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I think the reason it works that way is because they want strong guarantees for the future portability of your skeets. It's sort of a correction for Mastodon's reliance on server admins' goodwill.

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I’m cackling over here. How have I never heard this when people talk about blue sky?

To the windoooooooooooooooooooow....

Surely this is what he was talking about. Lil John was decades ahead of his time.

A Lil Jon reference on a HN thread about Bluesky was most definitely not on my 2025 bingo card. But I'll take it.

Talking of "Jon" and "Skeet", there is a fairly well known programmer called Jon Skeet. If you are a C# developer good chance he has answered you stack overflow question!

If you are a bit older, you'd remember the same guy fighting for Java in bloody flame wars against C and C++ on Usenet. When I first saw him as a C# devotee on Stack Overflow, I was surprised it's the same guy.

Some people got the idea it has something to do with some song because (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary said so when the actual meaning is "sky tweet."

hah, good one

> (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary

<troll> The definition of dictionary is just "Words about words" (source: Urban Dictionary), so I'd say that Urban Dictionary qualifies. </troll>

UD has been quoted in court cases, it's absolutely a dictionary.

UD documents existing connotations of words and expressions. That you don't think it's an actual dictionary doesn't change the fact that those connotations exist.

"sky tweet" is also a stupid name since a tweet is already the name for a post on a very specific platform.

I'm not sure I get why "sky tweet" is a stupid name. "Tweet" was a pretty arbitrarily chosen name for a post on Twitter, but now that "tweet" is a pretty established word, it seems reasonable to use a portmanteau based on that word for a platform based on that platform.

Though in practice I think "skeet" was a bit of a fad to be provocative, and most people just call them tweets, even on bluesky.

The song didn’t create the word, it just popularized a word that was already in use when the song came out.

They need to come up with their own term or confirm they are OK that the name skeet is a sex act. You don't get to just pretend the term doesn't exist because you didn't listen to one of the most popular songs of that decade using an already well established term. It's also heavily used in one of the most popular comedy shows of that decade as well The meaning is well established

I mean, the CEO of bsky used skeet unironically in interviews so I'd say it's a-ok

> not an actual dictionary

Go on, tell us what you think an "actual dictionary" is.

People certainly talk about this _on_ bluesky. No idea how much it's escaped outside.

I use bluesky all the time and have yet to use the term "skeet".

I don't think it's important. What is important is using a sane environment. X is completely crazy.

can we just come up with one common term to to refer to all of my these between sites

"post"

"tweet"

No. Let twitter burn and be forgotten.

You mean like "Xerox"?

Make a community on X and only let sane people in.

Oh I think it’s very important and it’s all we should talk about right now

To the window, to the wall! To my social media feed I crawl!

does anybody in this thread actually know what skeet means? i’m laughing as well at the idea of a bunch of people thinking they’re getting back at twitter by skeeting on the internet.

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