Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

Post by izzydata » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:24 PM UTC

djtango wrote: post #38

izzydata wrote: post #14

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I don't agree. There are still serious organizations and people using Twitter. I believe that to be true. I'm just surprised they haven't moved. For example there are emergency systems or local governments that announce information on Twitter. These feel like serious organizations to me. At minimum I feel like they should be in multiple places and not just Twitter.

Ultimately Twitter is timely and has almost universal mindshare. A few weeks ago when there was the pacific earthquake, I had family who were very close to a danger zone vacationing. Google was not sufficient for finding good local timely info as an outsider but twitter was. I would never even think to check BlueSky or Mastodon, and my family will never have heard of them.

Post by pfraze » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:28 PM UTC

andunie wrote: post #37

8cvor6j844qw_d6 wrote: post #8

FWIW, Bluesky still seems unfriendly to email alias providers. I never managed to create an account on Bluesky as one of their support email blocks certain email domains. They still have a long way to go.

It's so odd that they still get to enjoy their status as a "decentralized" "open" social network when it's really just a centralized platform by definition (and it's not even their fault, there is simply no way to do what they want to do without centralization). Sure, someone may say "the AT Protocol is open", but that means nothing because the AT Protocol is not Bluesky, Bluesky is one centralized platform that happ…

Post by anonzzzies » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:37 PM UTC

noirscape wrote: post #36

izzydata wrote: post #4

It's surprising that any serious organization or person would still use Twitter in its current state.

There's exactly three reasons for people to stick to Twitter: * They don't care/agree with the policies of the guy running it. * Legacy reasons; either they have no reason to leave (automated org accounts keep running until something in the workflow breaks) or they have an existing community that doesn't want to move. This group will eventually leave but is currently stuck with inertia. Most "public service" accounts…

Post by gyanchawdhary » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:45 PM UTC

svantana wrote: post #30

gyanchawdhary wrote: post #22

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No true scotsman fallacy - only lefties downvote this comment, and if you downvote the comment you must be a leftie.

Post by epistasis » Wed, Aug 27, 2025, 2:50 PM UTC

cosmic_cheese wrote: post #45

mountainriver wrote: post #26

I found Bluesky to be extremely hostile to AI and mostly far leftists canabalizing each other. I don’t see it as sustainable and fewer people are using it. X is undoubtedly worse but Bluesky doesn’t appear to be the answer.

I don’t know that “AI hostile” is quite accurate. It’s more like it’s not blindly accepted and praised, which is different. Generally any hostility comes down to cases where it’s replacing or could replace people instead of bringing a new capabilities to the table — AI helping detect cancer or discover new treatments for example is a lot more accepted than AI taking the jobs of book cover illustrators, for example. T…