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Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by nitwit005 »

frithsun wrote: post #27

It's inevitable that social media will split up into separate and distinct networks of people who can no longer stand or even undertand the other sociopolitical tribes. All of us sharing a singular global network was an exceptional and ephemeral circumstance.

The press coverage is a bit misleading. Everyone is leaving Twitter. Liberals are just leaving faster.

Keep in mind that a lot of Twitter users never wanted political content. They were there for sports, art, science discussions, etc. Some of those communities are clearly migrating.

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Post by jazzyjackson »

threeseed wrote: post #8

People keep missing the point of Threads. It isn't designed to be a pure Twitter clone and doesn't want to become the public square for news, politics etc. It wants to be a text-centric network that helps release Instagram to be more video-centric to compete with TikTok. And so it wants content that is fun, interesting and light. And of course easily monetisable. So I know people like having a fight but I see the two…

Instagram was the only social network that kept me around because it was mostly art and nice photos. Recently i caught myself scrolling past endless videos and thought, shit, I've been tiktokked. Back to scrolling through hacker news comments to rot my brain instead.

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by virgildotcodes »

ipaddr wrote: post #224
virgildotcodes wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Substitute homosexuality, being transgender, or whatever you'd like.

Try words you may not like too like right wing or Trump supporter. Still work?

Being a right wing trump supporter is an immutable characteristic like being black or gay?

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by epistasis »

anon291 wrote: post #84
ks2048 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All politics aside (not a minor point for many), Twitter has been made much worse IMHO in the Musk era. They de-prioritize links, prevent 3rd party apps, closed the API, and blocked access for non-logged-in viewing. And a smaller meta-point: changed from an iconic name to a simple non-informative letter (Besides Google and maybe Uber, who have added a popular verb to the lexicon?)

I feel this is a downside only to a particular bunch. For most people, Twitter is doing better than ever. Community notes are amazing and innovative and should be adopted by every social media platform. X feels legitimately more fun than most other apps. Plus, at this point, I think a solid portion of people have been banned from social media apps. You can't exile your way towards whatever ideal society you want. The…

> For most people, Twitter is doing better than ever.

Citation needed...

Twitter went from a highly useful daily visit for getting news in my field to being a gigantic time suck to even try to avoid the politics and low-quality posts.

>enforced community separation is so prevalent among those who are so reticent to build a border wall

Ah, so you have a certain form of politics, and its beneficial. But Is that "most people" who are on Twitter, were on Twitter, or most people in general? If I want what Twitter is serving me, I can go to any sort of right-wing forum or Fox News article comments (do they still have comments?).

But for those of us that had practical uses for Twitter that weren't partisan politics, its value has been destroyed.

And ad revenue shows that "most people" definitely do not want to be associated with such partisan politics. Twitter's past neutrality allowed all sorts of political views. Now it's become an echo chamber as the owner pushes his own strong partisan politics, and pushes to spread extremist views that may be fine on 4chan, but that 95% of people would rather never expose themselves to.

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by jazzyjackson »

RickJWagner wrote: post #153

ICYMI, Actor/director/activist Rob Reiner just proclaimed Bluesky to be a racist platform full of evil. https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/rob-reiner-says-maga-scum-...

Catch me checking into a mental facility cause all the padded rooms online were taken

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by devnullbrain »

Der_Einzige wrote: post #230
emseetech wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI has the ability to overwhelm systems of moderation at a much greater scale than humans. That's the issue.

Good.

Care to share your IP address?

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by jaimex2 »

cynicalpeace wrote: post #160

I predict Bluesky will go the way of Threads and Mastodon.

Probably worse. Mastedon runs on self hosting, Threads has a parent company with deep pockets and is a Instgram mod at best.

Twitter burned cash for years and it could because it was new, innovative and growing quickly. Once BlueSky burns through its initial money whats the plan and why would anyone invest in it?

Re: Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter

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Post by jazzyjackson »

cryptica wrote: post #197

I refuse to use Bluesky because it is clearly being pushed on the masses, in collusion with mainstream media, as an alternative to X. Clearly another attempt by certain people to control information. It's shocking how people fall for this stuff over and over again. I hope if backfires, mostly draws in users from existing speech-unfriendly platforms and then the number of social media platforms will multiply from here…

I broadly agree with your perspective however I think you've missed that bluesky is specifically architected to facilitate the coexistence of bubbles : shared block lists, client based moderation, portability in case you account is banned from a particular host etc, Bluesky is well positioned for a future where cliques don't want to hear from one another
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