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KAYDUBELL@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do we know this bluesky isn’t just the same shit run by different assholes?
fantawurstwasser@feddit.org 1 year ago
We know that it is run by the same assholes. Bluesky is VC backed and Twitter was also. There is no way that Bluesky won’t go the same route as every other VC backed social network. Sometime in the future they will start to meddle with your feed to push ads and sell your data to everyone.
Asetru@feddit.org 1 year ago
This makes me wonder so hard why people don’t switch to Mastodon instead. Like… You have literally seen this before! Why are you doing it again?
dog_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been on the platform for about a year, it’s more community driven than other sites.
sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
we already know bluesky is run by former twitter folks. the fact that people never learn and move on to a guaranteed platform like mastodon is astounding; but i guess it’s humanity in a nut shell.
T156@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Although it also helps that places like BlueSky have less of a barrier to entry.
Alternatives like Mastodon are a bit more confusing, compared to a centralised site, where everything is linked in through the one interface.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
We can’t, but at least there is a chance it is not.
With Xitter, we know for certain.
mm_maybe@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
We don’t. It probably is. Mastodon is the way, but they need to fix a few things themselves.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do we know mastadon isn’t just owned by Musk too?
billbasher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Opt out is such a shitty practice. Especially for AI generation
Suavevillain@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bluesky is pretty great once you learn how to use it. I plan to slowly back off twitter.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bluesky is the promise of Mastodon with none of the failsafes of Mastodon.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Bluesky is vc backed by investors, it is a false promise that I am sure a lot of people working on the project believe, but it is a fale promise all the same.
Bluesky is in the part of its lifecycle where investors tolerate no return on their investment in favor of drawing more people in. That is the relevant difference between Bluesky and other social media.
There are cool parts to Bluesky but it is absolutely a false promise of a future the fediverse already provides. It is also full of “liberal” sheep who tell themselves they think differently but are so locked into the mindset of the way things are that they NEED their social network to be owned and operated for a profit by people orders of magnitude more wealthy than them.
Bluesky will end up essentially the same as all investor backed for-profit social networks, a toxic, centralized shithole (or in this case pseudo-centralized because of the moderation system).
Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But is it filled with the people that many want to follow and interact with? Twitter was popular for this reason, and people will tolerate being advertised to and sold on if it recreates that experience.
I had brief conversations on Twitter with Ice-T and John Carmack. Twitter’s nature enabled that remarkable connection. Could it happen on Mastodon? Absolutely, but those celebrities and geniuses need to embrace it. If it’s Bluesky, it’s better than X if only for a time.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That type of social media just isn’t really for me. But why would one want to choose Bluesky over Mastadon?
ahal@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Because users value usability over privacy.
The major thing that make Mastodon unusable is lack of users. That and lack of algorithmic feeds.
pycorax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m mostly still on Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese artists and bands. Now plenty of them are jumping out BlueSky so off I go.
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s how Facebook went for me the last time I tried to use it with a new account… I was immediately swamped with friend requests from people in eastern and central Africa. I accepted some out of curiosity so of course FB decided that’s what I was really into. I’m not sure if these people just send out random requests or why they want to add Americans… I didn’t get hit up for scams or anything, it was just people posting and sharing photos of their lives as normal FB users.
stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
1 reason for me, the algorithm. I can never find a lot of new thing to discover or new people to follow on Mastodon when I first started, which makes me not use it very much even now.
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Social media like Twitter it preys on people’s fear of missing out. Manufactured Problem - not being up to date on internet bullshit. Marketed solution - be on twitter. Supply and demand died a long time ago. Now it’s all about manufactured problems, and conveniently marketed solutions.
This sort of psychological manipulation in marketing works. It’s why it’s so hard to get people to leave websites like Twitter, reddit, fb ect. They’ve made their brands synonymous with media trends.
It took long enough, but I’m genuinely happy to see folks wising up and realizing they don’t “need” Twitter. It’s like watching a bunch of people break up with a toxic ex all at the same time.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not just Twitter. FOMO was what kept me on Reddit far longer than I should have been there.
sweetpotato@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
These mfs will use literally anything except for open source, decentralised social meda
toybastard@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is bluesky not federated?
Strepto@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It is but from what I understand it doesn’t run on ActivityPub. Rather it runs on AT Protocol
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The masses yearn for the corporate boot
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do they drift back though. Bigger accounts seems to struggle to kick the Twitter high .
Miphera@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just like a real girlfriend, but better. Apart from you having absolutely no sex life and apart from the fact that it has absolutely no emotional attachment or attraction to you whatsoever. And it will also never do anything like buy you dinner or a birthday present. Enjoy throwing money at your robot that you can’t even fuck like a fleshlight.
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No, they can sync with toys like fleshlights now.
Amir@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
How does this blocking thing make sense?
Either the profile is public, which means you can still open it on another account, or it’s private, which means no one can see it anyways if they’re not an accepted follower.
I don’t see how anything changes from Musk’s change…
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is 500,000 actually a lot? Honest question, my sense of scale with these things is shaky.
itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
For Twitter? No
For Bsky? Yes
Mwa@lemm.ee 1 year ago
even tho twitter is ruined by him people will still use it
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How do you ruin something that was toxic garbage before.
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
By making it even worse?
Mwa@lemm.ee 1 year ago
oh yeah true you got me people say elon musck ruined twitter
mochisuki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Network effect is a hell of a drug
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just helpful to remember, as all this horseshit persists, Bluesky is Jack Dorsey. Dorsey is former head of Twitter and musk’s good buddy.
It’s all a losing proposition, whatever direction you move - except if you move… Away.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 year ago
He left in May.
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So he’s completely removed from anything to do with that company and isn’t inherently woven into the DNA as it’s very recent founder?
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 year ago
He left the board. As a “public benefit organization” it’s still a for-profit company and he still owns stock.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dunno. I’d say it’s more important to see what exactly he’s doing and what Bluesky is.
Right now Bluesky is really good. So until it turns bad I’m sticking to it.
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
When people tell you who they are, believe them
deathbird@mander.xyz 1 year ago
I hate Twitter, but I’m getting to the point where I want it to get better because if bluesky gets many more members we’re just gonna have Twitter again.
One thing I liked about the Muskification of Twitter was the scattering.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Neoliberal guano website is better than Nazi guano website
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Idiots users just recreating conditions that created their misery in the first place. Freedom doesn’t happen from the grace of some cult leader and their slightly less immediately hostile app
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What sets it apart is that on Bluesky you can create your own algorithm. You can also share this algorithm, if you want, so others can subscribe to it. This means you see only what you want to see, and not what some corporate algorithm wants to see to maximise some kind of engagement.
Moreover, Bluesky is also its own federation. There aren’t many who choose to do so, but you can connect to Bluesky using your own domain, which you have complet control over.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wait this whole article just baselessly assumes that 1 new bluesky account = 1 person leaving twitter. That is so obviously unrealistic. Sure some people were probably curious and wanted to check out something new but that doesn’t mean they will immediately switch platforms.
You can’t just make fun of Those Guys for endlessly believing fake bullshit while unquestionably parroting this garbage.
Istolla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Getting a 100000 new users when Twitter loses roughly the same amount is a pretty significant correlation.
takeda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter is for narcissists, and when they say Mastodon is not as good as twitter they really mean that there’s not as many people watching them as on Twitter. So Bluesky gaining 500,000 new accounts could help in making it “better”.
vzq@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Mastodon is still pretty rough around the edges. Especially for the regular Twitter Instagram crowd.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The headline directly says half a million users left twatter. As far as I can tell that is literally a lie.
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ive been enjoying bluesky more than twitter. i just wish more bug accounts would migrate. i post on both platforms with a script that i wrote and my engagement on bluesky on a per follower basis is far higher.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I tried Bluesky but just couldn’t get into it. Same with Mastodon. I like Lemmy because long-form posts/comments are more interesting to me. I’m liking Threads, too.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like the long form posts and I also find those sort of sites way too fast-moving to keep up with.
Maybe it’s because I’m an old man who grew up on BBSes, but forums are much more my speed.
tja@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What would you say makes threads better than the other mikroblogging services?
Jordan117@lemmy.world 1 year ago
While anything that gets people off Twitter is good, I’m sorely unimpressed by those artists who “had to” to patronize the racist transphobic neo-Nazi hellhole “because my audience is there”… until Musk’s policies happened to offend their own personal interests, by requiring training for their AI. Countless models trained on all public images already exist, jumping ship won’t prevent their work from being scraped elsewhere, and frankly, any one image or even portfolio will contribute virtually nothing to the result, so quitting in protest is largely symbolic. But so many peoples drew the line at that, and not at Musk making “cis” a slur, or protecting child pornographers, or boosting white supremacist supremacy theories. It’s really disappointing to see.
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 1 year ago
Yeah this is pretty much how I feel.
I loathe musk, and despise twitter, and I’m happy about anything they will be unhappy about.
That said, I don’t have a lot of respect for anyone who is still there. Journalists, politicians, anyone who has to be there for their job… I still just don’t have a lot of respect for them.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
This is a lesson in humanity. Artists can be pieces of shit too and to be an artist, so committed to oneself and one’s thoughts is to be to some extent - narcissistic, and in the end they look out for self interest first, and it’s only that the AI portion of this threatens their self-interest do they become concerned. #NotAll, ofc.
Like I said before, solidarity of the scorpion with the turtle.
madcat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That’s how blocking and banning on the internet has always worked. When you block someone they just can’t reply to you. The way it was until now is just weird. Why would blocking an account prevent them from viewing your public posts!? “Stalkers” can always make another account.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m wondering the same thing. I never really used Twitter, couldn’t people just stalk without being logged in? Or was this to weed out the least motivated stalkers?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You used to. Not anymore. Musk made it so that if you try to view somebody’s profile, and you aren’t logged in, you don’t see anything except for a big box asking you to log in.
Also, it’s not so much about stalking per se, but being able to reshare posts (and thus bully) their targets. The way X is right now, they’d have to have a direct link to the post in question and then screenshot it.
madcat@lemm.ee 1 year ago
couldn’t people just stalk without being logged in?
Yes, you can. That’s why it was even dumber.
Euphorazine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So let’s say on Twitter, someone blocks me and I can’t read their post. Can’t I just log out and read their post that way? I don’t have a Twitter account, so I’ve never seen a blocked link before.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Someone could just open another account with a new mail address. Blocking doesn’t help much against stalkers as long as your posts are public.
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Nope, and I love it because it means I literally never have to look at anything on twitter ever again
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 year ago
X is authwalled
Euphorazine@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I can see this random tweet from Taylor Swift just fine in incognito mode. I can’t look at replies but I can see her posts.
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude that’s going to be one hell of a racist AI just based in the dataset it’s gonna receive
Lon3star@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Come on over to Mastodon, the water’s nice
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
What pros are there to having a blocked person still be able to see your posts?
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
No one leaves Twitter. They always come back. People are so addicted.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
has so far only been used to train Musk’s own Grok AI
The Grok models are a laughing stock in the LLM space. They aren’t good over APIs, and they’re even less useful after Elon “open sources” them far later. Qwen 72B, and heck, Qwen 32B is already better than Grok 2, which is probably hundreds of billions of parameters. The later is runnable locally right now, Apache 2.0, and released day one. Grok 1 is… well, I dunno, no one has even bothered to try hosting it for anything.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And that’s on top of all the Brazil users who fled to BlueSky when he refused to comply with a court order (and pay a fine) so they blocked Twitter for a few days. I’m not sure how many went back after he paid the fine but BlueSky was fairly popular in Brazil even during the closed beta so I’m sure a ton stuck around.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a garbage dataset to train off. The majority of everything there is all bots and AI anyway lol
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, that’s probably 30% of real people still using it
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I justo go where the japanese artists go, and they are going to either blue sky or misskey, mostly blue sky since it has a bigger reach
IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Misskey is like mastodon so you can just go to another misskey instance.
But if you’re talking about the misskey.io instance, it’s not that defederated from my experience (the 3 instances I’m on aren’t defederated from it).
The instance simply follows Japanese law so whatever Japan allows they allow and whatever Japan forbids they forbid (which is why censoring genitals is also mandatory in that instance lol). It’s not like it’s some nazi cesspool or anything like that.
Voltage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Japan is weird as fuck. I just saw a Japanese disc store collaborate with an incest sleep rape game.
yamanii@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I don’t know how to see how much an instance is defederated, I just concluded it must be in the same rate of baraag because both misskey.io and it allows loli art. I know that baraag is on some default block list for administrators for example.