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

The only social media app I like is the one where people talk endlessly about the other social media apps I don't like and am not on

Still to use my code.

lol, that's maybe the smartest way to bluesky

sell it on ebay

I'm @rooob.bsky.social btw, not that I post really

rhymes with brewski

another for the pro column

Anyone who pronounces it like that around me is going to get a restraining order.

ello

Bluesguy

not a bad idea, Eazy

Folks, you're all doing it wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-36ijwAQUs

So if someone were to try to extract user data from this new service, would that be

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/MidnightOil_BlueSkyMining.jpg

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

what a world

abolitionism starts here

Bluesky: It died in Beta

"seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform."

Just joined 😂

ha i thought that would catch your eye.

leadership here is as sus as threads or twitter. like jack, they seem to share a lot of intellectual heritage with thiel, although i'm sure they'd deny it (60s bay area libertarianism, girard, etc.) but with burning man and shitposting (as an alibi for race wierdness) and some weird fash-adjacent stuff about nature.

grasscist

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 July 2023 19:17 (one hour ago) link

tbh this is very funny

dril's second skeet was good: "im going on a posting strike from here until the.y make every one not racist or whatever"

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j.

someone normal should make an app imo

first post from someone other than that one poor SWE who had to ship the n-word regex. replies are good. https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3k2izrg6k6o2j🕸.

lmao the mods are being called out and people are snitch tagging the investors on ... linkedin!

no

i mean someone else can, but i can't be bothered to be honest. no offence. it's very silly.

its all fun and games til you bring the beef to linkedin

ahh brilliant, hide it where no one will look

seems like the owners/employees have basically been bullied off their own platform. apart from one SWE they've completely stopped posting. truly outstanding effort from the userbase.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, July 14, 2023 3:17 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

'scuse me, while I diss bluesky.

Not a screenshot but: the post is from a bsky team technical advisor that says “Some of that Blue.” with a photo of a blue sky with which is just not remotely helpful.

To you, no. If you consider that some people reading might be colour-blind, though...

I almost went back to LiveJournal after seeing my posts from the 2000s and missing writing in paraphernalia, and then I found it was owned by Russians and…subject to Russian law.

(Also am in Bluesky and it feels like me and Albini and Parton Oswalt hanging out in a Delta Skylounge.)

Xp: ha well they did include an alt text so that’s good

TIL blueski was (probably) a pun

Holy SHIT you are not ready for this pic.twitter.com/1wMD4Jq9Kp

— Lauren McKenzie (@TheMcKenziest) July 14, 2023

Bluesguy

― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Friday, July 14, 2023 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Lol

I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists

i was @lebronjames on ello

in case anyone wants an invite code

bsky-social-ufxqd-dszmo
bsky-social-2biwx-cqxgy

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

both taken

I'm on there now as chants.bsky.social. Haven't found very many people to follow on there, idk.

"I joined ello but lord only knows when I was last on it or if the account still exists"

the app still exists, so I assume the network does (I think I wound up deleting it, but I would occasionaly open it up as recently as a year ago and see just random images). Confusingly Ello is also now the name of a more high profile reading app that has nothing to do with old Ello.

If anyone wants to follow me on there I’m matthewbalaam.bsky.social - I won’t post much except the odd link to a radioshow or gig probably.

bluesky cant hope to compete with twitter until they get video so you can watch the cop eat shit on the slide

Have atthem:

bsky-social-w77g6-ysjch
bsky-social-zsizl-emv5i
bsky-social-efm3v-h6eeh
bsky-social-7ch5w-6blgf

Thanks!

thanks!

telling that the new app is a separate app and is the baby of the recently ex ceo, its being left to die

important news: i got blocked by the internet hippo

i am innocent free me

(i actually have no idea why) (well i am annoying there's that but i have no idea how i came to the hippo's notice, did i cheek him or something?)

Hippo thought about following you, their fingers slipped on the wrong button

you probably wound up on some list

telling that the new app is a separate app and is the baby of the recently ex ceo, its being left to die

which new app is this?

ai thing to create bluesky feeds https://attie.ai

why the assumption that it's 'being left to die' it appears to have been announced only yesterday?

telling that the new app is a separate app and is the baby of the recently ex ceo, its being left to die

― lag∞n, Sunday, March 29, 2026 1:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

that doesn't answer my question

sucks for you i guess

my theory is that it was more of a parallel career move in the eyes of the ceo and her peers, but it doesn’t feel like that for anyone who has a blanket ban of anything referencing ai

Is it down this morning, or is it just me?

It's not just you.

It was back, and now it’s down again.

more like boosky

its funny how every time it goes down people give them shit about vibe coding even if no one has any idea if thats the problem and then the tech people are like thats prob not even the problem this is so annoying which makes it even better sorry this ax isnt going to grind itself

addictive sites for posting should just have some downtime. maybe even a panic button that makes it glitch out if people need to chill

they should be forced to show a whale drawing

Speaking as someone not in tech who experiences people on social media confidently misdiagnose the root of issues they have with us, I would ask people not to do this haha.

It's super obnoxious. Just because the dev team uses AI coding tooling (like ABSOLUTELY EVERY OTHER DEVELOPMENT TEAM IN THE WORLD) does not mean they are 'vibe coding'.

maybe they should stop vibe coding then

the site basically doesnt work anymore. whatever theyre doing they should stop it

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If bluesky is down why am I seeing so many posts about bluesky being down

i saw a rate limiting message pop up so they appear to be getting DDOS'ed

or they just don't have enough servers running to handle all the requests. pretty standard these days

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlx6oefypliizxxuqf435awt/bafkreihwxhnuibckxtzbd3dit6p636737rhfsimufbtragpidrys56zzqy

can someone please rescue this app from its developers?

https://bsky.app/profile/mrcinnamontf.bsky.social/post/3mk2wa2b3ws2n

ha nice one

is that really why it's broken? I'm not blocked but it didn't work for me either. I've unsubscribed from it anyway now as I never used it plus that guy seems like a dumbass

side note: is there anything more embarrassing than tech people using social science concepts to whine about their haters?

I'm not sure but I think him blocking your quiet posters might mess it up too.

Can't believe Centrist Twitter is dysfunctional

calling the people who run Bluesky centrist is probably generous tbrr

Lol yeah I figured

quiet posters works for me im not on the anti ai block list, which is outrageous

you have to like one (1) specific post to get on there lmao

very important technology

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztkogcunywtbomr7lsywq45d/bafkreihjk24btmof3oki2juitp652grj5ygp26thtrpbdtglyalnqh7k3e

I saw the best minds of my generation

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uemns7yqb62n5kpwe34wgdhs/post/3mk3mtmxizk2j

Anyway while Why still has me unblocked, I noticed a new line of text in his bio that I don't remember being there before. I wonder what that is.

> General Partner @mana.inc

love an investment fund with a nebulous mission statement

> Mana Investing in paramount technologies to improve the quality of human life and progress.

Yes, these are not only crypto losers, they are also still selling themselves on their association with crypto bullshit. Who says "web3" in 2026?

> Jeromy Johnson Jeromy was the first employee at Protocol Labs, where he led development on IPFS, Coinlist, Filecoin and others. Much of the web3 ecosystem builds upon his work.

So what does the embarrassingly-named "Mana Industries" fund invest in? Well, Bluesky, for one thing (silicon valley is nothing if not incestuous) but also: eugenics! You dig deep enough into any Silicon Valley thing and it always goes a bit Ahnherbe

> Orchid, mitigate risks with the world’s most advanced whole genome screening for embryos.

They also invest in a bunch of generic SaaS startups (I guess you kind of just pick those up, like ticks), some h2 fuel cell thing that I can't definitely say is snake oil but sure smells like it, and of course this amazing pile of buzzwords

> LigandAI®, combines cutting-edge predictive interactomics® with predictive targeting & delivery technology to enable diagnostically-responsive therapeutics.

Oh and of course, the crown jewel of their portfolio: the AI slop Jane Austen fanfic people

> The text "Whenere" above a composite photo of a woman typing into a computer and a bunch of AI slop Jane Austen characters emerging from it

Oh and also, because they know the kind of chode who runs their company: their website ends with a lengthy disclaimer about how they're not responsible for the things their executives post

> The opinions and viewpoints conveyed in various 'posts' – encompassing podcasts, videos, and social media content – are solely those of the individual members of Mana Management's staff who are cited in those posts. These expressions do not reflect the official stance, views, or opinions of Mana Management, Inc., hereinafter referred to as 'Mana', nor do they represent the views of any of Mana's affiliates.

Anyway, if you needed it absolutely clear that this website is run by extropians high on their noostaacks still sore from the utter failure of bored apes, here you go.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uemns7yqb62n5kpwe34wgdhs/post/3mk3myeoyys2j

I wanna be very clear about what I mean about eugenics: "Orchid," which 'technical advisor' to this benighted website Why invests in, promises to screen embryos for "autism spectrum disorder". Besides being medically dubious, their business is the elimination of a whole class of human beings.

It's funny (very funny) to joke about vibe coding, throwing your phone in the pool, and why's constant crashing out but don't lose sight that he is actually a horrible fucking person

newer iPhones are pretty water resistant and that's a funny dumb smart guy or smart dumb guy thing to admit, it's just that particular guy did it while not being known as a funnyman and also under scrutiny of an entire social network

also while a lot of that is goofy bullshit, and I have no idea if LiganAI (tm) has anything worth mentioning, one of the most promising headline from the last week has been a pancreatic cancer vaccine that uses targeted therapy based on the particular patient's cancer cells and I have some bad news on how they would make sure a vaccine if you're blanket anti-computational ai and not just against all-capitals marketing-speak AI

think everyone has been clear throughout that The Bad Thing is LLMs etc, not the machine learning for medical stuff which has been useful for years, getting these lumped together is only beneficial for the techbros

newer iPhones are pretty water resistant

Mine is several years old and/but it fell in a lake the other week and emerged unscathed.

this guy "why" is apprently married to the recent bluesky ceo "jay"

LigmaAI

LingamAI

Why ran the Quiet Posters feed which apparently broke after Why suscribed some kind of blocklist of "anti-ai users"; but I think he unsubbed from that list, as I was blocked earlier today and now am not. I have no idea why I'd be on an anti-ai list, I do not post against AI on Bluesky.

I believe I saw that it's happening to people who blocked Attie, which I certainly did, last I checked I was blocked by why now as well

update: yes I am no longer blocked as well