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

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Post by virgildotcodes »

ipaddr wrote: post #323
virgildotcodes wrote: post #322

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This seems like word salad, are you sure you’re continuing to argue all this in good faith? You’re now saying that medical procedures can change your skin pigmentation, so race is no longer immutable? You genuinely hold this position? Is everything mutable then? Since with the right surgical and drug interventions you can theoretically change anything about a person’s mind or body, which trivially includes their heig…

Everything is mutable.

It’s okay to just accept that your position was indefensible, you don’t have to pretend to believe in utterly asinine positions just to attempt to save face.

“I would totally be correct if we redefined what it means to be correct.” <- This is the honest end state of this type of behavior.

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

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virgildotcodes wrote: post #351
ipaddr wrote: post #323

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything is mutable.

It’s okay to just accept that your position was indefensible, you don’t have to pretend to believe in utterly asinine positions just to attempt to save face. “I would totally be correct if we redefined what it means to be correct.” <- This is the honest end state of this type of behavior.

Glad to see you were thinking about this comment all day. It's okay to accept you were wrong and need to back out with a win.

Your example like sexual preference being unchangeable were very outdated for 2024. Gender is fluid.

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Post by starkparker »

citizenkeen wrote: post #176
hughesjj wrote: post #143

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It reminds me of google plus. Technically better than the existing top dog, but the forced migration and trying to bootstrap with a huge but only semi involved userbase let it fizzle soon after the start. Has there ever been a successful case of bootstrapping a new social media product with an existing userbase? Like not just added features or merging two together.

Google+ was wildly successful in certain circles. Tabletop RPG design still hasn’t entirely recovered from its loss. Google+ was successful from any real metric but it didn’t replace Facebook so it was axed.

The TTRPG community demonstrated how G+ circles solved how people segment different parts of their social lives by limiting the scope to a specific community and cause. Most people in that space were heavily invested in that community but also didn't want it being their primary public identity.

But the community is so minuscule that I'm not sure Google even knew it existed. If it had taken off to the same degree among something closer to critical mass, like today's parasocial celebrity communities or mainstream sports, it might've survived.

IMO most of that TTRPG community migrated to Discord, but the invite requirements make discovery horrible, search is terrible, real-time chat is miserable for discussion, and its "forum" features are just threaded chats. The vibe is way worse, it breeds and feeds drama, and the audience that survives it can correspondingly be either less appealing or require more moderation.

Bluesky doesn't solve the same problems as G+ circles, but between feeds and follow/moderation lists, it has a similar vibe of being able to focus the lens on a topic better than Twitter or Threads, and without the overhead and UX gaps of Fediverse.

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Post by vitorgrs »

kivle wrote: post #129

For me it's a very easy choice to go with Bluesky over Threads. With Threads you can already see that Facebook/Instagram is in it's DNA. There's no pure "following" feed. It's instead an algorithmic feed that mixes people you follow with people Threads decides to push. So it's going down the enshittification path from day one. With Bluesky there's at least some hope that it will not end up as the algorithmic time sin…

Huh, there is a following feed...

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Post by staplers »

lolinder wrote: post #111
staplers wrote: post #102

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People keep calling the right stupid, but at least everybody can understand what they're talking about. This isn't the enlightened take you think it is. Lack of education led us here. Fuming at intellectuals when they attempt to address complex issues reminds me of our evolutionary ancestors fuming at the creation of civilization.

> Lack of education led us here. No. Belittling people for their lack of education led us here. People don't follow those who consistently treat them as barely-human tally marks that we (their betters) tolerate as long as they vote the right way. Eventually they get sick of being treated as less-than, and eventually someone comes along that makes those people feel important. There are only really two reasonable ways…

  People don't follow those who consistently treat them as barely-human tally marks
Oh really? Haha. Famously empathetic and down to earth trump. That's a new one.
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