so there is that.

Agree that "Popular with friends" is useless. "For You" and "Home+" are better than "What's Hot Classic".

do these links work?

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wqomm3tjqbgktbrfwgvrw34/feed/home-plus
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wqowuobffl66jv3kpsvo7ak4/feed/the-algorithm

yeah looked at for you it was better but still a lot of selfies and other shit im not really interested in in there

if you don't like my selfies then just mute me

listen man you just gotta invest in one of those ring lights

can you just post the list names, because the first time I clicked through it timed out twice, and the second time it just took me to my following feed I had open -_-

theres one called for you

“For you” is official as in maintained by bsky.

There’s one called “home*” which iirc was the first contributed feed that was algorithmic in a more complicated way than “>n likes” or “about subject X” but it seems to be broken for me right now.

Home+ not home* sorry

this site is starting to get good imo.

i need to follow more people but im trying not to follow too many jounalists-punits, trying for a feed of chill funny people but idk its tough

'OnlyPosts' is the feed i check the most other than 'Following' as it does what it says
i.e. only the posts of folks you follow and nothing else.

some codes:

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Yeah the filters like only posts are v useful.

Thanks for sharing the codes, Roz. Gonna give this platform a try

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is the strategy is to keep requiring codes until nobody cares anymore

then they'll be able to handle the traffic i guess

they say its part of their moderation scheme, if scammers spammers the banned etc cant make infinite accounts theyre much easier to control

it's a decent tactic. just keep requiring codes until everyone who is actively seeking to join a new social site has it, then move on to general use

reminds me of the very old days where gmail initially required an invite, and facebook was limited to certain universities, then by college email addresses for a couple years

you also end up with more people who have actually engaged with others on other social networks. if you can't get a code, you either have no one to ask, or the people you're asking are not giving you a code for a reason

ty truly-- i don't know/haven't learned what data and history actually seem to show about the strategy-- to bystander me it's just "wow, they're still passcoding."

reminds me of the very old days where gmail initially required an invite, and facebook was limited to certain universities, then by college email addresses for a couple years

Yep, I had to get an invite for my first Gmail account. Don't even remember who gave it to me.

Anybody else need codes?