Can I import my old data from Twitter to Bluesky?
Yes you can, with this web extension https://github.com/kawamataryo/sky-follower-bridge
Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
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Now it's an even worse echo chamber, but it is now one you happen to feel comfortable with.
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#143I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly. I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
I like it a lot too, and my feed is pretty good. Unfortunately adoption is really slow and few of the really famous people I'd like to follow seem to care about it.
The network effects of Twitter/X are just incredibly powerful. Even many people who ostensibly dislike the fact that it has become a right wing propaganda tool seem reluctant to actually leave.
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#144Bluesky 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 w…
Here is a graph where someone actually measured the engagement across the two platforms, and it backs your suspicion that engagement level per follower is much higher on BlueSky than on Twitter:
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewdessler.com/post/3laphnufp222...
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tolerance indeed means tolerating the intolerant as well, otherwise it's just another name for intolerance. It's clear we completely forgot that in our polarised world.
Tolerating intolerance is completely unacceptable. How can you justify accepting and tolerating someone who’s point of view is I think you should have less rights than me .
This is called the Paradox of Tolerance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Essentially you should be tolerant of others, unless they themselves are intolerant.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if social networks continue to bifurcate? Truth Social, Gab and X on the right and Mastadon, BlueSky on the left and Threads somewhere in between focused on celebrities? This article suggests that there is a bifurcation happening: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/29/elon-mu...
They will remain bifurcated so long as some platforms censor political dissent while others do not.
Low and behold, no response. Only downvote. Because there doesn't exist a legitimate argument against is, so all that is left is to be mad
Re: Bluesky adds 700k new users in a week
#149I can attest that BlueSky is really nice right now. Feels less combative than Twitter. I started to use it 25 days ago and got 400 or so follows pretty quickly. I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
I like it a lot too, and my feed is pretty good. Unfortunately adoption is really slow and few of the really famous people I'd like to follow seem to care about it. The network effects of Twitter/X are just incredibly powerful. Even many people who ostensibly dislike the fact that it has become a right wing propaganda tool seem reluctant to actually leave.
The network effects are powerful, but anecdotally I've noticed fewer and fewer people I follow actually posting anything to Twitter.
I think there'll be a tipping point where nobody of value is posting enough for anybody else to bother checking in, death spiralling its usefulness. It's already 80% bots, grifters, and engagement farmers.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
it was never going to die overnight though. It's had a steady decline since the takeover.
Musk is claiming that it recently reached record usage highs, as measured by "user seconds". It's a bit unclear whether he is counting X as a different platform to Twitter though, and "user seconds" is pushed upwards by video content that takes longer to consume. But usage hasn't obviously declined since the takeover either. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1854777813464662307
I always assume the worst possible interpretation of any numbers falling out of Elon's mouth.