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

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:

bsky-social-cejb2-pezyy
bsky-social-qspjk-cai4o
bsky-social-annkt-5gka4

Yeah the filters like only posts are v useful.

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

bsky-social-dm55f-air3m
bsky-social-452ru-cph3r
bsky-social-b6ov2-bsu2p

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?

I've also got a bunch of codes, I'll post them if anybody needs them

i made like $200 selling gmail invites on ebay back in the day

lmao

I remember Gmail codes! I think I ended up with an early adopter gmail because they gave them to people who also had... something accounts. I forget what, now. Photobucket or flickr or something.

Probably not flickr, they were in the pocket of Big Yahoo!

Anyway, I tweeted that I had 4 bsky codes a couple nights ago because everyone I'd offer one to in a dm is already over there. Hoping to cast a wider net among people I follow/follow me and I got *crickets*. tbh the migration seems largely complete based on who I've always followed on twitter. Not everyone is a regular user yet, and some never will be, but almost everyone's there already.

My tweeting and retweeting has gone way up during this ongoing genocide. There’s mostly like 5 people on there who still pay attention, and it wouldn’t matter much even if it was thousands more, but I’m compelled to do it. No offense to anyone who’s getting anything out of it but I check in to look at bluesky and it feels irrelevant right now.

fwiw, I never used Twitter and don’t want to use Bluesky, I mostly lurk in these threads because I want to see these platforms fail lmfao

I'm on Bluesky and Twitter, still get better interactions + better content on the latter.

I am very happy with Bluesky; in re Chris L’s point I’m seeing plenty of discussion and posts about Gaza there, so I guess it’s all down to who’s being followed. I take Alfred’s point about conversation feeling smoother on Twitter in comparison but, well, if you’re at a party and trying to have a chat, when the host is yelling all the time and welcoming the Nazis to the front door, why hang further?

That's it, though. Maybe I've curated my feed well, for I don't see much of any haranguing unless I'm looking for it.

Bluesky is feeling pretty Twitter 2010 to me rn which is good.

Bluesky's directed me to excellent Levant-related content, I'll say.

The big difference is I have been reading and trying to retweet numerous Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices, none of whom would be on bluesky.

on bluesky if a post you replied to is deleted seems like your reply is deleted as well, kinda sucks, a cool thing about twitter is replies are first class posts in their own right

I think a lot of it is user-facing behavior? If you block someone, you don't see your replies to them anymore, either. Unblock them and it's back.

oh maybe it works the other way too when theyve blocked me

i can still find my reply in question in search but when i click on it i get this post has been deleted

it actually says

Post not found
The post may have been deleted.

https://bsky.app/profile/friendo.bsky.social/post/3kd3azj6ete2s

The Stephen King account says: "There is an impersonation warning on my account, but it’s really me. Just hasn’t been used lately." (The warning reads: The moderators believe this account is lying about their identity.)

They're gonna need some sort of verification system if they ever want public figures to join in real numbers.

yeah seems like theyre going for a pretty bare bones approach so far which is prob wise, theyve only raised $8m so far from what i can tell, staffing up stuff like verification moderation celebrity concierge service etc will be expensive and prob comes later

verification is already implemented in the way they plan to do it, https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial

Sounds like a big lift.

also it doesnt prevent anyone from impersonating you

(I guess I see how the "newsroom" thing would work, for organizations that would take the time to do that – but yeah, I don't understand why I couldn't buy a domain and say I'm "Tom Cruise" or whoever.)

Bluesky is not going to affirmatively verify anyone which is complicated and expensive. They rely on domain control for that. But they are actively flagging accounts as impersonation which is cheap. They would flag @iamtomcruise.com quickly based on current behavior.

Sounds like a big lift.

― Girl (1956) (morrisp), Wednesday, November 1, 2023 5:09 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

So was getting verified at Twitter?

Getting a blue check in 2022 involved sending Twitter photo id and making/receiving phone calls and physical mail. No celebrity is going to send photo id to a shitty startup.

Well I guess it will have to wait until they're no longer a shitty startup(?)