I joined shortly after it was apparent that Twitter was turning into 4chan. Bit of a ghost town at first, but in the last few months it turned into a perfectly suitable replacement for what Twitter used to be.
Then after the election I deleted all my social media accounts. I'm taking the next 2 years as a mental health break. I decided staying on top of which political out groups are being shat upon on a daily basis wasn't worth the the mental toll it was taking. I'll see you at the polls in 2 years.
Whilst it's still developing I think Bluesky is doing quite a lot of things right.
Specifically the starter packs and lists make it easy to find the kind of content you're interested in and the openness to third party integrations and API mean that people can easily build cool adjacent services.
One small example I liked of this is the list of Kubernetes org members https://bit.ly/k8s-bsky which is updated automatically based on Github profiles with Blue Sky links in them, who are in the org.
As much as I hoped Mastodon to win (even backed their Patreon for a year), they kept underestimating the onboarding friction and now that the general audience was ready to switch, of course they went for the twitter clone that is easy to join and looks familiar.
Bluesky aka "this time it's different". I found my home in the Fediverse.
Is there anyone here who uses Bluesky for its own sake rather than protesting against Twitter/Musk/etc.? Trying to understand if it have any inherent pros in terms of design or operation. IMO all these platforms thrive on network effects and their value grows exponentially as their size grows.
Why would this be any better or worse than Twitter?
Won’t it be the same with fewer but growing number of users?
I'm pretty nervous that neither Wayback Machine nor archive-dot-today appear to be able to snapshot Bluesky posts. Between this and paywalls, I'm not aware of an alternative user-accessible check against edited / deleted posts.
Might as well be a Telegram/Discord channel, or a Futaba Channel site. At least vBulletin could be archived.
Looks like there's a page on https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Bluesky for it though.
Maybe the world would be better if we just didn't have a service that allows everyone to shout whatever is on their mind in to the internet void?
I'm glad X is dying; is a replacement really needed?
Is this worth trying? I tried Threads when it came out and very quickly regretted it. Is this a legit replacement for X/Twitter?
I can't get behind a build platform that requires you to login to read
I don't really do any twitter style social media but just from checking the occasional post I can tell it's taking off because angry right wing trolls have started appearing in the replies.
I'm guessing the technical and social response to that (ignoring and blocking seems to be recommended, dunk-quoting their idiocy actively advised against) will determine the long term success as a useful site.
I get the sense that the sort of people who move to Bluesky are against the things such platforms need to do to make money.
And yet such platforms need money to run.
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The problem with X is, even if Elon is totally committed to free speech (I believe he really is) the perception is hard to shake as he is very active politically. Maybe this is why tradition media has usually had a political leaning.
When I joined it, just as when I joined Mastodon, most of what I saw was just anti-Twitter and anti-Musk content, which I didn't really care to read about, either for or against both of them. It might just be who I was following but the people I followed were similar in both Twitter and Bluesky / Mastodon, mostly indie hackers and other small time SaaS founders, and even these people started posting a lot of anti-Twitter stuff, more than even talking about their own products. On Twitter, the same types of people just...didn't give a shit about any of the drama and I actually learned a lot about product building from their threads.
It seems like if you start a platform mostly as a reaction to another platform, you're gonna get the same sort of social media bubble, only of the opposite variety. That's why I still use Twitter currently, I just don't see the same issue that other people seem to have, and that's likely because I don't engage in politics or respond to trolls on there.