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

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"