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According to Piers Morgan, Bluesky is popular since Trump got elected because
"These squealing wokies all running away because they just realised nobody agrees with them anymore are so funny"
 
Squealing wokie? Not me. I'm just not a fan of Musk. I never had a Twitter account to begin with, and I wasn't going to start when Musk took over.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Found you.
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Puppycow said:
I would imagine in the beginning, the paramount objective is to increase the number of users, not to immediately try to turn a profit. If someday it becomes a viable alternative to Twitter, then they will be able to think about how to make money off it. (The "why" I assume is the same as for any other social media platform.)

I went ahead and signed up. @anaxagoras17.bsky.social
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Found you both
 
It seems Andrew Tate lasted a day on Bluesky before being kicked off.
In the last 2 days I've found many of the accounts I used to follow on Twitter now on Bluesky. Journalists, writers, lawyers and more. I get the feeling that (possibly combined with the Musk/Trump abomination) Bluesky just hit critical mass at the right time and many people see others jumping ship so feel more inclined to do so.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
how long would they have lasted on this forum before being banned ?
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Good question - it would of course depend on what he posted and how he posted it. But sites like Bluesky aren't really discussion sites, they are for preaching, sorry getting your important words out to people.
 
Wudang said:
In the last 2 days I've found many of the accounts I used to follow on Twitter now on Bluesky.
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Me too. I started going through the people I was following on Twitter and looking for them on Bluesky. If they were on Bluesky I followed them there and unfollowed them on Twitter. Now I'm down to mostly just government agencies on Twitter. Bluesky is adding about a million people a day.

I never quite got the hang of Mastodon. It always seemed compare to twitter the way Linux compares to Windows - it works if you want to deal with a steep learning curve and make effort. But not for lazy casual users like me.

Threads works, but I felt like that was just changing out one oligarch (Musk) for another (although in fairness, Zuckerberg is definitely the lesser of those two evils).

Bluesky works and is easy. One can figure out the starter packs and lists and feeds and all that - or you can use it just like twitter with no learning curve and that works fine.
 
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I would say around 75% of the accounts I follow and interact with on twitter are over on bluesky now. I've had a chat with Al Murray about weathering a Churchill and Memorial Device has made it his permanent home. That means all the Alternative National treasures (Like me ) will be at least registering san account. It's a great honour to be a Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure.
 
looks like I caught a bot on my bluesky account - no posts, follows 400 accounts, is followed by a couple.
 
It seems like more of the people I follow are joining every day and I'm trying to recruit the rest.

It has to be tough for journalists who now have to post on multiple platforms to reach the same audience. It would be nice if some third party came out with a tool that allows you to post to your account on multiple services in one step.
 
LiteBright said:
It seems like more of the people I follow are joining every day and I'm trying to recruit the rest.

It has to be tough for journalists who now have to post on multiple platforms to reach the same audience. It would be nice if some third party came out with a tool that allows you to post to your account on multiple services in one step.
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Hoot Suite used to do that with multiple platforms. Not sure if it's still the standard or if it does BlueSky.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
looks like I caught a bot on my bluesky account - no posts, follows 400 accounts, is followed by a couple.
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Ha that could describe me. I never tweeted, followed about 90 and had 2 followers. No avatar and no description either. Anyone who happened on my profile would have likely assumed bot. And that's just fine by me.
 
I am at undermentals.bsky.social. Mostly lurking (much like here) until I get a feel for the culture.
 
@arthwollipot.bsky.social

Remember that Bluesky has a long-standing suggestion to "block - don't engage". That's how the ◊◊◊◊ bag Tate got dunked in 24 hours.
 
crescent said:
Me too. I started going through the people I was following on Twitter and looking for them on Bluesky. If they were on Bluesky I followed them there and unfollowed them on Twitter. Now I'm down to mostly just government agencies on Twitter. Bluesky is adding about a million people a day.

I never quite got the hang of Mastodon. It always seemed compare to twitter the way Linux compares to Windows - it works if you want to deal with a steep learning curve and make effort. But not for lazy casual users like me.
Threads works, but I felt like that was just changing out one oligarch (Musk) for another (although in fairness, Zuckerberg is definitely the lesser of those two evils).

Bluesky works and is easy. One can figure out the starter packs and lists and feeds and all that - or you can use it just like twitter with no learning curve and that works fine.
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Also it doesn't matter how good the operating system is, if you cannot get the software for it. In the case of social media, the analogue is the other users.

I want to find out expert analyses of news stories and what experts think are the news stories in their fields. With the opportunity to interact if takes occur to me.

Mastodon doesn't do that, because too many servers are not talking nicely with each other.

Twitter still does that, but with an increase in the noise and decrease in the signal.

Bluesky seems to be increasingly doing that.
 
Uai‬ ‪@why.bsky.team‬

To be clear, we do have plans for scaling, we just kinda expected more than a couple days notice before getting blasted with a million new users a day.
The team is rapidly deploying fixes and new software to adapt. More servers in the mail.
 
gerdbonk said:
Okay. I joined BlueSky. Now what? Is democracy restored?
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Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
 
jt512 said:
Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
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Or maybe most of the users just want to share pictures, video and art or hang out and chat with friends.
 
jt512 said:
Democracy at Bluesky?! Hardly. Their "Trust and Safety Team" ;) reports getting 3000 requests for censorship moderation per hour (that's nearly 1 per second). A post by Colin Wright was censored for claiming that sex is not a spectrum.

Bluesky is a dystopian woke-hole. If that's what you're looking for, act quickly, because their model of censoring everything that isn't in full compliance with their ideology is not sustainable. Unless they democratize, they'll go down the drain the same way Atheist+ did.
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:cautious: Meanwhile, back in the Real World, as opposed to the rightist echo chamber.....
 
I have read that BlueSky is decentralised, and people can set up their own server. How can they censure and kick out people, then? It doesn’t sound very decentralised to me.
 
steenkh said:
I have read that BlueSky is decentralised, and people can set up their own server. How can they censure and kick out people, then? It doesn’t sound very decentralised to me.
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Looks like that is still a work in progress. My reading is that the focus is on user experience so the user's "block" request is implemented via their server so they don't see blocked material. Then they seem to suggest that blocking a server would be a community action as is done on Mastodon. I just skimmed it though
docs.bsky.app

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.
docs.bsky.app docs.bsky.app
 
Wudang said:
Looks like that is still a work in progress. My reading is that the focus is on user experience so the user's "block" request is implemented via their server so they don't see blocked material. Then they seem to suggest that blocking a server would be a community action as is done on Mastodon. I just skimmed it though
docs.bsky.app

Why are blocks on Bluesky public? | Bluesky

The technical implementation of public blocks and some possibilities for more privacy preserving block implementations — an area of active research and experimentation.
docs.bsky.app docs.bsky.app
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Thanks. I read it, and I think I understand what they are doing. Their main concern seems to be bad actors that implement blocks against others, and they have good ideas for stopping it, or at least keep the impact low.
 
Wudang said:
Reports that Chinese media are worried that their investments in bots, influencers etc on Twitter may be wasted.
www.semafor.com

Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor

State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com www.semafor.com
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Oh, how hard would it be to retool their twitter bots?
 
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