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Comment by adzm | Hacker News Reader

Agreed, it's a really fun community. I hope it lasts

The only thing keeping me around as someone who never comments or tweets, is that there are some great local accounts (to me) like weather, police, news, concerts, etc... Any chance these move over? I'm not looking for some great community, I just enjoy timely posts I guess.

Its weird how all these useful local info accounts end up being dependent on platforms that promote noise makers and attention cravers.

It’s not like local weather guy is likely to get anyone on just his website or such these days.

So the current dynamic is - platforms use noise makers to draw in crowds, then signal producers like the weather guy go where the crowds are.

Does Bluesky change this dynamic?

I do not know. But I know the dynamic of local weather guy with his own site is likely not a winning play.

if only there was some kind of tool that allow producers to cross post to multiple social medias at once..

Feels like there is a need for a message broker platform, where these local accounts can sign up and push messages out to whomever wants them via socials, SMS, RSS, whatevs. Buffer meets Svix for social/messaging PubSub or something similar vs Yet Another Platform.

Mastodon would be perfect for these but there is no critical mass at least yet.

mastodon is a fediverse client

Please share once you find out! In $EUROPEAN_CAPITAL here it seems local govt. runs on twitter and facebook. Since I got banned from twitter for following those during covid (with no posts or likes made) I kinda wish there was a rss feed or mailing list for information posted by official institutions.

bsky would do.

One way people here could help with that is to improve posting tools.

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.

It's also one of the least diverse communities I've seen. Almost everyone is white and western, twitter is extremely diverse in comparison.

Unfortunately, Bluesky being the "popular" alternative just means it's going to turn to shit faster.

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.

I dont think it will because the moderation tools available to people are better and actually work..

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..

One consequence of naughty ol’ Mr Car’s ascension to the Bird Throne was that mass-blocking lists, which were always a bit of a hack but somewhat worked, became unusable. Bluesky has blocklists as a first-class function; it will be awash with Nazis, but you won’t have to look at them unless you want to. AI slop may be trickier, but that’s really a challenge the whole web is facing at the moment.

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