Bluesky

Followed back. Don’t expect much from me 🤣

It’s obviously invite day if anyone wants one.

And again.

And more

Bump – now open to all https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kkqwku6ia32i

Can you search all of Bluesky yet ?

Anyway, look forward Single Track World account showing up soon 🙂

Just had an update which brings in a load of Twitteresque features including hashtag support and keyword blocking.

Well aware than possibly no-one cares but they’ve turned on DMs on Bluesky. Which is nice.

Bump. Bit of an influx with recent Twitter issues…

Is it still a thing ?

Yes. Much busier the last couple of days.

anyone else on there?

@chriskimberley.bsky.social

musk can kiss my arse

https://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3latmx7nfyn2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3latmx7nfyn2a

Yup. I’m on there.

https://bsky.app/profile/fattyresurfer.bsky.social

@kimbers Followed you.

BS has gone mental this week…

https://bsky.app/profile/llama-llama.bsky.social

I’m there. Just followed a couple of you.

I’m @mrstevious.bsky.social

Joined up…. ourmaninthenorth

just having a nosey.  never really got on with twitter/X, hashtags, tweets, retweets and all that palarver.  if i didnt get on with that, should i stay away from this?  same sort of thing?

I’ve just joined – it seems quite quiet so far but my faves from X (FessHole and AnonOpin) are there, along with an official Leeds United channel so it’s good. Unfortunately, my kids’ school isn’t on there yet but I am sure it will happen. @harrogatemike

ColourNoise – your Bluesky name is one of those that one has to reread a couple of times. Thought you were a svelte wave rider 😉

I’m there as @sussexepic.bsky.social – not that I’m posting anything [useful]

Copied from Dave Troy on Twitter (so you don’t have to click a Twitter link)

/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky, for those fleeing there. Folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).

2/The people who aided Dorsey in pursuing this vision were other libertarian/post-rationalists connected with effective altruism and other online anarchist movements. One network called TPOT (‘that part of Twitter’) was instrumental. It carried over into Bluesky’s founding DNA.

3/Someone made the visualization above in 2023, showing the TPOT/EA network quite clearly. EA as you know is part of TESCREAL and the belief systems that have driven Sam Bankman Fried and Elon Musk. SBF also put money into Musk’s Twitter buy.

4/Now that Dorsey has bailed, Bluesky’s DNA is basically TPOT people but without a funding source. Who is going to win in that scenario? I don’t know, but I’m not putting money on the users.

5/Bluesky’s most recent funding round was provided by Blockchain Capital LLC. What do those folks want from their investment? I don’t know. But that’s the question to be asking. Crypto money outspent Big Oil in this cycle … to the tune of $200mm.

So anyway it’s fun to call it “the good place” but the fact is users will likely once again get a rude awakening when it either collapses or is captured by Musk, or worse. You’re using a free service on someone else’s dime; you should ask what they want from you.

7/More on that Blockchain Capital LLC funding round here.

10/?It get’s worse. Blockchain Capital LLC was co-founded by Steve Bannon pal Brock Pierce, a major crypto advocate, perennial presidential candidate, and close friend of Eric Adams. Pierce has dozens of other shady MAGA/Russia ties as well.

https://x.com/davetroy/status/1856453144948961771?s=61&t=27Xz8oI3pGlaNEQvowJBcg

So Bluesky is dodgy too – and I’ve just made an account…

…time to move to Truth Social! 🙂

You’re using a free service on someone else’s dime; you should ask what they want from you.

Which is true, ultimately I think Bluesky will end up being funded by some sort of advertising but it’s structured in such a way as to make an ElMo style takeover much harder.

…time to move to Truth Social!

Rumour (which may have been someone having a laugh) that X and TS are going to merge. I think that’s doubtful as the banks who lent ElMo the money for X might have something to say about it.

Any service that you don’t pay for (and some that you do) will be subject to enshittification. It’s inevitable. In the mean time, Bluesky is a far better place than Xitter, and probably Threads too.

Has something just changed? I have like three followers on bsky, I’ve just had like 100+ new ones in the last 24 hours.

@ukcougar.bsky.social

Is Bluesky moderated – do they have the processes and resources setup to remove offensive material and bots?

Is Bluesky moderated – do they have the processes and resources setup to remove offensive material and bots?

I’ve just read the long post above so possibly not.  I left twitter a few months before the current grand exodus because of all the rightwing bullshit and disinformation. But I do miss the breaking news side of it.

I’ll see how it develops – if Bluesky works out and has a strong current affairs/politics game than I may join later

Well I’ve just found fesshole on there so I’m pretty  pleased

@olddog Yes, it all seems to happen pretty efficiently. How is a different question I don’t know the answer to.

Cougar, you may have been put on a “starter list” of people to follow for some particular topic.

but whatever, pretty much everyone I followed on Twitter is now on bsky so that’s that.

The only problem is it’s still the plaything of a bunch of tech bros liable to enshittify the minute it starts to be significant. Ho hum.

Edit: sorry I do usually read threads before posting!

Im on Bluesky, essentially just to read a few journos etc after binning twitter in the summer.

i seem to pick up followers quite regularly, almost exclusively on the back of liking a post – the poster often follows me. I have no idea why, I am not saying or posting anything on my own account other than a picture of a dog etc, and they don’t comment or like my dog so I am assuming it’s a another reason. Or they are just weird.

I’ve signed up and spent the last few hours searching for my Twitter follows and I’ve found 50 out of 106, out of those 50 only 6 have any posts.

So back to Twitter  it is.

Has something just changed? I have like three followers on bsky, I’ve just had like 100+ new ones in the last 24 hours.

Have they got their tits out? Most of my followers on “a social media site previously known as Twitter” have since Elon took over.

I’ve signed up and spent the last few hours searching for my Twitter follows

There’s a chrome plug in that will do that for you, blue sky bridge or something.

not on chrome, bog standard safari does me fine

not on chrome, bog standard safari does me fine

I use Safari as my default too, but not installing an alternative browser for a one off task to save you hours of work seems a bit counter productive!

^ what can I say in my defence?…………….I’m just weird

Twitter users *rolls eyes and sighs* 🙂

Having had a go with Threads I’ve joined Bluesky now. Seems more like Twitter before it went bab.

Followed some of you, @brocklanders.

I might have to sign up to this Bluesky malarkey.

I’ve just seen Twitter/X described as an ‘online Nazi bot sewer’.

That couldn’t be more accurate IMO.