Official account of Bluesky announced that it got 1 million new users since the registration was opened to everyone.
I don’t think Bluesky is better than any instance on Fediverse, but we need to make changes I guess.
If it kills Twitter it will be a net benefit to the world
It won’t be, because it’s just another Twitter.
Lol, correct.
But Elon loses more money and we don’t have to hear about him or Twitter as much
Old twitter was bad, modern twitter pays to show everyone bigoted propaganda and actively courts Nazis. Mastodon is better, but most don’t want the inconveniences. So yeah blue sky it is
Mastodon’s AGPL license will always be better though
Yeah but if mastodon itself (the community and content) isn’t better, then it’s a moot point
Oh get the fuck out of here. All Bluesky has is celebrities and celebrity journalists, big fuckin whoop.
I’d way rather talk to real human beings instead of the Public Relations Team of a bunch of wankers.
Sorry, most humans are obsessive about stupid celebrity culture, and that doesn’t mean it’s a better product. It means it’s a more vapid product.
I’m glad blue sky exists for two reasons:
- It will likely contribute to more Elon meltdowns
- It acts as a containment zone for celebrity and brand worship that’s marginally less bad than twitter
Amen…
Settle down dude.
A big chunk of the comic art people from twitter went there. The art community on Mastodon is very mid. So that’s a big part of why I like Bluesky.
And while I don’t care about following journalists personally, that’s arguably one of the major things people want out of a twitter-like platform. Breaking news.
Threads is much worse for celebrity bullshit.
I’m on Lemmy, I’m already sold on the fediverse idea, even though I haven’t read the AGPL license :)
I really wanna like mastodon more and have tried 3 different instances now (2 niche and one larger instance) but I like the community on bluesky better for my particular niche. It seems to be where a lot of art twitter went when things got shitty over there.
I saw many artists going to Misskey.io because it’s main instance even English speaking ones until they gone back to twitter, stayed on Misskey or half measures. Then because of EN influx in mainly Japanese server , Misskey.io closed doors to non-Japanese add in fact that Misskey or rather any federated service can’t oblige to European Union protection standard which means they can’t operate in EU officially.
So I see lots of messages on Misskey about artists making blue sky accounts as well… All depends where they get more views I guess or have people supporting them around.
Not comparable, one is centered around people and the other around topics
Bot farms are always early adopters
lmk when they bother to federate.
otherwise it’s just a worse twitter.
I signed up and so far my feed seems to be dominated by a lot of bird pics. I guess that’s fitting for a site called bluesky?
Unless they’re owls as they’re nocturnal. Blacksky doesn’t have the same vibe though.
I just wish it supported hashtags, the feeds thing it has going on feels clumsy. Sticking to Mastodon for now.
I just learned this yesterday, and still can’t believe it. How can it not support hashtags? How do you find anything? Do they plan on supporting hashtags in the future, or are they on some kind of idiotic anti-hashtag crusade?
My guess is that hashtags are “Twitter“, and they don’t want to be exactly like Twitter.
That’s great news. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Imagine purposefully giving a mewling quim like JACK direct access to your data ever again, just to sell it all to Elon Musk, again, again. People are in fact, sheep.
@downpunxx @fin Well, it is possible without any problem, to create a “fire hose” out of Fediverse data as well. So when someone wanted to analyze your posts, then this could be done easily with the Fediverse as well.
For values of public posts, yes.
My default for new posts is followers only and I have approve followers checked. (And I’m pretty picky, so far.)
More to the point, the discussion started out about the back end (whoever is in control of the servers selling all your data straight out of the database) and you’re referring to the front end (using a tool to scrape as much posted content as possible).
@heavyboots No, I don’t speak about any front end tool. There are API endpoints, relay servers and so on. These all can easily be used to receive a lot of data.
Yeah, this. People doing it again?
Jack is (or was) a muskrat fan, I’ll probably migrate there when every artist that I care about starts going, but I prefer to stay here and on misskey.
The only thing I care about is: Will this be enough to pull critical mass from Twitter? I don’t think I’ll ever join, because twitter life made me very unhappy, but the sooner journalists and high-volume celebs move off twitter, the sooner it can be relegated to Truth Social 2 and that, I think, will make the world a slightly better place.
The best thing about bluesky is they have the custom feeds and now you can have your following feed include some posts from your custom feeds. So its a mix of “following” (chronological) and for you (custom feed) which is great
