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Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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How does it compare to threads?

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

> no news/politics

I kinda like the IDEA there, but no idea how you separate things like “I’m concerned about my individual rights” from politics?

And usually when people say “no politics” they mean “no politics I don’t like “.

Still in sympathize with the idea, I want to hear from people about what they’re doing and so forth, not a rehash of the news.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".

But would you be happy with a graph? or would the goal posts then be moved to 'show us the data behind the graph'. and so on.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Bluesky is pretty decent so far. I get about as many responses to my art as I do with twitter, despite having 1/5th the followers on the new platform.

The problem is I don't see much interesting on Bluesky. It's endless people saying "Hello, bluesky! I'm new here!" or "Hello, new bluesky users! Follow me!" Feels like there's less focus on content and more on the individuals themselves. It's further exemplified with weird stuff like "Bulgarian game devs with webbed toes between the ages of 33 and 47 Starter Pack". These starter packs get spammed nonstop and it makes it feel very cliquey, with lots of them being groups that had some degree of twitter "influence" trying to bring it over to Bluesky as-is and without others butting in.

Another thing that's strange to me is that lots of bluesky users post selfies almost nonstop and half of users have selfies as their profile photos. Which, I mean, that's their right. But I feel like with twitter, nobody cared what you looked like or what your background was.

I post on both, but I mainly browse twitter despite having no fondness for the dude running it. I never interact with political slop on twitter so its algorithm only suggests me incredible art. I never interact with selfies but bluesky keeps throwing them at me. Like, no, I really do not care about your cute new lipstick or whatever. I don't care about political hot takes. I just want to see art. And like 50% of it is art. But the other 50% is an endless feed of "look at me! As in literally, look at my face!" that I just cannot get rid of.

Maybe someday the novelty of it being the "new" thing will fade and the selfie obsessed people will go away while content will rise up, like it did with twitter. I hope so.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

#44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> How do I verify the data? Trust me bro? The lede is literally "Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in the last week and now has more than 14.5 million users total, Bluesky COO Rose Wang confirmed to The Verge." Companies intentionally lying about their data is a good way for them to get sued.

I read the article. When and how did Rose Wang reported the numbers? Over the phone? E-mail? Shows us the graph. The trends. At least something. I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".

>I'm personally no longer buying the "increase in hate speech on X".

You used to believe that there was an increase in hate speech on Twitter but now you no longer believe that?

What did you base your original belief about the amount of hate speech on? What led to your belief changing?

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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Probably some internal dashboard using Tableau. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

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I'm trying to make sense of someone being as irrationally skeptical of the reporting as you are who also somehow believes that a screenshot of all things proves anything and I just can't do it.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

> no news/politics I kinda like the IDEA there, but no idea how you separate things like “I’m concerned about my individual rights” from politics? And usually when people say “no politics” they mean “no politics I don’t like “. Still in sympathize with the idea, I want to hear from people about what they’re doing and so forth, not a rehash of the news.

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Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

Also no porn, since Twitter is the only mainstream platform that allows porn, a real competitor would have to allow porn as well.

There's lots of porn on Bluesky but it tends to be, uh, niche.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

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post #9

How does it compare to threads?

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

Threads only fed me straight up celebrity posts, despite having absolutely zero interest in that, when I signed up back when it was new. I can't imagine how much worse it is now.

Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week

#50
post #9

How does it compare to threads?

Threads has become worse over time due to a series of anti-user policy decisions (no news/politics) and a very weird Discover algorithm that strongly incentivizes clickbait (and said feed is the default on the app and cannot be changed)

a) Given what happened with X during the election, Meta unquestionably made the right call with Threads. If you want news/politics then simply follow your desired journalists. But forcing it on people who don't want it is not making the world better. It's just allowing bad actors a clear vector on how to make it worse.

b) You can switch to the chronological feed which is much better. But as you say you can't make it the default.

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