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

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Post by duxup »

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 different style or flavor. However, the content patterns that get engagement and etc seem ingrained in the participants no matter where you go.

Personally I can't help but feel both left out, and not wanting to be a part of whatever these style of social media apps are.

Having said that there's a lot of talk about twitter clones missing features, but for me I wonder if the content is the same, why would a significant number of people move anyway?

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#92

Post by fullshark »

hobo_mark wrote: post #74

BlueSky is the only place where I have ever received death threats, the only place where I ended in multiple blocklists for upsetting god knows whom, and the only place where I had to block hundreds of accounts to avoid getting porn and questionable furry stuff in the main timeline, even with moderation on. But it seems to work fine for a particular brand of extremely online people.

No one wants to talk to everyone on the planet at once except extremely online people anymore, that initial burst of enthusiasm from normies 10-15 years ago was borne from naivety and will never happen again.

Also every platform will get a burst of extremely online people trying to build an audience at the initial stages of its lifecycle. Discord seems to be the only place that doesn't fall into this trap because it's basically private clubs, and not about seeking attention at all times.

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Post by haunter »

andygeorge wrote: post #46
mattl wrote: post #5

If anyone from Twitter I know is reading this and wants an invite code ask me via Mastodon DM or email.

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#95

Post by goles »

vitorgrs wrote: post #85
goles wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is threads less... political now? Without saying if something political is even good or bad, I just don't want to see it. I blocked close to 500 people & `not interested` their posts until I just gave up and stopped using the app.

I think depends on the algorithm, but the algo is fairly broken. I know some people are complaining about "For You" full of "almost naked" persons there... Mine is mostly about tech, I believe. Which is a problem for me because I like political things, so I still use X, don't judge me. But there's a chronological-following timeline on Threads anyway. The problem is that there's no way to really control the algo timel…

Maybe my approach was wrong. I should have liked more than I disliked as feedback into the algorithm.

It's just odd to me because my Instagram feed is great.

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#96

Post by miohtama »

adastra22 wrote: post #28
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…

> it's just twitter but you can write and use custom clients and feed algorithms Compelling for whom? For developers? I’m not sure anyone else will care.

For content creators

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#97

Post by matsemann »

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…

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.

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#98

Post by mullingitover »

Bluesky's big selling point is that it's an open protocol, but it's their own homegrown protocol that nobody else is using. Meanwhile Threads has working ActivityPub[1]. You can see threads posts on Mastodon.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/24000120/threads-meta-ac...

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Post by nodja »

pierat wrote: post #42
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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https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto

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#100

Post by CharlesW »

worsethndetroit wrote: post #79
Levitz wrote: post #68

If nothing else, there is one good thing of Elon's acquisition of Twitter, and it's that it has made the case for making social media outlets responsible for their content evidently clear. For better or worse, when management changed, the narratives and atmosphere in Twitter changed. Its content changed. This would be absurd if social media communities were organic or independent in how they spread ideas, but they ar…

> If nothing else, there is one good thing of Elon's acquisition of Twitter, and it's that it has made the case for making social media outlets responsible for their content evidently clear. Agreed. He showed that they were engaging in widespread editorializing of conservative content while lying about being neutral. They should never have been allowed to do that, even under the existing laws at the time. Reddit is e…

> He showed that they were engaging in widespread editorializing of conservative content while lying about being neutral.

A 2021 study¹ found the opposite, which is that Twitter algorithms amplified right-wing posts more than left-wing posts. You're parroting Musk's claims, which are feelings-based. Now, of course, X is basically Parler.

¹ https://cdn.cms-twdigitalassets.com/content/dam/blog-twitter...

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