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Post by Exoristos »

blurrybird wrote: post #140
rconti wrote: post #121

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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…

So, a poor-man's LinkedIn.

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Post by TheLegace »

npunt wrote: post #279
rglullis wrote: post #161

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> designing new feature ideas for twitter and twitter-like products Which is not the same as "innovating with UX" in any way that is incompatible with the status quo. Going by your blog post, do you agree that it is not something that (by itself) a feature so innovative that would make people drop twitter to favor a new social network that implemented it?

No this feature by itself isn't something to attract people to a brand new social network, I hope I didn't represent it that way. My perspective on the problem is that the way twitter's medium is designed doesn't produce a wonderful signal:noise ratio. Some people might revel in the noise, and some amount of noise certainly generates MAUs and ad dollars, but ultimately it's not living up to its potential as a medium…

I very much agree with your sentiment. Glad to see someone else recognize the problem with trying to find interesting content nowadays. I have noticed a negative relationship between sizes(after a certain threshold) of communities/platforms and the ability to find interesting content that is also suited to my preferences.

It seems like a ranking problem, you would think having upvotes/likes/points/etc. would be a good metric. But you just get an outsized influence of posts that have huge critical mass, and the content just becomes generic and clickbaity(i.e. Mr. Beast).

I think it is an optimization problem that has to balance competing needs and bring the best solutions under a wide set of criteria. This has been my experience trying to solve this problem, I already have a system that ingests huge amount of reddit posts from preferred and top subreddits. What I want to do is filter out the best content, then apply that generally to all content sources(YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, etc). Moving away from content that gives a short term dopamine hit to content that is an experience that changes structures in your brain. Ideally sustaining pleasure, intrigue, curiosity for longer periods of time.

There are sites with great UX like Scrolller[1] trying to solve the issue, but its only images/gifs.

[1] https://scrolller.com/

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Post by Exoristos »

orenlindsey wrote: post #211
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…

The only way to truly have a "good" social media experience is to have a small site (a few hundred active people, maybe less who join slowly over a somewhat long period of time) where everyone has at least slightly overlapping interests. I'm lucky enough to have found a site like this and it's epic. Better than any social media I've ever experienced. People actually care about each other. We have a community.

Welcome to twenty years ago, when we could still hope the internet would actually enrich our social lives.

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Post by caskstrength »

echelon wrote: post #160
cubefox wrote: post #136

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Do you know how censorship and Balkanization work on Bluesky? On Mastodon this was quite extreme, as entire servers can block each other, without any involvement from the individual user.

This is why p2p will always be superior to federation. I don't want others making decisions for me. I'm okay with consuming an upstream block/filter list, but I ultimately want executive control over it.

People who want such experience just run their own instance.

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Post by matsemann »

skybrian wrote: post #154
matsemann wrote: post #97

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My whole community has moved from twitter to bsky. The first push was for mastodon, but that died out after a few weeks. But all action is on bsky now, not twitter, so I feel most have migrated fully, not just double posting.

What sort of community?

Cycling / urban planning / environmental in my country. So it's quite niche. A couple of hundreds.

But that's also how I used Twitter. An account specifically for this. Only ever followed or interacted with content related to this. So not using it to consume other content, write about anything that comes to mind etc.

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Post by matsemann »

chatmasta wrote: post #225
matsemann wrote: post #97

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My whole community has moved from twitter to bsky. The first push was for mastodon, but that died out after a few weeks. But all action is on bsky now, not twitter, so I feel most have migrated fully, not just double posting.

The fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is that sustainable? We'll see. I do like the technical vision, a lot. But I haven't been able to try it out because any time I felt the desire to look, nobody could actually link me to a post or a feed. So I never achieved the required activation energy to even l…

As I wrote in another comment, it's a clique that I moved with, yes. Related to urban planning, cycling infrastructure etc in my country. If anything, the move has been nice. No longer daily death threats from car drivers thinking that's a proportionate response for us advocating for a new bicycle lane..

Being a small group of course made the transition easier. Most of us didn't use Twitter to follow all kinds of stuff, just mostly these things.

And while being a clique, with no outside influences, can be bad, the "influences" you now get from blue checks on X isn't anything worth having. Just abuse.

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Post by solatic »

pierrelf wrote: post #294
lxgr wrote: post #278

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Only got one: bsky-social-5xbvh-kgbua

Interest has been low among my friends as most seem happy with Mastodon, so here are some codes! bsky-social-jaixd-xof3h bsky-social-fzzhr-3ow5j bsky-social-sns4s-wnuwh bsky-social-pmqcb-izd6n bsky-social-bmgi4-bhg5p

all used :(

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Post by numpad0 »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #41
afavour wrote: post #4

Too late, IMO. The invite-only system meant that the "leave Twitter" crowd split between Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon. IMO none of them have ended up being great replacements.

It's so dumb. Someone please explain how a social network is supposed to succeed when it's invite-only? Hype alone won't carry it. IMO, being invite-only is THE reason Google+ failed. There were so many memes about people getting excited for an invite, getting on, and then finding only a couple people they knew were on it, if any at all. For a social network to work, it needs to be a network . Limiting on-boarding el…

I don't know, Google+ seemed fine. It wasn't eating the world, and wasn't clear how it was positioned in their branding, but fine.

Bsky is the same; there's unexplainable pressure I feel in there to keep it to an in-group of nicest of people, but fine. It's not derailing into a Mastodon.

Re: Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login

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Post by numpad0 »

01100011 wrote: post #47
vitorgrs wrote: post #38

Since the Threads launch, I barely used BlueSky anymore. Now with the new logo, I opened again for the first time in 4 months or so, thinking that well, there was improvements? No. You still can't send videos and gifs. That's just, so basic for a social network. Let alone all the other missing things, and how awful the apps are. They are basically the worst example to show React Native. The app here on Android takes…

I can understand not supporting video yet.. that's a huge amount of data. But GIFS ? Wow...

Maybe they don't see reaction gifs a useful feature of a social media?
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