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Bluesky
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:14 pm
by 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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:25 pm
by 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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:03 pm
by pdub
White bread is a great match for BBQ.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 7:20 am
by KUTradition
Shirley wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2024 9:25 pm
I couldn't take Trad judging me every time I posted a link to twitter any longer.
you’re welcome
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 7:23 am
by 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
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 10:00 am
by BiggDick
rad!
now let's do this migration for Meta products too.
(guess this means Threads never took off?)
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 12:45 pm
by 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
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:39 am
by jfish26
It is a lot like Twitter was 15 years ago. This is a welcome thing.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:53 am
by pdub
jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:39 am
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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:16 am
by jfish26
pdub wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:53 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 7:39 am
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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:42 am
by 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
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:54 am
by 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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:57 am
by jfish26
BiggDick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 9:42 am
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?
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:11 am
by 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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:30 am
by jfish26
BiggDick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:11 am
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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:34 am
by BiggDick
zing!
would you rather curate for me?
(so far all I've followed are NPR and NYT.)
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:41 am
by pdub
jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:30 am
BiggDick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:11 am
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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 11:00 am
by jfish26
pdub wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:41 am
jfish26 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:30 am
BiggDick wrote: ↑Mon Nov 18, 2024 10:11 am
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.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 11:20 am
by BiggDick
Fish trolling hard today.
Re: Bluesky
Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2024 11:23 am
by 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.