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The dirty little secret about Bluesky is that it's actually pretty goddamn great on the inside. I have never in my life had normals asking for a social media in
by jpwerty 3y ago
The dirty little secret about Bluesky is that it's actually pretty goddamn great on the inside. I have never in my life had normals asking for a social media invite, but I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code.
It works, feels, tastes, shares, and functions like Classic Twitter without the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy. Shit stays put and is there when you return to the app. The timeline is hard chronological and the utter lack of ads is delightful. Hashtag hash is not missed. Everything just works with a modicum of taste to boot.
Threads is not an equivalent product.
- guraf 3y ago> I currently have a list of fourteen people waiting for a code. That tends to happen when there's an exclusive club, people want to peak in. It is, in no way, an indication of the quality of the platform. > the waves of repugnant users or miserably overbaked features. That tends to happen when there's hardly any users at all. The "repugnant" or "normals" will flock in all the same, if the platform ever takes off. > the utter lack of ads is delightful. That tends to happen in all pre-revenue startups. Twitter was ads-free for years.
- dkh 3y agoThey intend to not move to ads. This domain name feature was described specifically by bluesky as the first attempt at bringing in revenue from other means
- jpwerty 3y agoThanks for the cynicism but the quality of the platform is that I can currently, today, communicate with strangers and friends in good faith without being pelted by noxious crap or adtech gone asymptotic. Maybe it'll all be the usual grim broken carnival barking shit when you have an account too, but for right now we're all twirling in a teacup here.
- mrguyorama 3y agoThe noxious crap and adtech were all strapped on to Twitter by Jack, why would that not happen again?
- dkh 3y ago[flagged]
- Karsteski 3y agoWhat is the thing that Nazis do?
- RobKohr 3y ago[flagged]
- jtr1 3y agoAdvocate for racial hierarchies, spread hateful messages about various minorities, promote subjugation for women and violence as purification for men. The usually nazi shit, although the ones with extra brain cells try to be coy about it.
- Karsteski 3y agoFair enough. The reason I asked is because it seems people throw that word around very loosely now
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- seydor 3y agoThat's an illusion created by the self-selecting, invite-only nature of any product
- ummonk 3y agoSounds like Clubhouse before it went mainstream and the quality plummeted.
- brvsft 3y ago> Collaborative mute lists make screening out horseshit easy. Gotta have my filter bubble to protect me from 'misinformation.' At least this time it is crowdsourced so Jack doesn't even have to cooperate with any political campaigns.
- coldpie 3y agoWhat you want already exists. There's already tons of places online you can go to get a huge dose of conspiracy theories and racism. Your needs are met. Some of us would like to have places where that doesn't happen.
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- brvsft 3y agoRight, the Hunter Biden laptop story censored by Twitter for the benefit of one political party during a presidential election was somehow misinformation and also a conspiracy theory and racism. I find the complete unwillingness for everyone still moaning about misinformation to admit they were wrong about that laptop to be probably the most insane thing I've seen in my life. The laptop story wasn't even that important, but the incessant and belligerent lying or moving the goalposts about what happened is breathtaking. If you ever want to admit you're wrong, I won't make fun of you.
- dvt 3y agoDon't forget about the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy™ (which was anathema until ~6 months ago, but now it's the "leading theory").
- coldpie 3y agoSometimes when you try a thing, you'll get it wrong, and that sucks. But that doesn't mean it's not worth trying. I'm not aware of any significant damage done by Twitter getting that one wrong, and the decision took place in an environment of increasing anti-Asian violence in the US[1]. I have a hard time blaming them for trying to do something within their power while there were real consequences for inaction and the jury was still out. [1] https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975722882/the-rise-of-anti-asian-attacks-during-the-covid-19-pandemic https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975722882/the-rise-of-anti-as...
- devjab 3y ago> had normals asking What are "normals"?
- mcv 3y agoI think he's referring to the mundanes.