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As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One th

As someone who never used Twitter, I made a Bluesy account and it was okay. I learned that I have no idea how to engage with that style of social media. One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that.

matsemann 2y ago
I joined twitter like 3 years ago, so also quite late to this type of game. Compared to forums, hn, reddit etc it's quite difficult to get your voice heard in the beginning. Anything you post is just shown to no one when you have no followers. Takes some time interacting with others and hope they follow or repost to get some traction.
charles_f 2y ago
Lol, I got curious about nostr, and it's the same thing, with an extra layer of "crypto currency will save the world"
- bentcorner 2y ago
  Same - it was actually technically impressive how fast I got crypto spam upon joining nostr.
skywhopper 2y ago
People talk about what’s on their minds. Most of the users just moved in the past week or two so that’s the hot topic. But it’ll change soon enough.
- inquirerGeneral 2y ago
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- sumeno 2y ago
  This, it happens for a while after every big exodus moment and chills out after.
llm_trw 2y ago
They have, the front page is all about how terrible Trump is right now.
- delecti 2y ago
  What is "the front page"? Scrolling through the first couple dozen posts on my following feed, I see a selfies, science educators, artists, makers, a couple naked people, a complaint about days getting shorter, and a few people talking about health conditions they've gotten under control. If you don't want to see people talking about Trump, follow people who don't talk about Trump. Or add "trump" to your list of muted words. What you see is up to you. If you don't like what you see, there are a ton of levers in your control.
  - llm_trw 2y ago
    Open https://bsky.app/ https://bsky.app/ in incognito mode and you get to see the front page. Currently the top post on the latest refresh is: >I'm honestly surprised he hasn't started selling stool samples. His followers have been buying his BS for years, so it seems like a natural next step... https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb3zm5gvkc27 https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb... This is not a network I want to join if this is the popular content. We've been told to curate our own garden for reddit, twitter, mastodon, etc. It never works because people who see that and like it join by the millions and those who don't don't.
    - delecti 2y ago
      You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds
      - llm_trw 2y ago
        That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.
datahack 2y ago
Blue Sky feels like a cocktail party where half the guests are knitting sweaters for their cats, the other half are debating how to save democracy, and I’m just standing there wondering how I got invited. It’s like scrolling through a group chat where everyone forgot the topic but kept texting anyway. Honestly, it’s impressive how they’ve managed to create a platform that feels simultaneously too niche and too random. Idk, I spent a few hours over a few days trying to find something cool about it, and couldn’t.
- llm_trw 2y ago
  The astro pictures are neat. Everything else ... less so.
lz400 2y ago
I hope so too. I had to leave threads because my wall was 90% people talking and complaining about Twitter and Musk and memes about the same stuff. Dude, I was here _precisely_ to avoid this, but it's even worse!
hombre_fatal 2y ago
Yeah, I followed a bunch of game dev "starter pack" account collections and 90% of it was screenshots of tweets from Elon. That's still 80% of Mastodon's content so I don't expect much from Bluesky.
andrybak 2y ago
> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that. Judiciously using the muting features is required to have a good time in social media. Add "Twitter" to muted words to move past that on your own.
afavour 2y ago
> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter That was a huge turnoff with Mastodon for me. Seemed almost everyone was just saying “wow, isnt it so much better here than on Twitter?” over and over and having everyone agree. By comparison Bluesky isn’t so bad, at least right now anyway.

matsemann 2y ago

I joined twitter like 3 years ago, so also quite late to this type of game. Compared to forums, hn, reddit etc it's quite difficult to get your voice heard in the beginning. Anything you post is just shown to no one when you have no followers. Takes some time interacting with others and hope they follow or repost to get some traction.

charles_f 2y ago

Lol, I got curious about nostr, and it's the same thing, with an extra layer of "crypto currency will save the world"

bentcorner 2y ago
Same - it was actually technically impressive how fast I got crypto spam upon joining nostr.

skywhopper 2y ago

People talk about what’s on their minds. Most of the users just moved in the past week or two so that’s the hot topic. But it’ll change soon enough.

inquirerGeneral 2y ago
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sumeno 2y ago
This, it happens for a while after every big exodus moment and chills out after.

llm_trw 2y ago

They have, the front page is all about how terrible Trump is right now.

delecti 2y ago
What is "the front page"? Scrolling through the first couple dozen posts on my following feed, I see a selfies, science educators, artists, makers, a couple naked people, a complaint about days getting shorter, and a few people talking about health conditions they've gotten under control. If you don't want to see people talking about Trump, follow people who don't talk about Trump. Or add "trump" to your list of muted words. What you see is up to you. If you don't like what you see, there are a ton of levers in your control.
- llm_trw 2y ago
  Open https://bsky.app/ https://bsky.app/ in incognito mode and you get to see the front page. Currently the top post on the latest refresh is: >I'm honestly surprised he hasn't started selling stool samples. His followers have been buying his BS for years, so it seems like a natural next step... https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb3zm5gvkc27 https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lb... This is not a network I want to join if this is the popular content. We've been told to curate our own garden for reddit, twitter, mastodon, etc. It never works because people who see that and like it join by the millions and those who don't don't.
  - delecti 2y ago
    You can quite literally write your own algorithm for Bluesky. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds
    - llm_trw 2y ago
      That's nice. It doesn't change the fact the default feed is amplifying the same posts that made twitter a toxic wasteland.

datahack 2y ago

Blue Sky feels like a cocktail party where half the guests are knitting sweaters for their cats, the other half are debating how to save democracy, and I’m just standing there wondering how I got invited. It’s like scrolling through a group chat where everyone forgot the topic but kept texting anyway. Honestly, it’s impressive how they’ve managed to create a platform that feels simultaneously too niche and too random. Idk, I spent a few hours over a few days trying to find something cool about it, and couldn’t.

llm_trw 2y ago
The astro pictures are neat. Everything else ... less so.

lz400 2y ago

I hope so too. I had to leave threads because my wall was 90% people talking and complaining about Twitter and Musk and memes about the same stuff. Dude, I was here _precisely_ to avoid this, but it's even worse!

hombre_fatal 2y ago

Yeah, I followed a bunch of game dev "starter pack" account collections and 90% of it was screenshots of tweets from Elon. That's still 80% of Mastodon's content so I don't expect much from Bluesky.

andrybak 2y ago

> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter. I hope they can move past that. Judiciously using the muting features is required to have a good time in social media. Add "Twitter" to muted words to move past that on your own.

afavour 2y ago

> One thing that put me off is how so much of what I saw was just talking about Bluesky vs Twitter That was a huge turnoff with Mastodon for me. Seemed almost everyone was just saying “wow, isnt it so much better here than on Twitter?” over and over and having everyone agree. By comparison Bluesky isn’t so bad, at least right now anyway.