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Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by selykg »

rvz wrote: post #98
upofadown wrote: post #60

Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers: * https://mastodonserver.ca/

> Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. How many people are boycotting these US products which specifically includes not using iPhones, Macs, Android and Windows devices? Out of that, how many are going to bother to choose to sign up to a Mastodon instance that is only hosted in Canada and use it for more than a year? My guess is a very small number of…

Boycotts can take on different levels. I'd personally say that if you already own an iPhone, Android phone, Mac or PC, you've already given them your money, but you can absolutely refuse to give more the next time around and buy something from another manufacturer that's not US based. But it doesn't make sense to just throw out your perfectly fine $1000+ device just to "stick it to the man."

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by Lutger »

linuxftw wrote: post #88

The reason Twitter was successful is they paid celebrities and corporations to join their network. That usage seems to have waned in favor of Instagram, but Twitter is still the #1 place for breaking news, especially in the sports world. I think many people supporting bluesky assume the value is in attracting the plebeians. I don't see that being the case. There are already Facebook groups and reddit (among tradition…

Not yet, but in the echo chamber I dwell in, a lot of orgs are joining Bluesky, and most actually left X. These are mostly journalists, scientists or people involved in politics.

At some point, it may become impossible for some of these groups - probably starting with journalists - to do their work and not be on bluesky. They will be on X and bluesky. Maybe. If it happens, then bluesky will eventually replace X. Because it will not be long before it will also be possible to leave X, probably the last to do so will also be journalists. Its more efficient that way. Then it will be just nazis and shitposters on X, and X will go the way of Digg and MySpace.

Alternatively, Twitter could also fragment completely and we'll never have an equivalent network again. There's no law stating we must have a single such network where are the celebs, news orgs and scientists hang out.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by bloopernova »

My experience with bsky.app is good so far. It's more like twitter was before 2015: I've had enjoyable conversations with a few different people, blocked some trolls, and discovered some new history books to read.

The XBlock Screenshot Labeler moderation service has mostly kept the reposted screenshots to a minimum. When reporting a post you can choose which service to inform, so a screenshot would get reported to XBlock rather than the bsky.app mod team. https://bsky.app/profile/xblock.aendra.dev

I assume that more moderation services will get plugged in as the site grows. It's an interesting model/protocol/service.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by fastball »

torben-friis wrote: post #100

Has anyone managed to get a "functioning" tech discussion feed on bluesky? I tried not long ago, mostly help me get acquaintanced with the ruby ecosystem and news, but even using starter packs and the like the best I got was following devs that mostly talked about non tech stuff (personal life, politics and the like). Particularly annoying was the constant "we hate twitter" posts (I know, I'm here now, so why are we…

That's just the state of devs these days.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by llm_nerd »

madeofpalk wrote: post #80
bpoyner wrote: post #73

You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.

...how? What feed? Is she following people who post dick pics? Not doubting her experience, but I've never experienced this (accidentally).

Some of the algorithmic feeds on Bluesky feature a non-zero number of dudes holding their dicks (posted without NSFW tagging). "What's Hot Classic" has a serious problem with this. And no, this isn't personalized at all.

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/feed/hot-classic

That feed was defaulted for my account so for the longest time I assumed the community there was largely gay men (along with a surprising percentage of weird furry stuff). And good for them, but it just wasn't my kink to see dudes holding their dicks or sexy animal illustrations in my feed.

The discover feed seems to be absent this problem. But WHC should be either given a warning to user or at a minimum start doing some "guy holding his dick" AI inference and auto-tag those posts.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by MD87 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #80
bpoyner wrote: post #73

You mean the social network that keeps showing my wife dick pics even though she turned off adult content? That social network? Pass.

...how? What feed? Is she following people who post dick pics? Not doubting her experience, but I've never experienced this (accidentally).

Any kind of third-party what's hot/trending feed seems to. I guess they get a lot of likes in certain circles...

e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dbipwza2663x6hfp2purbn7i/fe...

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by sylware »

donohoe wrote: post #58
sylware wrote: post #37

And does it have interop with noscript/basic (x)html browser?

You’re welcome to check for yourself?

That was irony to show X or bluesky, same same, just censorship done by differently opiniated people.

Ofc, it does not work because they are the same.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by scirob »

mpalmer wrote: post #91
upofadown wrote: post #60

Bluesky is less attractive right now to Canadians who are participating in the boycott of US products. So Mastodon seems a better fit. There is even a collector page for Canadian Mastodon servers: * https://mastodonserver.ca/

So instead of paying Bluesky nothing to commiserate with millions of Americans who hate Trump and the tariffs too, you intend to isolate?

Isolation is indeed the vibe on mastodon. And they get upset when they realize that all their posts are publically boradcast over an open websocket api.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by cheeseface »

torben-friis wrote: post #100

Has anyone managed to get a "functioning" tech discussion feed on bluesky? I tried not long ago, mostly help me get acquaintanced with the ruby ecosystem and news, but even using starter packs and the like the best I got was following devs that mostly talked about non tech stuff (personal life, politics and the like). Particularly annoying was the constant "we hate twitter" posts (I know, I'm here now, so why are we…

I follow people mostly from the JS/TS web development community and have a pretty good balance of tech takes and some lighter life updates/humor in between. I mostly the "mutuals" and "popular with friends" tabs to check things out.

Every now and then there's too much US politics, but it's hard to escape nowadays.

Re: Bluesky now has 30 million users

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

speedgoose wrote: post #7
homebrewer wrote: post #3

You would think people would learn from their mistakes and not move onto another centralized platform backed by VC money, but here we are.

People don’t really care about decentralisation. Bluesky arrived at the right time, unlike Mastodon.

Helped by Mastodon having truly awful branding
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