The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix
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The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix
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#3Anecdotal but for my startup (caido.io) I have seen an uptick of follows this week on bluesky. I had abandoned hope a few months ago, but I will restart posting our company updates on it.
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#4Strange article, social media isn’t going anywhere, it’s just evolving. The decline of X is due to Elon, that’s all.
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#5-1 to the conclusion.
Counterexamples include LinkedIn, HN and various subreddits (not all) - they're operating at large scale, very lively but low levels of nasty (as a percentage).
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#6> I have written before in The Atlantic about a problem that I see as superordinate to all of these others: People just aren’t meant to talk with one another this much
The irony of publishing an article intended for a mass audience about how people shouldn't talk to each other. Obviously journalists are the only ones who can be trusted with such power...
Re: The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix
#7Strange article, social media isn’t going anywhere, it’s just evolving. The decline of X is due to Elon, that’s all.
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Re: The Bluesky Bubble: This is a relapse, not a fix
#8> I have written before in The Atlantic about a problem that I see as superordinate to all of these others: People just aren’t meant to talk with one another this much The irony of publishing an article intended for a mass audience about how people shouldn't talk to each other. Obviously journalists are the only ones who can be trusted with such power...
publishing != talking
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#10Unless Bluesky or Threads tap into the Zeitgeist, Twitter isn't going anywhere. As much as whatever political side would love to see it falter, those invested in its downfall might have to temper their expectations. Twitter is a mirror of the human fabric — messy, contradictory, brutal. For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time.