Bluesky experiment test 2
This is a second test post for the blog’s Bluesky plugin. If it works, I’ll soon discontinue the blog feed to X.
…Beautiful. It works!
https://bsky.app/profile/mtlcity.bsky.social
If you’re following Bluesky feeds, there’s also my environmental stories feed, which is a thing in itself, not a separate blog:
Anton 15:17 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
Is that like the new Twitter or what. Anybody using it?
Joey 17:30 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
Anton, its numbers are growing at a clip of 1 million new users per day this week, as everyone who isn’t a MAGA chud abandons X for something less toxic.
Chris 17:31 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
Yes, it’s a new X-like thing, some Lefties are flocking to it since Trump won. My money is on it fizzling, like previous X replacement fads. Ultimately, the network effect generally wins.
walkerp 17:55 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
Looking good! Followed them both.
Kevin 19:24 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
I’ve been on Bluesky for more than a year, and in the past month it’s gone from being pretty quiet to amazing.
Twitter is increasingly useless — I’m only on it because politicians and police forces post there.
EmilyG 19:54 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
I had a similar experience as Kevin. I follow more and more people on Bluesky now that more people have recently joined.
Mozai 20:12 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
If the reason to flee a popular space is “there are terrible people there,” then switching to the second-popular place is just postponing until enough people show up that the terrible people’s stench spreads. But if the reason to flee is the space’s structure — the injection of unwanted and un-asked-for information, the “trending” encouragements that are patently false, the caretakers of the space muting some voices and boosting others, mis-attributing or forging author information — then yeah, get thee hence.
Kevin 22:37 on 2024-11-17 Permalink
Musk bought Twitter with the goal of destroying it/turning it into an echo chamber for his brand of grifting. He succeeded.
Chris 11:56 on 2024-11-18 Permalink
Twitter was a left wing echo chamber before. Now it’s more of a right ring echo chamber. It sucked then, and it sucks now.
walkerp 12:33 on 2024-11-18 Permalink
This echo chamber criticism is such bullshit. It’s called “social” media. I don’t invite somebody with opposing political views who wants to constantly challenge my every statement over to my house to hang out. Why would I want them when I am faffing around on the internet?
Twitter’s success was first because it was fun and second because it allowed you to curate your news and info flow. Now that Musk turned off the moderation tools and allowed bots and trolls to run wild to bump up the numbers and more importantly to turn it into a propaganda machine, it is no longer fun and no longer reliable.
But nobody went there to be constantly “challenged” by a bunch of bad actors and “free speech” shitbags.
Kate 15:00 on 2024-11-18 Permalink
Beautifully put, walkerp!