What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
Got to be a podcast or something popular that Donald Trump appeared on
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#12On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html
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#13I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on twitter.
Biosci twitter -> BioSky?
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#15As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media.
One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.
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#16I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay.
The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
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#17What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
That was the time we learned about the changes to the block feature.
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#18On the topic of Bluesky stats, I just learned that blocks are effectively public via the API, so there's a hall of shame ranking the most blocked users on the site: https://vqv.app/blocks.html
A lot of Brazilians there. I guess it makes sense that they are a large portion of the user-base after Twitter got banned.
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#19What happened on Oct 17? I can't really find anything that would cause such a dramatic uptick on that day specifically.
That was the time we learned about the changes to the block feature.
That, and the TOS update which now requires users to give X blanket permission to use their posts for AI training (previously you could opt-out). Not that AI companies really care whether they have permission right now, but if legal precedent doesn't go their way then coercing users into "giving permission" by burying it within 50 pages of TOS legalese will be the fallback plan.
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#20What's preventing everyone from putting their faith in another broadcast medium just to have it sold to Elon again? It's hard to trust social media these days. They have 0 incentive to be "good" from a variety of perspectives not just political.
because it's not centralized and you can self host it.