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As a platform trying to connect aspiring founders with successful experts, is it worth creating a Bluesky grouping consisting of founders, ceo's and successful experts wanting to help aspiring founder. Goal is to gain traction for https://www.gravi.co
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Verifying your identity on Mastodon is for everyone as well and based on open web standards. https://joinmastodon.org/verification
Problem with Mastodon is you’re forced to associate with the identity of the sever or run your own instance, both of which are very awkward. I’m @bradgessler@ruby.social, but I’m more than a Ruby dev. I could run a Mastadon instance for bradgessler.com, but I have no desire to spend even 3 minutes figuring out how to set all that up. Maintaining my own instance sounds even worse. Bluesky gets the ergonomics of this r…
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How does it compare to Threads?
The loudest complaint I see about threads (lack of hyperlinks) doesn't apply there. Also, Threads seems covered in growth-hacking dark patterns, like the notification/activity screen being flooded with "picked for you". edit: my big worry about BSky is the lack of any coherent monetization plan. This isn't community-funded stuff like Mastodon, it's VC-funded software - there will be a need for revenue at some point a…
Strange. Have been on Threads since launch and have never seen this.
Nor have I seen any growth-hacking dark patterns other than the For You algorithm pushing high-engagement content which they've said they are sorting out. But a lot of this is because Threads has the legacy of being built on Instagram.
Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…
I never really "got" Twitter. I don't know why, but I always felt like the hype went over me head, and it was a bit boring. Though I'm tempted to check out Bluesky, the AT protocol seems really interesting.
Mastodon is cool, but it's hard to consistently find that local info. Bluesky seems like it has a chance of supplanting Twitter in this way, but it's not there yet. Some of the accounts I used to follow on Twitter are on Bluesky, but they don't post. If they started, I think they'd get tons of followers now.
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Nobody important or relevant enough is moving to Mastodon.
One can engage on multiple platforms. Don't have to leave something else to use Mastodon.
Sure, and those who have a technically savvy audience can use Mastodon can post on multiple platforms.
In this instance of bad changes X has made, the majority of those who are moving away from X this time round are more likely not going to engage on Mastodon as a second platform.
Too much hassle for them.
They are more likely to engage on platforms that have more engagement, like Bluesky or Threads.
I cannot see artists, journalists, etc going to Mastodon when X makes changes to their platform time and time again.
As a platform trying to connect aspiring founders with successful experts, is it worth creating a Bluesky grouping consisting of founders, ceo's and successful experts wanting to help aspiring founder. Goal is to gain traction for https://www.gravi.co
It would be interesting to see a community onboarded where everyone's username is a subdomain @name.gravi.co, so people know they're officially associated. There's lots of software folk there so it would probably be a good place to try.
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For me, everything is settling. Threads is a half Twitter, half Instagram hybrid strong in creative, travel, social etc type content. Bluesky is original Twitter with strengths in news, politics, science etc. These days not sure it will ever be possible to have one app that does it all. Which leaves X as the new 4chan.
In terms of toxicity, X is way beyond 4chan at this point. But the style is very different. Algorithmic vs organic, retweets vs (You)s, anonymous vs semi-anonymous and much more. All the way to how replies are visually presented which is awful on Twitter and it's clones. Honestly, I've had more positive interactions and learned more on 4chan than I ever have on Twitter. I wish the few tech people I care about who are…
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If you are good about curating your follows, you can get a nice nonpolitical feed on Bluesky. That said this is definitely not the week to try to calibrate that, since everyone currently has Big Feelings even if they're normally not overtly political.
Fair enough. My issue is that it seems people have Big Feelings for one reason or another since 2015 and increasingly so. I really do not wish to have to work to train the "algo", especially when Twitter-like social media is worse than useless. It takes no time for my favourite people I follow to suddenly start spamming my timeline with the drama-du-jour. On these social networks, either you are (un)willingly enliste…
So you have complete control.
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Seems to me like Jarkko Oikarinen or one of his crew invented hashtags, no? Denoting the context of your communication with something like #warez or #hack significantly predates web2.0.
Rather I think Twitter-style hashtags take inspiration from IRC channels in the format of # topic Because channel names are not hashtags. The syntax is purely because IRC is a text-based protocol, so you need a special way to distinguish channel names from regular text.
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Another argument is that it could lead to a bot problem 10x worse than twitters ever was.
The Twitter bot situation only seems to have got worse since they shut down free API access. LLM engagement farming bots everywhere in replies, hordes of scam bots replying if you use certain keywords, porn bots following and DMing everyone non-stop... Evidently the people running the bots don't really care whether or not you give them an API to work with.
I would usually get support to manually unlock it after a few days by emailing them and mentioning why I didn't want to give them a phone number. Now the process only involves solving captchas. (and maybe some hidden waiting)