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Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by unethical_ban »

ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

Perhaps the Bluesky recommendations are less tailored/curated and have to do with globally trending comments. Which while having some downsides, it is nice that the filter bubble doesn't close around someone too quickly.

I also assume that Bluesky as the political refugee camp from Twitter means it has a lot of participation from the liberally politically active at this moment.

(Patton Oswald's post was not vile, just to be clear).

Honestly I thought Mastodon and Bluesky were part of the same fediverse, I guess I need to do some learning.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by arrobbiato »

ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

Oswalt, not Oswald.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by halyconWays »

ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

I think Bluesky's content is largely defined by the crowd of people that left Twitter. Like Voat when Reddit had its embrace of censorship, only the other way around: opposite politics, and it's more based around being upset that perceived extremists are being given a platform.

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Post by tdb7893 »

jimbob45 wrote: post #28
smt88 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it's not an odd coincidence. It's an explicit response to Musk's Nazi salute.

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A full day seems like a pretty reasonable timeframe for something big to spread on social media (I'm not even gonna touch however you're trying to connect this to BLM). Reddit mods are probably literally some of the most "online" people imaginable so once something is on the front page in one or two major subreddit they are gonna be aware within a couple hours, idk why anyone would think this would need even 24 hours to spread

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by tpm »

ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

> I'm not sure why we are not all on Mastodon it's similiar content to this site.

Mastodon is a nonprofit and a federated network with no single powerful entity marketing and managing it. It does not have enough pull.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by mft_ »

jimbob45 wrote: post #28
smt88 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but it's not an odd coincidence. It's an explicit response to Musk's Nazi salute.

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I think you’re looking for a conspiracy that’s just not there.

It’s just people seeing an idea and jumping on the bandwagon. Plus, if you look at lots of the threads, there are already a pent-up dissatisfaction with the user experience of links to X, so the door was partly open.

Re: Show HN: I organized Bluesky feeds by categories and growth rankings

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

halyconWays wrote: post #33
ipaddr wrote: post #30

I went to the homepage for the first time. First post was someone saying they want to be a designer for the campaign that had Waltz name on it. Then you have Patton Oswald tell people never be friends with Nazis because they have Nazi friends. I decided to visit twitter homepage but it asked me to signin. I went to the homepage for Mastodon. It had comments about new science discoveries, tech, some politics but more…

I think Bluesky's content is largely defined by the crowd of people that left Twitter. Like Voat when Reddit had its embrace of censorship, only the other way around: opposite politics, and it's more based around being upset that perceived extremists are being given a platform.

This is incidentally why Mastodon seems to be less bad now. That group of people went there first, but then Mastodon's user growth stalled by some strange coincidence. Then they didn't want to be on the one that was apparently in decline so more of them switched to Bluesky.

Which is kind of sad because from a technical perspective Bluesky seems to have some advantages (provided they fully extricate any dependencies on the corporate entity soon, which is supposedly the plan, but we've seen this play before and know one of the ways it can end).

Whereas Mastodon/ActivityPub has some flaws that are going to cause real long-term problems if they're not addressed, e.g. tying accounts to a specific instance combined with the propensity for instances to ban other entire instances or ban small/new instances by default, which will have the unfortunate propensity for market concentration. Which is almost like the opposite problem: Instead of being centralized right now but they might fix it later, it's federated right now but they might break it later.

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