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Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by xk_id »

quantadev wrote: post #203
xk_id wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two obvious examples are the pushback against lgbt awareness and elon’s use of twitter to algorithmically suppress the reach of leftwing accounts.

I'm a Free Speech advocate in general, but after a decade of Censorship, Cancel Culture, and Shadow-banning of Conservatives (which Twitter DENIED they were doing, the entire time), I'm fully in favor of a full decade of payback from Elon. Let that sink in.

The bottom line is that your first post is a mirror reflection of yourself. Beyond this, I don't really care how you excuse your hypocrisy.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by quantadev »

xk_id wrote: post #211
quantadev wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Free Speech advocate in general, but after a decade of Censorship, Cancel Culture, and Shadow-banning of Conservatives (which Twitter DENIED they were doing, the entire time), I'm fully in favor of a full decade of payback from Elon. Let that sink in.

The bottom line is that your first post is a mirror reflection of yourself. Beyond this, I don't really care how you excuse your hypocrisy.

Guilty as charged. Meant every word.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by kaycey2022 »

taeric wrote: post #113

Hard not to think this is a lot of bots, though? I had an account, but didn't make the jump from Twitter. May succeed next try, though.

Could they even mitigate bots without tying accounts to government ID? You’re gonna get bots anyway. I like it that at least it’s an open platform.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by taeric »

kaycey2022 wrote: post #213
taeric wrote: post #113

Hard not to think this is a lot of bots, though? I had an account, but didn't make the jump from Twitter. May succeed next try, though.

Could they even mitigate bots without tying accounts to government ID? You’re gonna get bots anyway. I like it that at least it’s an open platform.

World token or whatever the Altman thing was was an attempt.

I'm torn. Agreed that allowing machine accounts is good. Not keen on jumping into a bot filled ecosystem. Especially with no way to see reputation that is more grounded in at least a presumably human element.

That is, if you allow bots, how do you limit bots signal boosting each other?

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by melodyogonna »

llm_trw wrote: post #175
delecti wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.

Serious question here, I use Twitter all the time but I still don't understand this. What do people mean when they say Twitter is toxic?

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by valval »

delecti wrote: post #171
llm_trw wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open https://bsky.app/ in incognito mode and you get to see the front page. Currently the top post on the latest refresh is: >I'm honestly surprised he hasn't started selling stool samples. His followers have been buying his BS for years, so it seems like a natural next step... https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb... This is not a network I want to join if this is the popular content. We've be…

You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

You seem to be advocating going to a party where the lobby is full of people yelling about something annoying, and then pushing past them to some separate room where those same people are talking about something else, for the moment.

I’d rather pick a different party.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by rsynnott »

skybrian wrote: post #109
epistasis wrote: post #34

Back in the news net days, there used to be a parable about a Berkeley hot tub. The owner would give out the code to people, and it would be a good party with a rotating cast of characters for a while, until eventually a few people ruined the party. Then the code would change, and a different crew would start coming through. Pre-Elon, it seemed that Twitter was doing a pretty good run of keeping a single social netwo…

These starter packs sound like a good idea, but I have a hard time using them to find interesting people to follow. When I look at at the "People" tab, they look like pretty impressive people (academics, etc), and then I look at the "Posts" tab and it's the usual noise: cat pictures, politics, etc. Not a lot of signal.

I mean, academics are allowed have cats, too.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by rsynnott »

genem9 wrote: post #143
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #92

No one has called me a shitlord, cuck, idiot, or otherwise implied I’m stupid for the entire time I’ve used it. It’s great. The tech community on there is really solid, at least insofar as my interests go.

What happens when they do, are you going to leave?

It has pretty good blocking/custom moderation tools.

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by lylo »

taeric wrote: post #139
thewanderer1983 wrote: post #106

Am I missing something, or is the heading misleading. Where is the 1M gained users a day? I see statistics on likes, followers etc. Nothing here shows gain in 1M user accounts a day.

I was confused on that, too. At the top, says 18m users total. So, for how many days did the headline mean? Was it <10 recently?

Last 3 or 4 days has been 1m/day

https://bsky-users.theo.io/

Re: Bluesky is currently gaining more than 1M users a day

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Post by lylo »

travisporter wrote: post #146

Why isn’t there an app that just posts to blue sky mastodon and twitter? I find it annoying that companies and some gov depts post on twitter only and for some reason I keep needing to verify my account so I can’t ever see a chronological timeline

There are a few that do this but most don’t do X because of the exorbitant cost of API access
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