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I've had an account for a few months now, it always felt very dead, but something feels like it's shifted.

matsemann 2y ago
My niche moved there summer of 2023, took some time to get going, some cross posting for a while etc, but by the end of the year it was almost exclusively on bsky. But have noticed the uptick, gained like 400 followers the last week. But it's a bit weird, as it's a Norwegian community, no relation to American politics. I guess it also can feel dead because it doesn't have a viral algorithmic feed like Twitter. But for me that's not an issue, ad even on Twitter I followed few enough people that I always used the chronological view. But I do like the custom feeds of bsky. Like a search/hashtag on steroids, making it easy to discover others discussing the same theme I'm there for.
pfisherman 2y ago
Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on twitter. Biosci twitter -> BioSky?
minimaxir 2y ago
Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay. The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.
- geoka9 2y ago
  Or possibly, once the event was over, the users in question had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?
- ideashower 2y ago
  This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...
  - geoka9 2y ago
    In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/ https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
  - ericjmorey 2y ago
    All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.
Dalewyn 2y ago
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My niche moved there summer of 2023, took some time to get going, some cross posting for a while etc, but by the end of the year it was almost exclusively on bsky. But have noticed the uptick, gained like 400 followers the last week. But it's a bit weird, as it's a Norwegian community, no relation to American politics. I guess it also can feel dead because it doesn't have a viral algorithmic feed like Twitter. But for me that's not an issue, ad even on Twitter I followed few enough people that I always used the chronological view. But I do like the custom feeds of bsky. Like a search/hashtag on steroids, making it easy to discover others discussing the same theme I'm there for.

pfisherman 2y ago

Agreed. I was on twitter to discover, share, discuss articles and talks in my field of research. A couple months ago I had trouble finding good accounts and content; but now I am starting to find some of the PIs I was following over on twitter. Biosci twitter -> BioSky?

minimaxir 2y ago

Because there was a certain geopolitical event about two weeks ago that was a primary reason many still used Twitter/X and now that said event is over (and whose outcome will likely cause Twitter/X to further degrade) there is no reason to stay. The exodus is not happening randomly or in a vacuum.

geoka9 2y ago
Or possibly, once the event was over, the users in question had the idea that Twitter/X affected the outcome in the way they didn't like and they decided to boycott Twitter/X?
ideashower 2y ago
This plus the fact that starting Nov 15 tweets become by default training material for their language models: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-y...
- geoka9 2y ago
  In view of this news, the story becomes even funnier: https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spreader/ https://fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-musk-misinformation-spre...
- ericjmorey 2y ago
  All posts on bsky are public and subject to use for training machine learning models. So a lot of people either don't care or are going to be very disappointed.

Dalewyn 2y ago

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