Bluesky

[pdub]

Bye Twitter/X?

Personally I do very little social media but even in the minor usage I could tell Twitter has been trash for a couple years now.

[Shirley]

Joined Bluesky a few days ago. Very white bread, so far.

I couldn't take Trad judging me every time I posted a link to twitter any longer.

[pdub]

White bread is a great match for BBQ.

[KUTradition]

I couldn't take Trad judging me every time I posted a link to twitter any longer.

you’re welcome

[KUTradition]

i actually posted about this (recent migration away from twitter) on the poli board

seems “journalists” and newspapers (are they still called that?) are increasingly ceasing to post content on twitter

[BiggDick]

rad!

now let's do this migration for Meta products too.

(guess this means Threads never took off?)

[Overlander]

Don’t worry, pretty soon, you will be paying your mortgages through X.

The Bluesky folks will easy to spot in the gulags….they won’t have fingers

[jfish26]

It is a lot like Twitter was 15 years ago. This is a welcome thing.

[pdub]

It is a lot like Twitter was 15 years ago. This is a welcome thing.

I joined.
It's clean. It's what I expect to see.
Sorry Twitter, you're trash.

[jfish26]

It is a lot like Twitter was 15 years ago. This is a welcome thing.

I joined.
It's clean. It's what I expect to see.
Sorry Twitter, you're trash.

It's also much less throttled - there's a 'c' word out there that would move this to another thread - by the behind-the-scenes functionality. Which means that, at least for now, it's not a wretched griftopolis.

[BiggDick]

I signed up the other day.

Poked around a bit but didn’t find anything too interesting…yet

Also didn’t notice a way to search for photos and videos…maybe again yet

But otherwise just generally very excited for whatever will be the next big social media platform. And watching the other ones perish.

With the irony being, the next big social media platform would do itself and its users a favor to pretty much be just like what the social media platforms before they started sucking

[pdub]

The Portland Press Herald ( where I get my mid level local news - my even more local news I get from BUD's FB group and reddit ) has plans to abandon Twitter and post exclusively on Bluesky.
I think well regarded news sources/outlets will follow.

[jfish26]

I signed up the other day.

Poked around a bit but didn’t find anything too interesting…yet

Also didn’t notice a way to search for photos and videos…maybe again yet

But otherwise just generally very excited for whatever will be the next big social media platform. And watching the other ones perish.

With the irony being, the next big social media platform would do itself and its users a favor to pretty much be just like what the social media platforms before they started sucking

Is there really supposed to be anything interesting? Maybe I'm not making this point well, but kinda the whole point should be that the content is what the users bring to the table?

As opposed to the content that the site itself amplifies or even creates?

[BiggDick]

that's a good point.

I guess one of the first things I did was go search for KU basketball and Tyson fight highlights, and didn't find much of either.

but yea, I guess it's up to me to curate the feed I want now.

[jfish26]

that's a good point.

I guess one of the first things I did was go search for KU basketball and Tyson fight highlights, and didn't find much of either.

but yea, I guess it's up to me to curate the feed I want now.

This last part gives me the ol blinky-eyes.

[BiggDick]

zing!

would you rather curate for me?


(so far all I've followed are NPR and NYT.)

[pdub]

that's a good point.

I guess one of the first things I did was go search for KU basketball and Tyson fight highlights, and didn't find much of either.

but yea, I guess it's up to me to curate the feed I want now.

This last part gives me the ol blinky-eyes.

It's a fresh start/reboot.
Twitter/X's feed was not the feed I intended to curate. It 'curated' something I did not want.

[jfish26]

that's a good point.

I guess one of the first things I did was go search for KU basketball and Tyson fight highlights, and didn't find much of either.

but yea, I guess it's up to me to curate the feed I want now.

This last part gives me the ol blinky-eyes.

It's a fresh start/reboot.
Twitter/X's feed was not the feed I intended to curate. It 'curated' something I did not want.

Frankly, just the unasked-for stealth feed-switching (from the somewhat-juiced Following to the hilariously scale-thumbed For You) would have ... well, this next thing is more of a Pols bored opinion I suppose.

[BiggDick]

Fish trolling hard today.

[jfish26]

There's no trolling at all. I just have a feeling I know what certain people would have said about what happened with X, had it happened in the other direction.