Big celebrities/influencers and news media need to leave X for this to have an effect. Nothing will change as long as both of those user types remain on the platform.
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#162It is consistently astonishing that the IT sector is predominantly inhabited by individuals of a leftist persuasion, despite the fact that disciplines such as programming ought to instil a strong foundation in mathematics, logic, and structured thinking, which are typically associated with right-leaning thinking.
You spelled authoritarian wrong.
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#163But I like X :(
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#164Bluesky is the closest thing to Twitter nowadays. Was hoping for Threads to work out but it seems less organic than Bluesky.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
For football (soccer), Reddit is much better.
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#167I'll stay on X. May quit who wants. Me not.
The silent majority.
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#168I moved over from Twitter to Bluesky with the big wave (I've been using it since mid-2023 however). It's everything I've wanted from the community to the engagement. What's more, I'm not punished for linking to my blog! Everything I could have asked for. My profile in case you want to follow: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net
I've gradually moved over to Mastodon for most of my posting. The pocket of Fedi I reside within (queer fedi) is quite nice. Last year, I seriously started using Bluesky. It's okay, but a little too much like "old Twitter" for my tastes. I still use it, but my most interesting posts go on Fedi. This is all to say, Bluesky has replaced Twitter for me, but I was already phasing it out.
I found the same. It's impressive how much bluesky resembles twitter, but I'm not sure if that's a compliment.
On Mastadon I find much smaller circles, but much more engaged.
I think bluesky is winning at discovery. If I want to feel the pulse on a topic, bluesky is winning. If I'm not even aware there's a topic that I want to feel the pulse on, bluesky is winning. But I think mastadon has been successful at curating a very different 'vibe', and I appreciate it. So I catch up on mastadon first, and then doomscroll bluesky if I need to find work for idle hands.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious :why Bluesky and not Mastodon? I would have thought that decentralization would be a better safeguard against Bluesky becoming Twitter after being successful... Honest question: I left Twitter so long ago (I guess that I never got it) and am not really using Mastodon... so I think that I'm not the right people
Bluesky is much easier to use than Mastodon, particularly for non-technical folks. It’s also has an UI that looks a lot like Twitter from 2-3 years ago.
I feel like “much” is an exaggeration. In my day to day use, the only annoyance I regularly run into is having to tap an extra link or two in order to follow someone on a different network.
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Is there a personal reason you have to keep with it at all at that level? Not doubting you do, but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to.
> but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to.
Wow delving deep into people's psyche and calling them out on HN, why ?