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If you follow live sports then Twitter is still unparalleled because people (and broadcasters too) upload highlights in near real time. Every event, goal, home

by haunter 8mo ago

If you follow live sports then Twitter is still unparalleled because people (and broadcasters too) upload highlights in near real time. Every event, goal, home run, crash etc.

qingcharles 8mo ago
There's an absolute ton of niches which are completely anchored to Twitter. It's hard to get a whole raft of people to move at once :(
small_model 8mo ago
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- archagon 8mo ago
  Why would I use a social network run by someone with opinions straight from the pages of Stormfront? I don't need white supremacy mixed in with my light recreational reading, thanks.
  - small_model 8mo ago
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    - archagon 8mo ago
      If you truly believe "those days" are over, you're in for a depressing few decades as the world moves on without you. Most reasonable people — even white people like myself — are disgusted by the sort of rhetoric that Musk retweets and endorses on a daily basis[1]. It is, without any exaggeration, literal Stormfront shit as I remember from a decade ago. We will fight this putrid garbage and we will win. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...
      - small_model 8mo ago
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- jeromegv 8mo ago
  Elon Mush has introduced political biais in the algo, not all opinions are worth the same when you have a white suprematicst at the reign.
  - reagan83 8mo ago
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    - mjmsmith 8mo ago
      Why does the very existence of bluesky make so many people angry? You're free to stay at the Nazi bar if that's where you're comfortable.
  - tryrrr 8mo ago
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- dutchCourage 8mo ago
  Musk is openly and heavy handedly messing with the recommendation algorithm to fit whatever views he wants to push. On top of that, he started paying people for their viral tweets, which promotes content farms and rage bait. It is not a place that is trying to showcase diverse opinions in an unbiased way.
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Aboutplants 8mo ago
This is massively true and was the last thing that I had to overcome when dropping Twitter. Certain sports have better engagement than others but it is pretty staggering the difference. If BlueSky could figure that out then they would have a legitimate shot at substantial success
- haunter 8mo ago
  >If BlueSky could figure that out It's a "people problem" not a technical one. For example if you are following anything from Asia, or just generally from Japan and Korea you will most likely see it on Twitter, there was never a big exodus of users there. Bsky has almost 0 engagement. Just watching WBC this week and I wanted to see korean highlights of their games. They are all over on Twitter, nothing on Bsky.
ChicagoDave 8mo ago
They are aware: https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDqRK9D8osOaeyyESJ7cPsX7 https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDqRK9D8osOaeyyESJ7cPsX... Job opening to build sports relationships.
rorylawless 8mo ago
For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.
nomilk 8mo ago
Are there tools that let users post to both simultaneously? (e.g. similar to how streamers can simultaneously stream to Twitch/YT/X easily)
tlogan 8mo ago
True, but the BlueSky audience is not really into following professional sports. I believe there was statistics (or just rumor) showing that conservative-leaning people are about 50% more likely to follow professional sports than liberal-leaning people. Sadly, I cannot find the source, but it might be so obvious that nobody bothered to run a proper poll. Or this is just what everybody believes so everybody goes with it.
OhioMan2943 8mo ago
A lot of bluesky users don't really go outside ;^)

by haunter 8mo ago

If you follow live sports then Twitter is still unparalleled because people (and broadcasters too) upload highlights in near real time. Every event, goal, home run, crash etc.

qingcharles 8mo ago

There's an absolute ton of niches which are completely anchored to Twitter. It's hard to get a whole raft of people to move at once :(

small_model 8mo ago

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archagon 8mo ago
Why would I use a social network run by someone with opinions straight from the pages of Stormfront? I don't need white supremacy mixed in with my light recreational reading, thanks.
- small_model 8mo ago
  [flagged]
  - archagon 8mo ago
    If you truly believe "those days" are over, you're in for a depressing few decades as the world moves on without you. Most reasonable people — even white people like myself — are disgusted by the sort of rhetoric that Musk retweets and endorses on a daily basis[1]. It is, without any exaggeration, literal Stormfront shit as I remember from a decade ago. We will fight this putrid garbage and we will win. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk...
    - small_model 8mo ago
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jeromegv 8mo ago
Elon Mush has introduced political biais in the algo, not all opinions are worth the same when you have a white suprematicst at the reign.
- reagan83 8mo ago
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  - mjmsmith 8mo ago
    Why does the very existence of bluesky make so many people angry? You're free to stay at the Nazi bar if that's where you're comfortable.
- tryrrr 8mo ago
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dutchCourage 8mo ago
Musk is openly and heavy handedly messing with the recommendation algorithm to fit whatever views he wants to push. On top of that, he started paying people for their viral tweets, which promotes content farms and rage bait. It is not a place that is trying to showcase diverse opinions in an unbiased way.
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Aboutplants 8mo ago

This is massively true and was the last thing that I had to overcome when dropping Twitter. Certain sports have better engagement than others but it is pretty staggering the difference. If BlueSky could figure that out then they would have a legitimate shot at substantial success

haunter 8mo ago
>If BlueSky could figure that out It's a "people problem" not a technical one. For example if you are following anything from Asia, or just generally from Japan and Korea you will most likely see it on Twitter, there was never a big exodus of users there. Bsky has almost 0 engagement. Just watching WBC this week and I wanted to see korean highlights of their games. They are all over on Twitter, nothing on Bsky.

ChicagoDave 8mo ago

They are aware: https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDqRK9D8osOaeyyESJ7cPsX7 https://jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9icG9zdDqRK9D8osOaeyyESJ7cPsX... Job opening to build sports relationships.

rorylawless 8mo ago

For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.

nomilk 8mo ago

Are there tools that let users post to both simultaneously? (e.g. similar to how streamers can simultaneously stream to Twitch/YT/X easily)

tlogan 8mo ago

True, but the BlueSky audience is not really into following professional sports. I believe there was statistics (or just rumor) showing that conservative-leaning people are about 50% more likely to follow professional sports than liberal-leaning people. Sadly, I cannot find the source, but it might be so obvious that nobody bothered to run a proper poll. Or this is just what everybody believes so everybody goes with it.

OhioMan2943 8mo ago

A lot of bluesky users don't really go outside ;^)