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My whole community has moved from twitter to bsky. The first push was for mastodon, but that died out after a few weeks. But all action is on bsky now, not twit
by matsemann 3y ago
My whole community has moved from twitter to bsky. The first push was for mastodon, but that died out after a few weeks. But all action is on bsky now, not twitter, so I feel most have migrated fully, not just double posting.
- skybrian 3y agoWhat sort of community?
- matsemann 3y agoCycling / urban planning / environmental in my country. So it's quite niche. A couple of hundreds. But that's also how I used Twitter. An account specifically for this. Only ever followed or interacted with content related to this. So not using it to consume other content, write about anything that comes to mind etc.
- chatmasta 3y agoThe fact that your whole community was insular enough to move to an invite-only app is exactly what worries me about Bluesky. It's just a bunch of cliques. Is that sustainable? We'll see. I do like the technical vision, a lot. But I haven't been able to try it out because any time I felt the desire to look, nobody could actually link me to a post or a feed. So I never achieved the required activation energy to even look at it, nevermind adding it to my doomscrolling repertoire or signing up to the thing. Opening up the posts is a good first step to sustainable adoption. Now next time people are mad at Twitter they'll have an outlet instead of being met with a brick wall when they finally get the urge to try something new.
- rileyphone 3y agoHere's a few invite codes for anyone to use (maybe reply if you successfully use one) bsky-social-exnc4-5h2qb bsky-social-cocv2-coy6u bsky-social-txqzx-nqhw3 bsky-social-h6snn-255ig
- blondin 3y agothanks, used the first one.
- knubie 3y agoI used the second one, thanks!
- metadat 3y agoThey're all used up. Womp womp.
- brycewray 3y agoAnd a few more here... bsky-social-yxngj-y5dad bsky-social-fo32f-lz7p5 bsky-social-6txdl-ppkes bsky-social-ihhnj-w4e24 bsky-social-3kidb-2tagv
- CraftingLinks 3y agoI was ready to move. You need an invite? I don't have an invite. Really? Yes. Here's my middle finger. Twitter/X for life!!
- matsemann 3y agoAs I wrote in another comment, it's a clique that I moved with, yes. Related to urban planning, cycling infrastructure etc in my country. If anything, the move has been nice. No longer daily death threats from car drivers thinking that's a proportionate response for us advocating for a new bicycle lane.. Being a small group of course made the transition easier. Most of us didn't use Twitter to follow all kinds of stuff, just mostly these things. And while being a clique, with no outside influences, can be bad, the "influences" you now get from blue checks on X isn't anything worth having. Just abuse.
- hn1986 3y agoSeveral communities have migrated elsewhere, some to Bluesky, others to Threads. It's great that there are these alternatives now