Oh my god, another fsilrd Facebook product? Who could have possibly predicted that?
Been dabbling in both Threads & Bluesky to eventually ween myself away from Twitter, and so far, have found Threads to be far more useable in terms of feed content.
My favorite thing bluesky is doing is you can host your very own mirrored version of bluesky if you want which I am excited to play with and see how it all works. I like the architectural decisions a lot. Like if I want to host my own version of bluesky and add filters to get rid of obnoxious crap, I think you can do that.
not that iād ever be able to figure out how to do that, but that sounds amazing. like people modding video games.
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I have yet to join but my wife who knows and cares very little about Elon told me today she had to open a BlueSky account as her entire scientific community moved there.
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Thatās some good news.
It seems likely bluesky will get most of the science people and other academics and that will continue to bring many others to the site. I suspect that it has reached escape velocity with its current user base and will continue to grow.
BS and Twitter/X are highly similar sites, offering a pretty similar user experience (at least technologically). Given the natural monopoly of social networks, it seems unlikely they could both flourish. Thus, if I had to bet Iād guess that Twitter will be gasping for air in two-three years.
Mina Kimes is spearheading the charge to move all the sports people to Bluesky. Still more chatter on twitter on my sports list during an NFL game. But Iām hoping to see that get closer to parity, then tip over to Bluesky.
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Guess it was inevitable there was going to be a right wing twitter and a left wing twitter in the end.
I spent a little too long trying to figure out how much venture capital owns bluesky and canāt, they do have some piece of it but I donāt know maybe someone does.
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Yeah Facebook has already largely self-segregated, which was not the case before 2016. Iāve long thought the amount of direct contact each side came into with each other on twitter was unsustainable. We are two entirely divided nations inhabiting the same land.
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Getting sports bros to Bluesky seems huge but impossible unless major outlets like ESPN push for it. Which, who knows, maybe they will if Twitter gets unusable enough.
Almost everyone I follow is already there, but some of them donāt post as much as they do on twitter.
I just like to follow along during games to feel like Iām watching with friends and not sitting alone in my 1-bedroom condo living my glamorous life. I donāt need the full pantheon for that. Just enough that thereās fun chatter.
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Iād be shocked if ESPN makes some big move away from Twitter, especially at the corporate level. The past few years seen a big shift away from āwokeā people like Jamele Hill and Pablo Torre towards much ānormierā and broier folks like the Mannings and McAfee. They have a good relationship with the UFC and the NFL now has players doing the Trump shimmy as a celebration dance. That demo is totally cool with modern day twitter. And even if it gets worse, big corporate interests are going to be reluctant to publicly criticize Elon while he appears to have the ear of the President and a bunch of other powerful people in DC.
I never did much sports Twitter but follow awful announcing on BS and itās pretty active. I think sports will be a lagging indicator but expect to see it happen because sports comments from blue checks have to be below average, making Twitter frustrating to use.
Thatās what I like about rail threads here. And may be why I donāt really invest in any other social media. All of my buddies are already posting in the movie thread.
well, 2019-2020 was the last time anyone thought he was good at election predicting stuff so checks out
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I donāt even twitter/X, so I doubt Iāll even bluesky, but can someone give me a sense of scale?
Is Bluesky even 1% as big as twitter, right now? 5%? Canāt find a consistent answer.