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

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

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 eliminates the network, and so people lose interest fast.

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

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Post by pierat »

brundolf wrote: post #20

It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…

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

#43

Post by passwordoops »

solardev wrote: post #18

What's Bluesky? This just looks like a Twitter clone?

"Bluesky is a decentralized social app conceptualized by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and developed in parallel with Twitter. The social network has a Twitter-like user interface with algorithmic choice, a federated design and community-specific moderation."

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/17/what-is-bluesky-everything...

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

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Post by kzrdude »

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.

I think bluesky has mindshare and is still ready to be the eventual twitter heir

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

#45

Post by brundolf »

jeffbee wrote: post #27
brundolf wrote: post #20

It's lost the initial momentum but it's not dead yet. I'm still holding my breath that the critical mass makes the leap eventually; "it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms" is a compelling proposition For me and a lot of others, it's the only twitter alternative we ever signed up for. A few never came back to twitter, but most did mostly for social reasons. But twitter as a pla…

Most of my people seemed to have landed on bsky. Discussions there get shares and likes, unlike mastodon where for me it's just a few void-shouts per day. Threads appears to be 100% mid celebrities who I am sure Facebook is paying to hang around.

Yeah, I haven't even bothered trying Threads (and don't plan to)

Mastodon puts too much onus on the user to pick a home server

Bluesky got it right by saying "we're going to be exactly familiar to people who like twitter, just open and better". The concepts are an almost exact drop-in replacement, for practical purposes, other than which one your friends are active on

I don't use it much right now because most of my people did switch back for now. But I check in periodically, and I'm rooting for it to succeed

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

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Post by 01100011 »

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...

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

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Post by mminer237 »

It still doesn't seem to have a public feed though, so you can only view individual posts.

I will say as someone has an invite: you're not missing out on anything. It definitely has far less activity than either Twitter or Threads, but somehow it also just has worse content. You would think they were invite-only to keep the quality high, but everything is either furry porn or hate-filled rage bait, neither of which I am personally a fan of at all. I keep telling trying to tell it as much, but I honestly don't think I've seen one post I truly wanted to see. I tried to do it for like a week hoping it would get better, but honestly it seems like there's just nothing worthwhile on the whole site. Personally, the only way I can see me ever using Bluesky is if they manage to totally invert their userbase. You need to just start over when you somehow get a crowd worse than either version of Twitter, in my opinion.

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

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Post by bordercases »

brundolf wrote: post #45
jeffbee wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of my people seemed to have landed on bsky. Discussions there get shares and likes, unlike mastodon where for me it's just a few void-shouts per day. Threads appears to be 100% mid celebrities who I am sure Facebook is paying to hang around.

Yeah, I haven't even bothered trying Threads (and don't plan to) Mastodon puts too much onus on the user to pick a home server Bluesky got it right by saying "we're going to be exactly familiar to people who like twitter, just open and better". The concepts are an almost exact drop-in replacement, for practical purposes, other than which one your friends are active on I don't use it much right now because most of my…

A nice migration story would probably help for Mastodon no? Sign-up on an "index" server, then one button to end up somewhere else?

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

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Post by tatrajim »

Personally I have been pleasantly surprised by how useful Grok is for getting a quick read on events around the world captured in tweets, e.g. protests in Argentina or the shooting in Prague. The spotty coverage of global news by US media leaves a huge opportunity for X to exploit.
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