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

they had 550k new users in the past 24 hours.

xp oh boy that's one interesting way to put it

the CEO worked for two crypto companies for a few years, dunno that that makes them a maven.

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.

yes that is completely annoying

ask that guy Paul to do it.

Good feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/feed/infreq

The only one from that list that I'm following is Satan. Surprising that he is considered quiet.

xp nice, that one is half ilx people for me

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

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)

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.

So is Bluesky just another place on the internet to argue about politics?

its a place for cool bot https://bsky.app/profile/random-people-bot.bsky.social

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

that's lame

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.

Long interview w/BS’s CEO. I only skimmed it, but found the comments interesting and on-point.

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…

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.

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.)

maybe the only reason civilization happened is that at some point physically you could “not be there” or could usually “walk away”?

when the algorithm is feeding you terrible shit it’s hard to get away.

also harder online: re-enacting that story of the Kung bushmen who surrounded a tribe member who was a relentless bad-actor and then filled him with arrows. and then had absolutely the entire community stab him for community participation. i read it an a relatively serious book didn’t check on its truth.

and not that i could recommend it, mind, i def would not do.

Every week there’s some new fandom drama that brings the most unhinged takes to my timeline.

― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, April 13, 2024 12:35 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

the militarizations of fandoms via social media is wild were not quite at the level of the blue and greens in byzantium but politicians arent above appealing to taylor swift fans or whatnot

fuck the blues, they were dumb and horrible, GREENS ROCK

otm

when are they going to hijack the back button so when I press it after opening an image it closes the image instead of leaving the site.

don't tell me to use the app.

also q) how do I know I've switched to the 'discover' tab? a) furry cartoons all over my feed.

i was just working on that functionality for a site

https://i.imgur.com/Wt3UCsr.png

I guess the “bridge” thing with Mastodon worked… I’m seeing these “test” posts from accounts with these complex “.br.id.g” (or whatever) addendums.

This seems to be how it works: https://fed.brid.gy/

amazing web site

Wow, you can "bridge" yr BS account to the Fediverse just by following a certain account? That's wild

I guess one caution seems to be that if you delete a BS post, it won't (yet) be deleted on the bridged ActivityPub account.

Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter

He prefers Nostr even though it’s “weird and hard to use.”

https://www.engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claims-bluesky-is-repeating-all-the-mistakes-he-made-at-twitter-234326121.html

lmao

Dorsey also confirmed that he is financially backing Nostr, another decentralized Twitter-like service popular among some crypto enthusiasts and run by an anonymous founder.

"Why does this censorship follow me wherever I go?"

“The name is an acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"

A measure of how large Bluesky is vs how large people think it is: how many of us have Defense Contractor Discourse on their timeline today?

Not on my timeline

Yes, a little bit. I don't know what's going on there at all.

not mine

80% of my tl is ned reposts so yeah it’s in there, idk the context tho (I know some prick works at the genocide factory just don’t know which one)

I have a very narrowly curated followers list that's primarily focused on music / music writing, with a bit of local politics mixed in.

So what I can see this morning seems *completely* on-brand for BlueSky, in that I have a few posts that reference "The Discourse" and "The Bad Thing" without specifying what the fuck they're actually talking about, and then a couple of references to war profiteering and genocide without naming names.

So... looks like most any other morning on BlueSky to me.

who is the war profiteer

not mine

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 16, 2024 9:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

i think i found some

ok i have tracked down the info idk who the person in question is https://bsky.app/profile/cara.city/post/3kuz7qqcftb2s

80% of my tl is ned reposts

Just living in yer head. :-D

Ahhhhhhhh so that’s what those subskeets were about

happy to say this story has not reached my timeline :)