I am here: https://bsky.app/profile/benhouston3d.bsky.social
I used this tool to find accounts that match on both platforms:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
Maybe that is the future for BlueSky as well, but at the moment I am enjoying it and more people I followed on Twitter are making the move.
Does Bluesky change this dynamic?
bsky would do.
I have a couple of informational bots. It's a lot easy for me when I can just download a cli tool and run that to post than if I have to signup to a platform as a developer and then write custom code to login via OAuth.
Actually if I have to write code to talk to OAuth I probably won't bother.
Currently using bsky to post to BlueSky and paying for IFTTT because I have to make time to sit down and get twurl working.
I have an account there because so many people seem to be moving from Twitter to Bluesky instead of Mastodon, for understandable reasons, but I expect Bluesky to be be awash in bots, AI and Nazis within a year. That's just the way things go now.
If i block someone they are gone from my timeline, their replies are gone from my posts even to other people..
If someone re-post me and i don't like the context i can go there and "disconnect" my post from their re-post..
Also Bluesky has public block lists anyone can create and sign-up for, those accounts would be noticed very fast and included in some block list if they start getting any traction..
So while it is not impossible for those accounts to exist, it is much harder for then to get traction..
And if they get traction it is much easier to hide then from our and our followers view..
Echo chambers are, by default, less combative.
As Twitter becomes more hiveminded, you can expect it to become less combative, as well.
Could it also be that people who left Twitter are simply less politically minded, and by definition will be less combative if they get to focus on their interests instead of their differences?
I left Twitter in 2017 because I was only there to get one liner jokes from professional comedians and follow some record label releases. I’m not joining any platform where memes and other low quality opinions are the primary modes of communication
Similarly, I expect Trump and Elon will have a falling out rather quickly. Two megalomaniacal narcissists don't generally play nicely for very long. When that happens, Elon won't be able to help himself from whacking the bees nest he's created, by criticizing Trump. I expect the combativeness of twitter to skyrocket soon afterwards.
Hardly appealing for someone like me who goes on twitter less because there's too much politics
The network effects of Twitter/X are just incredibly powerful. Even many people who ostensibly dislike the fact that it has become a right wing propaganda tool seem reluctant to actually leave.
I think there'll be a tipping point where nobody of value is posting enough for anybody else to bother checking in, death spiralling its usefulness. It's already 80% bots, grifters, and engagement farmers.