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Regarding your edit, much of bluesky's culture is developing in reaction to Twitter, or based on lessons learned from it. That block-first attitude is a respons
by delecti 3y ago
Regarding your edit, much of bluesky's culture is developing in reaction to Twitter, or based on lessons learned from it. That block-first attitude is a response both to the kinds of bots that are endemic on Twitter, and to the kinds of engagement-bait that made it such a mess at times. New follower looks like it might be a bot? Block. See a skeet from someone who looks like an asshole? Block. Don't feed the trolls, just block and move on. Personally I tend to mute, rather than block, but I think lots of social media would be better if people didn't boost things they dislike for the purpose of dunking or disagreeing.
And to be clear, not all of bluesky's culture is a response to twitter, a lot of it is just the kind of lighthearted playfulness you can only get on a small and new social network.
- kevinmchugh 3y agoI mute annoying posters (the frequent users who already have >5k posts tend to be uninteresting to me and obviously show up more often in feeds), that makes sense to me. How goes my experience improve if I block a bot that follows me? Follower bots is a platform problem
- delecti 3y agoI think it's mostly the same motivation as blocking assholes, partly "I don't want to be part of your attempt to game the algorithm" and partly "I don't want to see this".
- everybodyknows 3y agoWhat is a "skeet"?
- delecti 3y agoThe unofficial name for a post on bluesky. It comes from a combination of "sky" and "tweet". The people running the site don't like that name, which of course only made people embrace it even more.
- pests 3y agoIt's also slang for ejaculation, so there's that. As Lil Jon might say, To the window, to the wall! Til the sweat drop down my balls Til all these bitches crawl Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn! Til all skeet skeet motherfuckers, all skeet skeet god damn!
- delecti 3y agoIncidentally that's also a big part of why the people running the site don't like the name, and why the users do.
- pests 3y agoI don't know what's worse, this or toots. Can't we admit Twitter had the perfect name for it, and now that twitter is gone, we can all just call them tweets? Its almost absurd. Like if phone companies decided to brand text messages and someone got to "Texts" first so companies came up with "Blurts" and "Yells" or "Phonomails" and now we use a different verb based on which walled-garden we are in. edit: In thinking on this more, I do think this might impact the image of the communty. The hot lists and other feeds are dominated by the furry community, which is fine, but not everyone's cup of tea. Now naming posts / the verb be an euphemism of ejaculation... it just feels immature and is everyone going to feel welcome?
- kevinmchugh 3y agoI really think "tweeting" worked to make it seem more normal and less serious than "posting", which is the brandless term X and Bluesky (the companies, not the communities) both prefer. Posting is for forums and forums are for nerds. I harbor some hope that Elon will firesale off the trademark on "tweet" and someone can put it to good use
- pests 3y agoTweet is the only one that has made any sense IMO being the sound the bird mascot made, thematically with "short chirps", and birds "tweeting" at each other.