Bluesky Is Now Courting Threads Users (thurrott.com) 12
Bluesky, the decentralized social network cofounded by Jack Dorsey, created a Threads account to court users frustrated by Meta's moderation issues. Thurrott reports: This week, the Bluesky team also used Threads to share some tips on how to get started on Bluesky, how to get more engagement, and more. The company also emphasized its decentralized structure and more extensive customization options, with the app recently introducing a new theme font, adjustable font sizing, and the ability to pin posts on top of profiles.
Bluesky also couldn't resist to engage in some strange trolling this week. "We're not like the other girls ... we're not owned by a billionaire," the team wrote on Threads yesterday. Of course, this the post that got the most engagement on the Bluesky Threads account with close to 500 comments as of this writing.
Bluesky also couldn't resist to engage in some strange trolling this week. "We're not like the other girls ... we're not owned by a billionaire," the team wrote on Threads yesterday. Of course, this the post that got the most engagement on the Bluesky Threads account with close to 500 comments as of this writing.
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Am I missing something by not using a service?
Just low doses of freedom with a sprinkle of data harvesting and a dash of communism.
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Yes, you're missing beautiful young European women who could stalk you online. /s
Like the original internet (Score:3, Informative)
We're not like the other girls ...
A recurring meme on BlueSky is, it's small volume, well-educated subscribers: That means a lack of knee-jerk response, world-owes-me fanatics praising Trump or Q-anon.
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BlueSky is to SpaceX, what Threads is to X. Even though Threads is also owned by some delusional billionaire.
Not owned by a billionaire? (Score:1)
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Dorsey founded it as a separate entity and I don't believe he was an active investor and he no longer sits on the board so there are definitely more degrees of separation between Dorsey and Bluesky than Musk and Twitter (of which there are none). To be fair to Dorsey this is what he texted Musk directly before the Twitter purchase about what Dorsey felt went wrong and Twitter and what he thought it should be (a protocol and a foundation).
Very thorough writeup here Is Bluesky Billionaire-Proof? [theintercept.com]
I certainly a
Slow burner (Score:1)
Blue Sky is basically Twitter without the assholes and that's as good a reason as any to use it instead of Twitter. There is quite a lot of engagement so it is gaining popularity. Threads may be the same for all I know but I haven't used it.
As far as social media is concerned I wonder why some of the big companies and government / non-government orgs stick with Twitter when they get nothing but abuse from it. Especially since these big orgs could adopt an agnostic policy, using tools that post the same cont
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Network effect, Twitter was and still is a massive platform so it's hard to break that. Users want to be where the people they follow are posting and the posters want to be where the eyeballs are, it's cyclical.
Back in "the day" it was simpler to have that big paradigm shift when platforms were new and not so entrenched (Myspace to Facebook, Digg to Reddit) but today is a different story.
I think everybody was expecting the same for Musk-Twitter when in reality it will instead be a death by a thousand cuts.
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Threads is essentially filled with engagement farmers and cam girls. There are a lot of Twitter expats, but Threads purposefully suppresses news where it can which to me is beyond belief. I have journalist friends that are absolutely frustrated because "X" is now elevating Nazis and MAGA, Threads suppresses news and they're not getting anywhere near the engagement, and BlueSky and even moreso Mastadon are ghost towns. So now they go back to "X" where they get more engagement.
If Threads could just clone old
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I think Mastodon is (sadly) a ghost town. I think Blue Sky is actually quite active. I sub to feeds on Twitter / Blue Sky and see engagement on Blue Sky which is perhaps 1/3 of Twitter. That may sound bad but considering it has a lot less than 1/3 the users I don't think that's bad at all. They have over 10 million active users and growing and I think there is a chance it will gain critical mass. Have to wait and see.
A lot of the engagement on Twitter is also the kind nobody should want which is why I think