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Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by rsynnott »

andreygrehov wrote: post #45
minimaxir wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of that is remotely close to hate speech. President Trump is not a marginalized community.

Hate speech or not, there is nothing pleasant about it. The irony is that the 'holier-than-thou' crowd, who are against hate and for love all over the world, overwhelmingly post negative political comments and are rooting for X/Twitter to collapse. This ^ is a good problem to solve in social networks.

> This ^ is a good problem to solve in social networks.

What, that people are mean about a very special website sometimes? Seems a rather niche problem, tbh.

There is nothing inherently wrong with people being negative. If you had a social network where people could only be positive about things… now, that would be unhealthy.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by dylan604 »

degosuke wrote: post #46
tomrod wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've had enough of that, thank you. What I've found is you'll find open discussion and real free speech versus whatever Musk tried to implement at Twitter.

I'm not up to speed. Are there currently any instances where free speech was limited on x/twitter? Genuinely curious

Any of the people/journalists that were reporting on the inner workings of Twitter that Musk didn't like so he shut it down would be something that jumps to mind.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by meme3 »

threeseed wrote: post #26
cwal37 wrote: post #4

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…

For me, everything is settling. Threads is a half Twitter, half Instagram hybrid strong in creative, travel, social etc type content. Bluesky is original Twitter with strengths in news, politics, science etc. These days not sure it will ever be possible to have one app that does it all. Which leaves X as the new 4chan.

In terms of toxicity, X is way beyond 4chan at this point. But the style is very different. Algorithmic vs organic, retweets vs (You)s, anonymous vs semi-anonymous and much more. All the way to how replies are visually presented which is awful on Twitter and it's clones.

Honestly, I've had more positive interactions and learned more on 4chan than I ever have on Twitter. I wish the few tech people I care about who are still on there would just move (to clarify, move anywhere, not to 4chan obviously).

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by SubiculumCode »

unpopularopp wrote: post #12
cwal37 wrote: post #4

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…

I yet to find "utility" accounts on Bluesky. I use Twitter to follow news from games, game studios and publishers, news sites, bands, NASA etc. There is nothing like there yet and I don't care about random people (as I don't care about them on Twitter either) I check time to time but basically it's 0/50

Yeah. Twitter/X after the Russian invasion quickly let me connect to serious professionals in US-Russia relations, war, etc. e.g. War on the Rocks and Mike Kofman, the Truth of the Matter by CSIS, etc.

Are there easy tools that allow you to post on multiple platforms from the same content, that also supports replies?

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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SoftTalker wrote: post #47
cwal37 wrote: post #4

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…

The spammers and trolls will be there soon. Nothing popular is ignored for long.

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Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

cwal37 wrote: post #4

Bluesky has really exploded in certain niches over the past week, I think my followers have gone up 5-6x since Saturday. I'd been a somewhat active user over the past year as conversation on the field I work in (energy) become so degraded on Twitter as to make it kind of worthless (mean in multiple senses of the word as well as ludicrous levels of spam), but Bluesky was pretty relaxed without a lot of traction, now t…

My X never really degraded (I also spend a lot of time on Japanese-language X which is probably a different beast) but I have been spending time on Bluesky over the last year. For a while it was a fun network but fairly quiet. I could go an hour or so without any new posts. Over the last 3 weeks I've seen Bluesky become a lot more active and now it's feeling a lot like X where there's no way to stay on top of my feed. I'm really excited as I'm a firm believer that larger communities lead to more diverse views.

I also run my own Bluesky labeler and Firehose ingester so I've been following as event throughput has roughly doubled over the last 3-4 months.

Re: Visualizing 13M Bluesky users

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Post by alexriddle »

mrits wrote: post #50
threeseed wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The facts are that Threads has 275m MAU and has been #1 on the App Store almost continually since it launched. Bluesky is now #2 and rapidly growing. The momentum is real and significant. And the world is sick of Elon Musk and US politics.

The facts are that the world is addicted to Elon Musk and US politics.

I don't think that's particularly true but even if it was, the site is overrun with crypto spam and porn bots that will drive people away. I know 3 people who have deactivated their account and switched to bluesky in the past week - and anecdotal evidence for many people on bluesky seems to suggest engagement levels are significantly higher. The network effects are really gaining traction as well.

I gave up on Twitter when I opened the app in public to find a porn video playing in the main feed, despite not following or interacting with any accounts of that nature previously. That was ~6 months ago and I haven't looked back.

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