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

You'd think they'd prioritize some other stuff.

got my first bluesky like from an egirl bot today, its becoming a real app

https://i.imgur.com/DqkayP9.png

ask a beginner question and get a reply from a legend of the field, the promises of twitter and its clones is still alive

https://i.imgur.com/d1UTGPt.png

This kind of happened to me recently, re: a Twin Peaks question someone idly asked (I looped in a podcast guy, who mentioned Mark Frost & Harley Peyton; then someone looped in both those guys, who are apparently on Bluesky; and Peyton addressed the question).

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what was the question

This was the original post in the thread

nice

https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3kh3ndyijp52o

They should work on letting you edit posts… after getting used to that function on Threads and Mastodon, not being able to do it kind of stinks!

do anyone want invite or have we hit ilx saturation

i have an invite! does your ilxmail work?

lol read that too quickly and thought you were looking for one, nvm

(i have the codes)

wasn't in the market but somehow gram came at me about how my friends want me on threads so baaad, so i joined that today. i might not come back, going to look for the threads thread now

Im on threads but my strategy is to only have one thread. I’ve been posting to myself for months on my one thread, and I don’t think it notifies anyone. This is a good thing! It’s a social media network so I understand how it uses an algorithm to try to make more interesting to others, and in my case it has quickly determined it can make any money off of me! It’s just like damn, no, threads hates you and that is probably right

oops, sorry, *can't make any money off of me

but of course,

** yes it can make money off of me anyway, but only a little bit

cute, lack of a head is kind of troubling tho

https://i.imgur.com/lS5FKtC.png

it's the colonel sanders bowtie and collar area

new bluesky app logo looks bad

oh that’s what lagoon posted abt

i keep tryna imagine the secret way it’s actually good and i def cannot. maybe making it blue like the burd will give somehow anal musk a stroke

I guess I don’t realize how much they were aping the Twitter look until I saw the new (iOS) app icon on my phone.

it's bad. i think the ceo likes butterflies?

Btw, the logo’s designer hinted today (…on Threads…) that a UI rehaul is also in the works.

lol
https://bsky.app/profile/boobliette.bsky.social/post/3kht55d7fry2o

i have no issue with the butterfly?

BTW, media embeds (video, from youtube, critically) now work, I see

Finally got my invite today. Who is worth following on this app?

feel like the moby-dick bot has somehow gotten better on blueski?

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blue sky more like poo sky haha jk

did not expect poosky.com domain placeholder to be a full screen goatse reference

(it's a safe for work goatse reference, for the goatse heads that are at work right now)

heh

https://i.imgur.com/K8ZDhgM.png

https://bsky.app/profile/zig.computer/post/3kkjkxmor6c2s

I bailed around the holidays… checked back in briefly this week before deleting the app from my phone. Glad it’s a place that works for some folks, everyone needs their spot online.

I think invite only has really blunted its impact. Understand they don’t want to be swamped with new accounts and break their infra, but the slowly slowly rollout isn’t helping them gain traction.

what would qualify as gaining traction

i'm still using bsky but I feel like a lot of people I followed who came over from twitter have massively slowed their posting. Agree that they really need to open it to everyone, I'm not sure why they haven't now.

the invite system is clearly part of their moderation system so is prob not going away anytime soon, we can conclude from that theyre not just trying to grow as fast as possible, so what are they doing, idk lol trying to make a good site maybe, just messing around

Don't know if I want it to gain traction, small number of accounts from people I like, that's all I'm looking for

what would qualify as gaining traction

I guess shaping the zeitgeist in the way Twitter did back in the day. Appreciate they may not want to go that route given how it became a mega(maga)phone for some toxic discourse.

i dont think theres gonna be another twitter or facebook for that matter, the age of mass posting is over, maybe there can be a baby twitter tho with journalists but without bieber

it seems like they need an infinite invite system, like, you can invite all your contacts or whatever, but those invitees cannot invite off your invite code. they'll get their own code, and have to do the same.

I don’t think invites are a meaningful bottleneck. If everyone gets one invite a week and it actually gets used they’d double in size every week. Everyone on earth would be on it by now if the invites were actually getting used.

you still need to get one tho someone cant just see a post in a news article or whatever go to the app store and get on bluesky

i want a graph displaying the rate of individual inviters. who are regular repeaters? like i should go check mine i must have a score of em now.

I think basically everyone who wants to get on AND who they want there is on. The problem is a lot of people aren’t bothered so it’s kind of a small set. It’s big enough for me. I like it.

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be free little butterflies, be fruitful!!

let say bluesky has a viral post thats circulated far beyond their site/app, a whole new group of people become aware of bluesky, and they cannot get on