Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky.

there's quite a few people in this thread with the same weird vitriol as reddit had.
if someone uses bluesky and you don't, then why make yourself upset over it? i have both mastodon and bluesky. i use both.
I'm not sure why everything has to be a weird competition. some weird us vs. them shitfight.
its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
- Because I have seen 10 posts about how Bluesky is the new Twitter on my Lemmy feed in two days. I overreacted a bit, but what you say goes both ways. Absolutely use what you like but there is no need to spam a new platform like that.
  
  its because of all the new accounts that have been made there. that's likely why you're seeing so many posts about it.
  a mass exodus from one twitter to another is a big deal for a lot of people.
  
  Use word filters for the things you don't want to see.
  
  The same happened when everyone moved over from Dig to Reddit back in the day. It's really annoying for like 2 weeks with everyone talking about it, and then it calmed down.
- Because we all hate corpos.
  
  May the corpos die
- its literally just a social media platform. jeez.
  And we know what kind of control the platform owners have. "Just" doesn't cut it I think.
- Do you just call the owners of any company a Nazi? How are you defining Nazis here?
  Judging by your upvotes I must be out of the loop on something here.
  I tried to look into this claim and all I found was a CEO that's also a software dev Jay Graber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber (Nothing controversial that I could find in her posts at a cursory glance)
  A software dev that worked on XMPP (Jeremy Miller): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremie_Miller
  And the CEO and founder of TechDirt (Mike Masnick): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Masnick

Tech so loves to repeat the same loops, and IMO I think it's on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy.
(Number of people that have told me they think mastadon sounds like a good idea, but they don't know how to pick the right instance). I try and smack them and say "it's just like e-mail, you and your friends don't have to choose gmail, your friend can be on yahoo, and you still talk to eachother. Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.
So... we have a new platform, to replace twitter... yay!... should we take counts on how long before either enshittification begins, flooding of ads or changes to be unusable), or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc...
- it's on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy
  A bunch of people came over to Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, but they left because it was missing features. The big ones I saw were
  a lack of "trending" list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what's happening right now didn't have a way to find events
  no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?
  no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn't provide me with new posts.
  
  Also no quote tweets. And many people are used to algorithms now. I love Mastodon but I have to say Bluesky is more polished. Mastodon can be weird about threads and replies to posts. Sometimes I see a reply before I see the post, especially in the "lists" view. Chronological timeline is great but it has its own issues too. For example people living in different time zones will have their posts buried when everyone is asleep. The algorithm, for better or worse, shuffles things around which can work for you or against you. If you browse for 5 mins here and there, algorithm helps you see the most relevant posts in that widow. Having both chronological and algorthimic feeds would be so helpful to me in Mastodon. I know there a front end that does a "catch up" feature, but it's a bit hacky
  
  A couple of those items have at least been addressed to varying degrees now.
  There’s definitely a screen to show you “who to follow” now, and an Explore tab to show popular posts of the day.
  Not saying that solves all the problems, but at least they have made some strides in the last couple of years.
  
  That's lazy journalism. There's a functional search bar as well as trending hashtags.
  There will never be suggestions by design, but there's accounts like FediFollow and guides on how to get started with Mastodon. If you meet those people in the future, tell them to follow hashtags for topics they like, and encourage them to start using hashtags. They'll find people that way.
  This is also by design: there's no suggestions, because there's no algorithm. You decide what goes on in your feed (boosting is another important part of that). If you've looked at everything, explore a new hashtag, follow more people, check the Local or Global feeds, or Satan forbid anyone actually take that as a sign to take a break and go touch grass.
  
  Quite true... I suppose that's also the problem of the networks that are focused at privacy/control nerds first, and trying to get more mainstream users second.
  The suggested follow is the types of features we are afraid of... The developers came to these places because they don't want to be told what to do... IE literally that's the exact problem with twitter right now, is Musk is personally shoving his right wing crap in our faces whether we want to look at it or not. But what regular people want... is to have crap shoved in their faces that they like and agree with.
  Which I suppose development of mastadon and the like just hadn't reached the point, we go at minimum viable, and get what you specifically are looking for... with a lack of excitement for trying to use algorythms to tell people what they like.
- or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc...
  This cannot be overstated. That's exactly how Elon ended up with Twitter, and nobody should think for a second that there aren't richer, more tactful billionaires who could keep people credulously swimming in the propaganda in order to make their power plays.
  I give it four years before their first enshittifying changes are announced.
  
  richer, more tactful billionaires
  It's not even that complicated: at some point the non-billionaire investors are going to want a return on their investment, and they're going to push BlueSky, Inc. public and that's the end of that.
  An IPO is every bit as bad for independence as a nutjob buying your company, because you're really just selling your company to every nutjob who puts up $10.
- Whcih makes sense when explained, but it seems like few hear that kind of comparison.
  And then you bring up defederation and/or how instances can die at any time and you lose them again...
  At least that's how it usually goes for me and trying to advertise Lemmy. Not really a fan of "microblogging" to begin with no matter the platform.

Long live Activity Pub.

My only interest regarding Bluesky is i don't care about Bluesky. Long live Mastodon, Lemmy, Fedia, and the rest of the Fediverse!

Same as the old boss...

Bluesky is dead. Long live Mastodon.
- Maybe we need to start writing our own articles like this.

Let me get this straight:
Person A makes a social network
People flock to it
Person A sells the social network to person B
Networks does a 180, destroying communitie; people outraged.
Same person A makes a social network
People flock to it.
[surely we can predict what is going to happen here, right?]
- This doesn't really change your point at all, but I remember reading the tech news surrounding the Twitter sale to Musk as it was happening. If memory serves, Musk literally made the $420/share purchase offer as a joke, a joke that several lawsuits were filed to decide it was a serious and legally binding offer.
  He memed his way into owning Twitter against his will, and then burned down everything to assuage his ego. But because he's a goddamn billionaire there are literally no repercussions.

Lol, Blusky fan boys are quite active today. I'm sure this millionnaire's toy will be better than the previous one, good luck.
- The way I look at it, I know it's probably going to end up being shit in the end, but it'll be a few years until that happens, and it will be fun in the meantime.
  Just because you know I'll have to leave at some point doesn't mean that you don't enjoy the party while it lasts
  
  And then what? You'll move to Truth social? Then Thread? And then to X2? Meanwhile there's a decentralize alternative that gives back the control to users, you're welcome to join.

This one is probably also run by a right wing techie as well
- I'm OK with that, as long as they keep their mouths shut.

Bluesky can fuck right off as well. I tried it to see if it was any different than Twitter but I had to nope out after 10 minutes.
I've never understood the whole Twitter formula anyways. Scroll through endless ramblings of people I don't care about? No thanks.
There are far better places to stay informed about certain topics or get in touch with people you know.
- Not every social media format is for everyone, no need to be hostile about it. I just can't bring myself to engage with TikTok and Reels and such, but other people really like them and why would that be a problem for me?
  
  Well, I do believe twitter makes people less intelligent^* which lead to Americans electing Trump (twice even), which eventually impacts me somewhere down the line.
  ^* Because the focus on short sentence and the engagement algorithms favours highly polarised angry one liners that trigger primal emotion and is a successful assassination of any intelligent discourse.
  And I say that having seen the progressive brain rot of my parents after they retired and started doomscrolling on twitter and being bombarded by more and more extreme messages, until it became a constant stream that can be summarised roughly by "brown people = bad".
  
  What about his comment is hostile?
- There isn't a better place to get sports news than twitter. I'm seeing a lot of sports writers personalities start to post on Blue sky. I love it.

Twitter is dead. Long live [name]. I saw this show before.

is bluesky privately owned? What is preventing this whole thing just happening again?

Maybe they should have done this about a year ago.

I love that the people who weren't smart enough to leave Twitter two years ago are now eagerly jumping from one frying pan into another.
Fortunately there have been a few who learned their lessons a bit late and came over to Mastodon.
But the rest of them? The one who tolerated the racism and misogyny that Musk brought with his red pilled idiots? Let them have Blue Sky and the rest of us can watch as history eventually repeats itself.

I like the X on top of the bird. Nice

Is there any FOSS Bluesky client. I want to give it a shot after so many artist moved to it from Xhitter. Even some game dev like Localthunk(Balatro) and ZUN(Touhou) moved to it.
- I've noticed quite a lot of devs are moving over to blue sky. I feel like there's some blog post I've missed or something which everyone has paid attention to. Why are they doing it now? Twitter has being shit for ages.
- https://docs.bsky.app/showcase?tags=client
  
  Thanks.
- Seems their official/main app is FOSS
  https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/

Just because democrats are leaving Twitter, this doesn't make it dead in the slightest sense of the word
- The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow--as always.

If I want an echo chamber, I'll just go back to reddit. Bluesky is ass.
- Because Lemmy is equally an echo chamber, and historically people do not like being reminded of inconvenient truths.