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A New Look for Bluesky: The Social Butterfly

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18 pointsjakebsky10 comments

I got a Bluesky invite a few weeks ago, checked it out and … there were absolute crickets there.

Most posts I found had 0 comments, 0 reposts and at most 1-digit likes.

For a social network, it might have all the technology and protocol-work in place, but to me it seems to be failing pretty hard on the social bit?

Am I missing something? Are there certain topics, demographics or high-profile “influencers” thriving here?

Anyone here using bluesky and thinking it’s working out nicely?

I've preferred it to Mastodon so far. Way too many abilities to it; BlueSky is just Twitter but open and not much more, which really, is all I want anyways.

This does not match my experience. I’m following several active posters — with thousands of followers — who post several times a day. Most of the posts I see get plenty of engagement.

The demographics of the folks I follow tend towards the left of center. There are a large number of authors (eg Neil Gaiman) who are very active. There are is also a very pleasant lack of Nazis and white-supremacists.

I love it there.

The web community has yet to join. They all have accounts with posts from months ago.

If you want more of the old school Twitter public square, you, then the Discourse feed where you want to be:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/fe...

For those who didn't click: this article is mostly an announcement of their new logo, a blue butterfly.

They buried the important piece:

"Starting today, you can easily view Bluesky posts without being logged in. Sharing will be more convenient — whether it's a joke you want to text a friend, or a post you want to embed in an article."

And a pile of trite writing…

Also updating your guys that AI social chat net netwrck. Com has the same logo.

i'm really disappointed with the twitter alternatives. i thought one might feel like early twitter before the culture war takeover, but bsky and mastodon are just left wing hugbox versions of the same thing. threads is nothing but brands, E-list "celebrities" and "influencers" out for a buck. i've even gotten desperate enough to try substack notes, but it's just a tacked-on halfass feature. is there really no choice but to fight the hackernews ui to find technical discussions on interesting topics?

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