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Post by k12sosse » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 12:20 AM UTC

blurrybird wrote: post #140

rconti wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel much the same way. Facebook tried to sell me on threads by showing me an ad with 2.5 threads visible: one of them was clearly a racist post that I didn't want to see the conclusion of, the other was clearly a liberal outrage thread about how much money Jeff Bezos makes that I ALSO didn't want to see the end of, and the third was a mostly-obscured post by a ceramic artisan I follow. They don't seem to have any…

This experience always shocks me because it’s not aligned with my own. Even on Twitter I never saw that junk. I followed almost exclusively tech folk, AWS community heros, NodeJS developers, Architects and Platform Engineers. I’m not even a developer, but I followed them to be exposed more to that topic. As a result, my feed was 99.9% technical content and product management content. I got the same result in under an…

Post by dylan604 » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 12:21 AM UTC

teamspirit wrote: post #117

mullingitover wrote: post #98

Bluesky's big selling point is that it's an open protocol, but it's their own homegrown protocol that nobody else is using. Meanwhile Threads has working ActivityPub[1]. You can see threads posts on Mastodon. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-ac...

I remember so many people who said, “yeah right, Threads will never connect to Mastodon,” and yet here we are. What a time to be alive?

Post by AgentME » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

nomilk wrote: post #156

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…

Via heavy use of the ”Hide|Show Less|Not Interested” button I’ve managed to get youtube recommendations surprisingly relevant, and a big surprise was facebook reels, which started as complete junk, and is now an astonishing mix of science (startalk, Tom Scott, Physics Girl, colour theory) and nature videos. It’s arguably the most relevant “tv” I’ve ever seen. I suspect curation on Twitter is solvable, but neither Twi…

Post by doublerabbit » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 12:23 AM UTC

duxup wrote: post #135

rglullis wrote: post #132

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> 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…

Post by brundolf » Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 12:23 AM UTC

twobitshifter wrote: post #177

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…

I thought I read that BlueSky was envisioned as a migration of all of twitter to a federated platform by Dorsey. Critical mass wouldn’t be a problem if that’s right.