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I think the reason it works that way is because they want strong guarantees for the future portability of your skeets. It's sort of a correction for Mastodon's
by mayneack 2y ago
I think the reason it works that way is because they want strong guarantees for the future portability of your skeets. It's sort of a correction for Mastodon's reliance on server admins' goodwill.
- Forgeties79 2y ago>skeets I’m cackling over here. How have I never heard this when people talk about blue sky?
- OrsonSmelles 2y agoTo the windoooooooooooooooooooow....
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoSurely this is what he was talking about. Lil John was decades ahead of his time.
- cookiemonsieur 2y agoA Lil Jon reference on a HN thread about Bluesky was most definitely not on my 2025 bingo card. But I'll take it.
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- nextts 2y agoTalking of "Jon" and "Skeet", there is a fairly well known programmer called Jon Skeet. If you are a C# developer good chance he has answered you stack overflow question!
- miroljub 2y agoIf you are a bit older, you'd remember the same guy fighting for Java in bloody flame wars against C and C++ on Usenet. When I first saw him as a C# devotee on Stack Overflow, I was surprised it's the same guy.
- Kye 2y agoSome people got the idea it has something to do with some song because (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary said so when the actual meaning is "sky tweet."
- Retr0id 2y agohah, good one
- justinpombrio 2y ago> (not an actual dictionary) Urban Dictionary <troll> The definition of dictionary is just "Words about words" (source: Urban Dictionary), so I'd say that Urban Dictionary qualifies. </troll>
- bobsmooth 2y agoUD has been quoted in court cases, it's absolutely a dictionary.
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- account42 2y agoUD documents existing connotations of words and expressions. That you don't think it's an actual dictionary doesn't change the fact that those connotations exist. "sky tweet" is also a stupid name since a tweet is already the name for a post on a very specific platform.
- delecti 2y agoI'm not sure I get why "sky tweet" is a stupid name. "Tweet" was a pretty arbitrarily chosen name for a post on Twitter, but now that "tweet" is a pretty established word, it seems reasonable to use a portmanteau based on that word for a platform based on that platform. Though in practice I think "skeet" was a bit of a fad to be provocative, and most people just call them tweets, even on bluesky.
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- mayneack 2y agoPeople certainly talk about this _on_ bluesky. No idea how much it's escaped outside.
- wojciii 2y agoI use bluesky all the time and have yet to use the term "skeet". I don't think it's important. What is important is using a sane environment. X is completely crazy.
- platz 2y agocan we just come up with one common term to to refer to all of my these between sites
- londons_explore 2y agoMake a community on X and only let sane people in.
- Forgeties79 2y agoOh I think it’s very important and it’s all we should talk about right now
- AtomBalm 2y agoTo the window, to the wall! To my social media feed I crawl!
- tekknik 2y agodoes anybody in this thread actually know what skeet means? i’m laughing as well at the idea of a bunch of people thinking they’re getting back at twitter by skeeting on the internet.