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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 anon291 »

epistasis wrote: post #235
anon291 wrote: post #84

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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 p…

> Ah, so you have a certain form of politics, and its beneficial.

Yes.. I believe a recent analysis shows that of all social media, Twitter's political composition now best matches America. If one's response to that is to run away, it's that person that is problematic, not the rest of society that is able to co-exist just fine.

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

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Post by anon291 »

eadler wrote: post #96
anon291 wrote: post #84

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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…

Community notes was designed, implemented and released before the acquisition. Only the name is new. Previously it was called birdwatch.

That's great. Unfortunately, Twitter still had a Kafka-esque moderation policy that is antithetical to the most basic understanding of free thought.

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Post by valval »

citizenkeen wrote: post #180
gwervc wrote: post #169

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I think your logic is a bit silly in the sense that bringing up dissatisfaction over any subject can be brushed off as “screaming that they’re being oppressed”.

Sometimes people are being oppressed. Sometimes it’s people you don’t like, and would like to see oppressed.

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

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Post by rightbyte »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #205
sockaddr wrote: post #116

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I’d bet Meta is counting all the random Instagram users that accidentally interact with the forced threads clickbait posts in their feed.

It's so transparent too, the way every single threads post shown in the Instagram widget ends halfway through with "..." I've managed to never go there because I'm only on Instagram for the pretty pictures

Aha I see clearly now. So that is my Reddit make you reload a comment thread when you click the 'expand thread' sometimes. To get more add views? I just thought it was inline with all their other crappy ux choises.

In this case they want to increase some KPI instead.

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Post by n1c »

paxys wrote: post #257
NoahKAndrews wrote: post #253

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You can use your domain as a handle, so apple.bsky.social is likely to be a fake, as the real Apple would have the account apple.com. Certainly you could fool some users, but it's not like Apple would want apple.bsky.social to use as their actual account.

Sure but if you are Jim you'd want to register jim.bsky.social, regardless of whether you intend to use the service or not.

There's an interesting dynamic because of the domains, I originally registered with `n1c.bsky.social` because like you say whether I intended to use the service or not it's nice to lock in the name. But then the next level is that it's actually more valuable or makes more sense for me to use it as `n1c.dev` as it's more closely tied to "me".

I am kinda sad that now someone else who isn't me is n1c.bsky but so be it.

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Post by arethuza »

mingus88 wrote: post #97
orbat wrote: post #49

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Usenet, BBSs, mailing lists etc. are social media

Not in the modern sense. Those mediums do not have algorithms, feeds, followers, profiles, influencers, likes, or any features that many people point to as the toxic aspects of pretty much every commercial social media site of the last decade. I’d say livejournal was the tipping point where the internet became very self-centered and your value in the platform was measured by how much engagement you were able to get.…

I wonder if Arthur T. Murray would count as an influencer?

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Post by raxxorraxor »

pythonguython wrote: post #11

Low quality article aside, Threads also had a major spike in usage that quickly dropped off. I could be wrong, but I’m going to guess Bluesky will be the same. They don’t seem to offer anything new/different other than moderation, which I’m not convinced is enough to shift momentum from x to bluesky

I think overzealous moderation was what drove some people off Twitter in the first place.

Another social media site asking for my phone number, no thank you.

I read the occasional Twitter/X and probably now Bluesky post, but this offers nothing that would attract me. Twitter/X/Bluesky/Insta/Threads is for people that like celebrities with some interesting stuff in between. But overall that isn't worth it.

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Post by potamic »

afavour wrote: post #264
potamic wrote: post #255

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How is a company that has received investments, a non-profit? Those investors will require returns, which means the primary objective must be profit. Otherwise they would have just asked for donations.

> Those investors will require returns, which means the primary objective must be profit It doesn’t mean that has to be the primary objective, just that at some point it should happen.

That's what OP was referring to, the same path of enshittification

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

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Post by result2vino »

dgeiser13 wrote: post #201
thekevan wrote: post #121

I still feel that an enormous amount of why threads shows up in data analytics is because Instagram just added it on and made an account for everyone. It wasn't adopted, it was falsely created. I'd go even further to say that it isn't a social network, it's an add-on to another social network.

For the most part the types of people who find Instagram interesting (and would have a Threads account created automatically) are simply not the audience for a tool like Bluesky (or Twitter).

This is dripping with personal bias. Bluesky gets the stamp of being a “tool”. It can be just as much of a mind-numbing fuckaround as Threads. Most replies in this thread are just starting from “Bluesky is where my people are” and trying to turn it into something self-righteous. Why are HN users so afraid of admitting that they’re dumb humans like everyone else? Christ.

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

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Post by lupusreal »

moomin wrote: post #65
lupusreal wrote: post #46

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Man, I wish I could be even a hundredth as effective at pissing people off online. I only piss off boring people I guess.

A lot of the hate you get depends not on what you say, but what you are.

On the internet, I'm a dog.
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