Bluesky

I saw an interesting statistic on CNN demonstrating the pronounced shift (exodus?) in political affiliation (I.D.) on X/Twitter.

In 2022 it was 65% Democrat and 31% Republican. Now it is 48% Democrat and 47% Republican. It will be interesting to see how things look a year from now.
 
Finally made the switch to Bluesky a few days ago. I'd been meaning to do it for a while now, but when my For You section started with another dumb post from a dumb account I have no interest in (or political affiliation with), I finally shut her down for good and set up on BS.

Here's hoping the world of sports fully migrates (or at least doubles up with posts) to BS now too.
 
BrummieDevil said:
Finally made the switch to Bluesky a few days ago. I'd been meaning to do it for a while now, but when my For You section started with another dumb post from a dumb account I have no interest in (or political affiliation with), I finally shut her down for good and set up on BS.

Here's hoping the world of sports fully migrates (or at least doubles up with posts) to BS now too.
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I’m not sure “BS” is the acronym Bluesky is hoping becomes standard…
 
If there's one thing these supposedly brilliant tech billionaires are actually brilliant at it's reminding people that they are more lucky than brilliant.

Cramming those two words together without a space or hyphen was never going to stop the BS abbreviation. You can't stop it, you can only hope to contain it.
 
PTPer said:
I saw an interesting statistic on CNN demonstrating the pronounced shift (exodus?) in political affiliation (I.D.) on X/Twitter.

In 2022 it was 65% Democrat and 31% Republican. Now it is 48% Democrat and 47% Republican. It will be interesting to see how things look a year from now.
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Do you know the numbers for Bluesky? I'm guessing it's very highly skewed Democrat.
 
The way things are going we will someday have separate Democrat and GOP grocery stores, shoe stores, car washes, ...
 

Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky​



X-formerly-Twitter, the giant in the space, has something like 300 million active monthly users — a number that's been plummeting ever since Elon Musk acquired the site in 2022, opening up room for a proliferation of new challengers.

Currently, Bluesky has over 22 million users, up from 13 million in October. Threads, in comparison, has around 275 monthly users — but it's hard to shake the sense that Bluesky's smaller user base is using the service far more obsessively than those at Threads, many of whom are likely signing up because of nagging reminders in Instagram.

The problem is likely that billionaires Zuckerberg and Musk flounder in predicting what normal people want out of a social site — the former drags net-negative AI into everything, and the latter makes idiotic decisions like removing the block button. Bluesky, as little as it may be, at least promises to not exploit user content for generative AI training, and it comes with a pretty powerful block hammer.
 
Furniture said:

Zuckerberg Seems Genuinely Alarmed by the Explosive Growth of Bluesky​



X-formerly-Twitter, the giant in the space, has something like 300 million active monthly users — a number that's been plummeting ever since Elon Musk acquired the site in 2022, opening up room for a proliferation of new challengers.

Currently, Bluesky has over 22 million users, up from 13 million in October. Threads, in comparison, has around 275 monthly users — but it's hard to shake the sense that Bluesky's smaller user base is using the service far more obsessively than those at Threads, many of whom are likely signing up because of nagging reminders in Instagram.

The problem is likely that billionaires Zuckerberg and Musk flounder in predicting what normal people want out of a social site — the former drags net-negative AI into everything, and the latter makes idiotic decisions like removing the block button. Bluesky, as little as it may be, at least promises to not exploit user content for generative AI training, and it comes with a pretty powerful block hammer.
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It's almost like people want to socialize on social media instead of arguing all the time with people looking to get a rise out of them. Shocking!
 
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