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Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by toomuchtodo »

JeremyNT wrote: post #138
timmg wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?

It's worth mentioning that X's problems with toxicity are greatly enhanced by its current leadership, so even if everybody switched to bsky tomorrow it would be different. There are far better tools for users to manage their own experience on bsky than X allows. But, assume that bsky does turn to shit too... if nothing else the (successful?) migration from X shows that people are capable of moving - should bsky face…

Campaign [https://freeourfeeds.com/] aims to safeguard social media from billionaires using Bluesky's tech [AT Protocol] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686651

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by freitasm »

xiphias2 wrote: post #110
thrance wrote: post #91

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X is already a far right echo chamber, if you create a new account and navigate to the "for you" page, all you see is Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate and other far right "role models". It's unfortunate that X still retains a greater reach than its alternatives, but that can change in the medium term.

Then just don't navigate to For You. I wish I could just see my friends on Facebook (those are the people I care about), but I can't turn off crappy suggestions. With X I can control my own feed by using the followers tab.

On that note, Facebook suggestions are 3:1 or 4:1 in relation to my friends.

The reason I only visit FB once a month to check for messages from some people who still use Messenger.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by hnburnsy »

r00fus wrote: post #81
daft_pink wrote: post #55

The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber. My experience using let’s quit “insert company name” is that these echo chambers tend to be toxic and terrible. IE.. Gab, Truth Social, etc. It’s very difficult to do unless you can have broad consensus. I tend to use Twitter for an industry wide group and while a few individuals have moved, the Bluesky version just doesn’t have the reach or usefulness of the twit…

This will eventually shift. There is legitimately very little reason to use X unless you're a Musk-stan. Case in point: I started using twitter regularly during the CA fires & blackouts in 2017. I was amazed at how quickly I could get a read on a situation and actual on the ground facts at near real-time speed. For the Palisades fire, I'm struggling to make X nearly as useful as it was. There is a lot of random diatr…

>There is legitimately very little reason to use X

Unless you are a sports fan.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by verdverm »

timmg wrote: post #27
jsheard wrote: post #3

Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.

Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?

It will be better because Bluesky gives users control of the algo & moderation via the open ATProto(col). We get choice and competition without the switching cost (after you move over to ATProto)

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by verdverm »

cobertos wrote: post #87
a12k wrote: post #43

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I found the moderation and choosing your own feed with blocklists so far implies that even if you copied and pasted all the odious people from Twitter, I still would never see them, nor would any other thinking person, and they would die in darkness. Also, there are examples of the most odious people joining and BlueSky banning them sua sponte almost immediately. So, I am optimistic.

Do you have any examples of the odious people being banned? It was my understanding that with most social networks the moderation is usually very opaque/can only be gleaned from public comments. Examples would help to understand how BlueSky would systematically moderate differently than Twitter (or what the ban process is like). Interestingly, if blocks are public, I guess you can audit the state of the interconnecte…

For all the whining about being blocked on Bluesky, no account has crossed the 100k blocking mark, far less than 1% of the user base

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Post by unsnap_biceps »

jasonjmcghee wrote: post #63
jsheard wrote: post #3

Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.

I'm not sure why but blue sky serves me a lot of very specific content I'm not interested in seeing and no matter how many dozens of pictures I choose (show less like this) on, it continues to show. I've basically stopped using it.

I don't think the "show less like this" works on photos. It seems to work well on text posts.

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Post by evanelias »

cyberge99 wrote: post #133
fsckboy wrote: post #127

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> unless you're a Musk-stan what's a -stan? do you mean like kazakhstan?

STalker / fAN. I think it’s attributable to the Eminem son Stan about a stalker. Likely even predates that.

It definitely doesn't predate the song, at least by my memory. (and fwiw, Wikipedia, Know Your Meme, Urban Dictionary, and Oxford English Dictionary all credit the song and have no references prior to that.)

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Post by jsbisviewtiful »

timmg wrote: post #27
jsheard wrote: post #3

Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.

Curious: what happens when Bluesky has all the same people/posts as Twitter? Will it be any better? Or will it just be the same thing on a new website?

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