I'm loving the handwringing about the barbarians storming the gate if only to laugh at the incredible self regard Bluesky holds itself in
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:35 (seven months ago) link
my precious twitter clone lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:36 (seven months ago) link
wonder if theres actually even any big rush of sign ups today
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:37 (seven months ago) link
the incredible self regard Bluesky holds itself in
It's positively Tumblr-esque.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:38 (seven months ago) link
im not seeing any of this stuff tbh but as a non-loser i follow interesting funny ppl
― mark s, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:39 (seven months ago) link
i see a bit of it rted from one account i follow but besides that yeah not much, some people making fun of it, i like to see it tho its good to know whats going on, thats why i never block
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:40 (seven months ago) link
i block like Yglesias and a few music dudes i can't stand it's good for my soul
― a (waterface), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:45 (seven months ago) link
blocking is very good for people who are constantly inventing a guy to argue with (and pretending you're the guy) or reply-guy trolls. other people that are minor annoyances are just worth muting so you don't see large portions of a thread disappear in the default client
wonder if the former Tweetbot people are considering a bsky client in addition to their mastodon one. I checked out Graysky for a bit and it wasn't different enough for me to care that much
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:46 (seven months ago) link
i hate social media but have gotten hooked on twitter so hoping it dies, no desire to recreate it with another website with an annoying name.
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 19:52 (seven months ago) link
Wouldn't have thought that "blocking other accounts for any reason at any time is totally acceptable" was unique to "Bluesky culture."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:04 (seven months ago) link
I mean, I never blocked very many people on Twitter myself, but it seemed like a lot of other people curated their experience that way, especially people with large followings and/or who experienced a lot of harassment, and that didn't seem particularly controversial to me. That's what the block button was for.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:07 (seven months ago) link
I mute pretty liberally on social media (blocking less so, but for sure if someone is being a jerk or seems like someone I wouldn’t even want seeing/engaging with my posts).
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:12 (seven months ago) link
(On Bluesky I also relied heavily on the topic/interest feeds, and the custom feed that I set up)
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:13 (seven months ago) link
I will mute based on vibes alone, it’s often not even a negative judgment really, just “this isn’t the kind of thing I’m here to see”
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:14 (seven months ago) link
its fine with me if people want to mute and block til the cows come home none of my business but a society (website) that has blocking as a core spiritual practice is doomed (because too many posts will be hidden)
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:16 (seven months ago) link
muting is really the more socially conscious choice, save blocking for major cases
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:17 (seven months ago) link
― jaymc, Tuesday, February 6, 2024 2:04 PM (twenty-four minutes ago)
the culture on twitter was really weird about this! people would brag about getting someone to block them, obsess over who followed/unfollowed them, etc. And people with large accounts were paradoxically less likely to block than mute, because genuinely threatening people would take a block as their impetus to rally others to harass
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 20:32 (seven months ago) link
I see none of this in eitehr bsky or twitter prob cos i dont engage with those kind of accounts at all, but honestly if anyone I do follow starts RTing realy loud whingey idpol tone police fuckers, I'll just mute/unfollow, meh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 6 February 2024 23:08 (seven months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3kkrhtm2fa32k
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:05 (seven months ago) link
realy loud whingey idpol tone police fucker
There's a screen name in there.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:06 (seven months ago) link
The tone police they come to me in my skeets
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:24 (seven months ago) link
excessive blocking by a significant % of users will eventually deteriorate the overall user experience
the whole idea is to deteriorate the overall user experience
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:41 (seven months ago) link
oh well that does make more sense now
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:47 (seven months ago) link
wonder if theres actually even any big rush of sign ups todayhttps://bsky.app/profile/retr0.id/post/3kkrhtm2fa32k
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, February 6, 2024 7:05 PM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
saw a big account say they gained 1k followers, get em blue sky app
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 00:48 (seven months ago) link
ceo says they got 100k+ new users https://bsky.app/profile/jay.bsky.team/post/3kks2tja2sm2q
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 01:06 (seven months ago) link
i forgot til just now that i added like 8 block lists immediately upon signing up, guess it works. i did have to manually mute tom scocca, guy is a machine
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:47 (seven months ago) link
I wasn’t aware that the Bluesky CEO was a crypto maven, so assume it’s already in a death spiral now.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 7 February 2024 10:59 (seven months ago) link
they’re more “protocol” people (ie poly libertarians) than crypto per se IIUC.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:04 (seven months ago) link
they had 550k new users in the past 24 hours.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 14:09 (seven months ago) link
xp oh boy that's one interesting way to put it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 16:13 (seven months ago) link
the CEO worked for two crypto companies for a few years, dunno that that makes them a maven.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 19:20 (seven months ago) link
I wish the desktop browser version would keep the back arrow glued to the top of the screen when you scroll through replies on a post. It's a small complaint because you can go back by hitting the home icon or your browser back button, but I still find myself scrolling back to the top of posts to do this and then getting annoyed.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 22:41 (seven months ago) link
yes that is completely annoying
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 7 February 2024 23:08 (seven months ago) link
ask that guy Paul to do it.
Good feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 8 February 2024 03:39 (seven months ago) link
The only one from that list that I'm following is Satan. Surprising that he is considered quiet.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 8 February 2024 03:40 (seven months ago) link
xp nice, that one is half ilx people for me
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 8 February 2024 04:02 (seven months ago) link
i like how much jamelle bouie has Had Enough with his reply guys on this site
https://bsky.app/profile/jbouie.bsky.social/post/3kkyhdldmvi27
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:01 (seven months ago) link
he blocked me for being a reply guy so I can't read it (I like him, but have always found his social media presence a bit willfully obtuse...he said something quite a while ago that everyone misinterpreted, because IMO he was just not clear, and I said so, and got immediately blocked)
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:18 (seven months ago) link
If ilx had a block feature and we used it the way these itchy block-fingered high profile guys do on x/blueski we'd quickly have no one reading our posts.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 9 February 2024 14:52 (seven months ago) link
So is Bluesky just another place on the internet to argue about politics?
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:00 (seven months ago) link
its a place for cool bot https://bsky.app/profile/random-people-bot.bsky.social
― lag∞n, Friday, 9 February 2024 16:02 (seven months ago) link
there’s a music critic whom i like, and whose newsletter i subscribe to, but after each new post they spend several days re-blueskying it every three hours and this annoys me far more than it should and i wish i could turn those retweets off
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 19:07 (six months ago) link
that's lame
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 11 March 2024 19:08 (six months ago) link
Not that you be should have to, but if the newsletter has a distinctive name or there's some other word they always use in the promo posts, you could try muting it. Not sure if Bluesky mute supports multiword phrases or not.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 March 2024 08:32 (six months ago) link
Long interview w/BS’s CEO. I only skimmed it, but found the comments interesting and on-point.
― let’s get intertwined (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 March 2024 03:49 (six months ago) link
Brazil Bluesky has suddenly exploded, apparently due to a court order blocking Twitter in Brazil(?)I keep a “stan account” (sort of as a joke or diversion) that had absolutely zero going on, but was following a few dormant Brazilian fan accounts; and suddenly they sprung to life, along with a bunch of new ones, in a wave of follows and reposts. Pretty cool…
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Sunday, 7 April 2024 23:51 (five months ago) link
I’ve noticed I’ve blocked more people on Bluesky than I’ve blocked in the same time on other social media apps. Every week there’s some new fandom drama that brings the most unhinged takes to my timeline.
Last week was people responding to Ed Piskor’s suicide with posts like “all predators should delete themselves?” “Predators?” “Delete themselves?”
The last few weeks has made me reconsider the value of Google’s identity verification requirements for Google+. However, it’s certainly possible social media is, at the end of the day, bad.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:35 (five months ago) link
In the final year or so that I was on Twitter, I took to using my actual photo as a pfp, and a close version of my real name – as a self-policing measure, to restrict the impulse to be unnecessarily rude, snarky, whatever. (I know that many ppl choose to be non-anonymous anyway, and many others can’t/won’t do it for safety reasons; but it “worked for me” in that respect.)
― rendered nugatory (morrisp), Saturday, 13 April 2024 16:50 (five months ago) link