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linkgoron said:
Not sure if this isn't Mastodon all over again. There was huge hype, and then everything died out pretty quickly.
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I hope it's for real this time. Not that I ever had a Twitter account in the first place. I found its ubiquitous presence in the media irritating even long before Musk arrived on the scene (all those stupid stories in the 'proper' newspapers that amounted to 'some random nobodies are saying things on Twitter').
But Musk's version of Twitter needs to go the way of Murdoch's MySpace.
 
Oric said:
Yesterday the user base exceeded 20 million, gaining almost a million new users per day.

I am no longer using my Twitter/X account and switched to BlueSky
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Wasn’t the same thing said about “threads” last year and that other one I forgot the name of 18 months ago?
 
Pens1566 said:
Threads has several hundred million users. It is by no means "dead".
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I have yet to figure out what it is actually useful for though. If they were totally happy with it I don't think Meta would be trying to lure people over there by injecting random posts into people's Instagram feeds.
 
K1052 said:
I have yet to figure out what it is actually useful for though. If they were totally happy with it I don't think Meta would be trying to lure people over there by injecting random posts into people's Instagram feeds.
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It's a very "light" use case to me. And I wouldn't read too much into the cross injection. They do the same on FB with insta vids as well.
 
amenx said:
Still a lot of businesses, journalists, government officials use X extensively. For practical purposes they may not want to leave or dont care about Musks antics or policies. And there are around 400 million X users so too early for BS to make much of an impact.
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IMHO, government accounts should only be on platforms that are fully viewable without an account. Twitter used to be good for that, but X has made that worse. Not sure about Bluesky.
 
Pens1566 said:
It's a very "light" use case to me. And I wouldn't read too much into the cross injection. They do the same on FB with insta vids as well.
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Haven't been on FB for going on a decade now so didn't know they are doing the same over there. Anyway I deleted the Threads app because I wasn't getting any value out of it. Only use Insta for food because restaurants heavily use it.
 
JD50 said:
Elon literally spent 44 billion dollars to create a safe space for conservatives.
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Musk takes over and use of the word n***er goes up 500%. And before you claim free speech a reporter who posted a JD Vance dossier on Twitter was banned.
 
iRONic said:
Meh, the only social media I use is this forum. And, is it really social media? I just don't have the energy to be hopping all over different platforms.
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I do think it's different, but still technically "social media". Primary difference being there is no algorithm determining what content we're presented here, by default you see whatever threads get created, or the ones that have been updated most recently. Social media tending to be driven by individuals/topics you've followed, and associated content the platform's algorithm has determined to present to you. I haven't really been able to engage much with that form of media feed.
 
@Perknose @esquared @allisolm

Would it help if we all joined up and created a list of each other to inform each other if the forum has an unforeseen trouble at some point?

Might not be a bad idea as bluesky actually allows lists.. it's how a lot of my football club's fans are managing to find each other quickly.. which is making things much easier than tribel/ mastodon.

This is just an example:

colfran (@colfran.bsky.social)

Anyone who wants to be added to the Bluesky City starter pack, let me know. go.bsky.app/4kngnbj [contains quote post or other embedded content]
bsky.app bsky.app
 
THE PROBLEM WITH BLUESKY is that Jack is gonna take the company public at some point at which time some billionaire asshole might just buy it up and rebrand it Truth 3.0. Again.
 
cytg111 said:
THE PROBLEM WITH BLUESKY is that Jack is gonna take the company public at some point at which time some billionaire asshole might just buy it up and rebrand it Truth 3.0. Again.
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Jack is no longer affiliated with bluesky, he left in a fit - https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
🙂

Bluesky Social, officially named Bluesky Social PBC, is a privately-owned for-profit corporation. The company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Bluesky Social is a benefit corporation; as such, it is allowed to use its profits for the public good, and is not obligated to maximize shareholder value or return profits to its shareholders as dividends. It is owned by CEO Jay Graber and other Bluesky Social employees. Graber has the largest ownership share of the company. In late 2024, members of the board of directors included Graber, Jeremie Miller, Mike Masnick, and Kinjal Shah.
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