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Post by rglullis »

npunt wrote: post #149
rglullis wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> which is what I'm really interested in. Whenever I see comments like these, my immediate thought is "How interested are you, if you had to put a dollar figure on it?" Also, you are missing alternative (e): availability bias. Maybe you haven't seen a lot of innovation around UX not because people are not trying, but because those who tried to experiment with different UX were aiming at such a niche that completely f…

At least for me, I've spent the last ~3 years designing new feature ideas for twitter and twitter-like products as a hobby and been involved in various communities working on these issues. Ways to improve quality of comments, reduce conflict, improve context, build media literacy, etc. I need to get around to publishing these ideas but have definitely put real work in. This is the only one I've published in blog form…

> designing new feature ideas for twitter and twitter-like products

Which is not the same as "innovating with UX" in any way that is incompatible with the status quo.

Going by your blog post, do you agree that it is not something that (by itself) a feature so innovative that would make people drop twitter to favor a new social network that implemented it?

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by edavis »

mminer237 wrote: post #48

It still doesn't seem to have a public feed though, so you can only view individual posts. I will say as someone has an invite: you're not missing out on anything. It definitely has far less activity than either Twitter or Threads, but somehow it also just has worse content. You would think they were invite-only to keep the quality high, but everything is either furry porn or hate-filled rage bait, neither of which I…

FWIW, this side of Bluesky definitely exists but if you're diligent about curating your follows and avoiding certain custom feeds this type of content is pretty easy to avoid. There is no blackbox algorithm blasting rage bait onto your timeline.

Depending on how you build your social graph, your experience can run the gamut of anything from peak political Twitter to peak pedantic Mastodon. It's up to you.

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Post by rglullis »

duxup wrote: post #135
rglullis wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> which is what I'm really interested in. Whenever I see comments like these, my immediate thought is "How interested are you, if you had to put a dollar figure on it?" Also, you are missing alternative (e): availability bias. Maybe you haven't seen a lot of innovation around UX not because people are not trying, but because those who tried to experiment with different UX were aiming at such a niche that completely f…

>failed as social network Is that the case? Serious question, I'm curious about any social networks that have tried some new UX? The twitter clones seem to play things very close to twitter's style. At least it looks that way to me as someone who isn't a heavy twitter user. Also what is "failed as a social network" when Twitter, one of the biggest bleeds money as it is? Is the market just messed up? Or maybe UX where…

> I'm curious about any social networks that have tried some new UX?

And I'm curious about flipping this question: can you think of any UX that would be interested for you in a social network?

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Post by madeofpalk »

blurrybird wrote: post #141
madeofpalk wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter, previously, was the best of both worlds. A first-party app “most” people used, and then a vibrant third party app ecosystem that others, mainly power users, loved.

Threads is this now. API is almost finished / ready for release.

You and I have very different definitions of "now" :)

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Post by [deleted] »

notnullorvoid wrote: post #147

Until I see what Bluesky's AT protocol federation looks like in practice, I'm not interested. Without federation it's basically Twitter with less users. And even after federation it might be Mastodon/ActivityPub with less users. Very disappointed in the direction they took to launch. Exclusive beta, no focus on decentralization despite that being the major selling point.

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Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by [deleted] »

autoexec wrote: post #145

>JavaScript Required This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is. Not for me I guess. When there's a nitter for bluesky (nuesky?) maybe I'll check that out. It looks like at least some of the text from the post is still visible maybe > ( 1.60 is rolling out now (2/5) Posts, profiles, and user search are now available with…

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Post by lairv »

brundolf wrote: post #20

It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…

You still need to get an invite / a waitlist to register or am I missing something ?

I don't know how you can expect people to make the move when they're not even able to sign in

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by Dalewyn »

duxup wrote: post #91

I've tried a few twitter alternatives (including Bluesky) as someone who hardly ever uses twitter anyway. I was a little disappointed how it just felt like ... more twitter. I'm browsing around finding mostly memes or outrage that doesn't have context to me. I fairly quickly get exhausted trying to find / curate content. I guess I should have expected it, but I hoped that somewhere a different network would have a di…

>why would a significant number of people move anyway?

The reality is it was only a significant minority.

Most people don't care that they /communicate on Mysterious Twitter X/, they just care about communicating and Mysterious Twitter X is just the dominant one of all the social media networks.

Then there's people like me who use Mysterious Twitter X for a very specific purpose. In my case, I use it to follow announcements from my favorite games (FGO, Priconne, etc.) and join their repost campaigns, get info from some game guide makers, follow some Japanese illustrators, and follow a small handful of Japanese celebrities I'm actually interested in. Exactly none of them left Mysterious Twitter X.

For my use case, Musk's takeover was actually amazing because he killed off the political manipulations that Twitter Japan was spewing behind the scenes. Ain't nobody got time for politics when I'm there to be a man of culture.

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