Furniture
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This is the key for me.
“The problem is likely that billionaires Zuckerberg and Musk flounder in predicting what normal people want out of a social site”
It’s a real opening for the right approach.
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“The problem is likely that billionaires Zuckerberg and Musk flounder in predicting what normal people want out of a social site”
It’s a real opening for the right approach.
bundabergdevil
Member
According to this article it will.
The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions
For the last year and a half, us Bluesky users have frequently reminded one another that we are merely posters on a niche microblogging website. It's intended as a warning about hubris. A protective against the ever-present danger of poster's madness. A nerd-I'm a real wanker for saying this. I'm a real wanker for saying this. version of the Ancient Roman...little-flying-robots.ghost.io
Is Bluesky really less hostile and take-driven than Twitter, in such a way that it's making America's overpaid pundit jerks nervous?
I'd argue that it absolutely is. For now, and I think this will continue.
This is because Bluesky, unlike Twitter, is not designed around a central ethos of "putting spiders in a jar and shaking it up to make them eat other."
This is just one of the many ways that Bluesky is different from Twitter, but it's a really important difference.
Bluesky has been designed to give users a lot of granular control around what they see and who they interact with. When you block someone on Bluesky, unlike on Twitter, you can't easily choose to see what that person is up to. All connection between you and them is severed.
All interactions you've had with that person are made illegible in Bluesky (although if you unblock the person, they'll become visible again). While it's true that that person can use an alt account to view your posts anyway, or access Bluesky via other means - after all, Bluesky posts are public - the so-called Nuclear Block has proved to be a surprisingly effective tool for shutting down pile-ons, fights, and other conflict-driven social media behavior.
Disrupters can be disrupted.
Wheat/"/"/"
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X for me is not a social media site as much as it’s a news site.
If you are selective and follow people you’ve researched and who have proven reputation for accuracy, there is nowhere better to find news first.
And you avoid the trolling/ hateful stuff I hear about but hardly ever see myself.
Sure, there are lots of people who use the platform as a social media outlet, but there are many X accounts that rarely post, like mine, who just follow accounts that inform them of timely news in whatever field they are interested in.
CEO’s, political figures, analysts, and especially for on the ground reports from people at events around the world as they happen, there’s no better place to get accurate news first.
jipops
Member
China state media is not happy about losing the propaganda distribution it has enjoyed on X.
www.semafor.com
Bluesky boom worries Chinese media | Semafor
State outlets, which put considerable resources into amassing millions of followers on Elon Musk’s social media platform, have recently seen their growth plateau.
www.semafor.com
CrazyNotCrazie
Member
I disagree! And I'm trying to get a rise out of you!
acdevil
Member
The only quibble I have with this statement is it is only true if you stay on your Following feed. If you go to the For You feed, buyer beware.
Furniture
Member
Bluesky doesn’t have all the ads or the bots wanting to follow you which drove me crazy at Ex.
Wheat/"/"/"
Well-known member
That’s correct, and exactly what I do the majority of the time.
Furniture
Member
Seeing more and more articles like this. Meanwhile Bluesky is almost at 24 million users.
www.nbcnews.com
Journalists flock to Bluesky
“We have posts that are exactly the same on Twitter and on Bluesky, and with those identical posts, Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said.
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
Wow. 12 to 24 mil in what, 2 weeks? Sounds like they are about to the hit the critical takeoff point where it becomes the “it” thing and rapidly jumps to 100 mil +. God I hope so. Let X become a sad Truth Social 2.0 and hopefully those guys that like that will stay there.Seeing more and more articles like this. Meanwhile Bluesky is almost at 24 million users.
Journalists flock to Bluesky
“We have posts that are exactly the same on Twitter and on Bluesky, and with those identical posts, Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter,” Pittman said.
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
nmduke2001
Member
I joined Bluesky this weekend. So far, I like it. I'm curious how they are going to keep it from becoming just like twitter? Seems to me that it's functionality is pretty similar, so what is keeping the trolls and misinformation from heading over if it grows large enough?
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Two reasons it will be different: a) the main reason Twitter is a cesspool is bc of their algorithm for promoting tweets. They use an engagement measure that rewards twets that stir up (usually angry) responses, and b) they plan to take moderation seriously, the way Twitter did before Elon took over.
acdevil
Member
The block lists help as well.
Furniture
Member
AOC is the first person to hit one million followers on Bluesky.
www.yahoo.com
Ocasio-Cortez first person to hit a million followers on Bluesky
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is the first person to hit a million followers on the social platform Bluesky, according to the platform. Other than Bluesky’s own account, Ocasio-Cortez’s follower landmark is a first for a user, the platform told The Hill on Monday. Democrats and those on...
nmduke2001
Member
I was reading an article yesterday (don't remember which site) and they had a quote with a link to a Bluesky post in the article. I think we're all used to seeing articles with links to X posts but this is the first that I had seen for Bluesky.
Phredd3
Member
That's what is going to determine whether or not the adoption really takes hold. If that becomes normal, Bluesky will be as permanent as any social media site can be.
Matches
Member
Both the attempted coup yesterday in South Korea and the assassination of the United Healthcare CEO this morning have been very easy to follow on Bluesky. It’s becoming informative in the way Twitter used to be - I can’t speak to present-day Twitter but in the past it was the very best place to follow events as they happen. Bluesky hasn’t had the user base to replicate that until recently but it’s reaching the tipping point.
Furniture
Member
Well. This is not going to help the Xodus. I guess it doesn’t mean they will be posting on Bluesky though.
‘The European Federation of Journalists (which claims to represent over 320,000 members) has followed The Guardian and the German Journalists Association in an announcement that they will stop publishing on X social media platform staring on January 20, 2025
The European Federation of Journalists suspends Musk's X platform account
The European Federation of Journalists (which claims to represent over 320,000 members) has followed The Guardian and the German Journalists Association in an a
ground.news
MChambers
Member
So far, so good. But Bluesky isn’t making money and it’s not clear what plan for making money is. Bluesky is a public benefit corporation, so it’s not clear to me how much pressure there is to make money. I know Bluesky raised funds from some VC folks, who are not usually known for investing in charitable enterprises.
Also, Bluesky isn’t really decentralized, at least in many ways. So I worry about Bluesky in the long term.
Native
Member
For now. Once the number of users is sufficient to justify an ad-driven model, on the other hand...
I think this is just the nature of social communities. At a certain scale it just isn't tenable to be "the everything platform" and you're forced to make a choice between revenue and growth or network quality.
When we talk about decentralization, a protocol is a good start, but it's actually the community itself that needs to stay within a certain size for long-term success. DBR has survived for far, far longer than any of the social media platforms because there's a natural cap on the number of Duke fans, which limits it from becoming a general-purpose sports talk website—even after an acquisition by SBNation, which is itself a general-purpose sports talk website!