Anyone using this? I kinda wonder why people tolerate legacy social media when after 10 years the open source has caught up in terms of system quality

11/16/2024 11:11:16 AM

i signed up last year but haven't really used it. same thing for threads. and i'm pretty sure i have a mastodon account somewhere. but twitter remains my social media ecosystem of choice, although I grow weary of it as well. I'll probably retire from twitter at some point, but I have a particular vision for what should be next in social media, and until I'm finished building it (or somebody else gets there first) I'll keep tweeting.

[Edited on November 16, 2024 at 12:15 PM. Reason : and youtubing]

11/16/2024 12:01:32 PM

I was never current on any social media but I think I ignored Twitter or didn't understand it until it was saturated and ad driven.

11/16/2024 12:38:41 PM

I moved from Twitter to Bluesky a while back. Everyone worth a damn that I followed has stopped using Twitter anyway, most of them a long time back. I don't know how you still stand it over there unless you're a racist shitheel, a grifter, painfully stupid, or just genuinely enjoy constantly eating shit.

[Edited on November 16, 2024 at 5:36 PM. Reason : I guess you also might be addicted to fake clout.]

11/16/2024 5:36:31 PM

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"I don't know how you still stand it over there unless you're a racist shitheel, a grifter, painfully stupid, or just genuinely enjoy constantly eating shit."

I feel like twitter has been somewhat unfairly maligned when it comes to its particular dysfunctions. pretty much any social media platform of sufficient scale is going to have to deal with this kind of stuff (I mean, we all know the history of our favorite web relic). twitter is not unique in this regard at all. name a single social media platform where trolls don't sprout up and ruin things for everybody else. even bluesky is already dealing with the worst of what humanity has to offer. because of its relatively unique standing in the social media landscape over years, twitter has been a bigger target/attractor of terribleness to poison the public discourse, but for individual users, it's pretty straightforward to avoid. my feed (both the for you and the followings tab) provides me with a lot of value, imo. I try not to follow racist shitheels, grifters, stupids or shit-eaters in the first place, and I've unfollowed/muted a lot of people over the last few years especially and my feed is so much more pleasant as a result. sure, public figures, brands and other prominent accounts usually attract a lot of nonsense in the replies, but if you have a sufficiently developed immune response to reading bullshit on the internet (which you should at this point) you don't get baited by it, just point and laugh, and move on.

Quote :

"I guess you also might be addicted to fake clout."

honestly that's probably my least favorite thing about twitter these days. I get very little engagement most of the time (probably a personal deficiency more than anything i'm sure). It's easier to actually get into a conversation with people in YT comments than on twitter.


From a philosophical point of view, I do appreciate the effort to build bluesky on an open protocol. Years back I did some POCs with ActivityPub and found it exhausting and irritating so I'm a little hesitant to waste time on another overengineered federated architecture, but we'll see.

I considered using a script to migrate all my tweets to bluesky, but like I said, if twitter is on the way out, I'd rather just make the leap to talking with strangers on the internet over video chat rather than continuing to type messages one byte at a time like a fucking caveman (as I do precisely that in this very thread).

[Edited on November 16, 2024 at 6:29 PM. Reason : site4 ftw]

11/16/2024 6:23:42 PM

Approximately 3% of the population would meet the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. When you reach a user base of 30,000 or more, online communities tend to drift toward the dynamics of platforms like 4chan.

At a certain point, moderation becomes necessary. Moderators come with their own issues. First, they become autists, so focused on rules that they struggle to understand satire or sarcasm. This leads to humor, in-group jokes, and harmless content being flagged. The other type weaponizes moderation to exert control and power over others. The worst tendencies of your fifth grade hall monitor policing others for wrong think.

On one extreme, there's the chaos of 4chan, and on the other, the over-moderation of Twitter in 2021. Personally, I prefer to avoid social media platforms that fall into either extreme. 4chan should not feel refreshing after a visit to Twitter. And Twitter shouldn't be so gross the normies don't leave.

11/16/2024 8:22:14 PM

I've only really used Twitter regularly in the last year or so. It seems fragmented to me.

Like, the regular communities, be it about tech or sports or whatever, seem normal. But once you get into politics, it gets really weird really quick. Like the top replies to the President will often be wacko crap you couldn't say in public, and half of which I don't even get the references to.
Also, Twitter, besides the bots, has seemed really fake lately. I hate all these "reel posting accounts" that flood your recommended despite how many times you say no, and which flood up and spam in replies.

But if you curate some cool people to follow, Twitter is really awesome. The stuff you can find out about and learn about on the spot makes it awesome. Instagram is just less extreme on all fronts, since it is more casual and more of a content creation app, so there isn't much of a comparison.

Let me put this way, Twitter used best is much better than Instagram used best for interacting with the internet at-large. Instagram will just end up being slop, whereas Twitter can have some productive use to it.

I haven't used Threads at all, nor much else.

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"It's easier to actually get into a conversation with people in YT comments than on twitter."

Dude. YT Comments are the best. They're the most genuine, funny, and helpful. So many cool anecdotes, so much helpful information. I love it

11/18/2024 7:45:59 AM

Vivek was taking applications, i thought about applying and riding the wave

11/18/2024 7:55:37 PM

Applications for what? Secretary of Shitposting?

11/19/2024 6:55:50 PM

Idk just had a post like send your resumes or something. Probably russian agent trying to create dossiers about americans

11/19/2024 7:53:40 PM

12/23/2024 12:20:13 PM

YouTube is da best!

12/24/2024 2:02:46 PM

Higher number is worse right? Most psychotic to least?

1/3/2025 12:19:36 AM

Jumped ship to Bluesky

Fewer connections to oligarchs the better, even better to be community driven

They’re launching an Instagram replacement sometime too

1/16/2025 10:21:21 PM

您使用的是 Bluesky 而不是 Red Note？

1/16/2025 10:56:01 PM

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

Just ran through this, was actually surprised how much meta was tracking

1/17/2025 11:55:26 PM

Up to 300 followers on Bluesky in 2 weeks. I’d guess maybe 15% of them are fake which is about the same as threads (had 900 followers there after a year)

Very much more like Twitter

Not sure why threads seems to have a stodgier feel

1/24/2025 5:22:52 PM

To the top. Any tips on gaining followers? Are most of the news people on there like Jake Tapper and Dana Bash? Think I am going to join

4/19/2025 8:12:09 PM

The fake news, yes.

4/20/2025 3:38:56 AM

I like to pronounce bluesky like brewski

why? probably insanity

god we are really in shitty times for social media though

bluesky is just a bunch of liberal

twitter is a bunch of obvious idiots

facebook hits too close to home

instagram is too self-centered

4/20/2025 2:16:07 PM

TWW is perfect.

4/20/2025 4:54:50 PM

^ seriously, why brag about getting 300 gay blue sky followers. 300 followers here, or even active users would be god like.

Pump up your TWW numbers moron!

4/20/2025 5:27:39 PM

open the crazy code source

4/22/2025 12:07:40 AM

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"facebook hits too close to home is just a feed of a bunch of rage bait that I don't want and didn't choose to see"

FTFY

4/23/2025 10:46:09 AM

should we do a flyering campaign for TWW on campus?
paint the tunnel?

I'm no longer legally barred from being on campus so...

4/23/2025 4:16:30 PM

It's a nice idea, but to what end unless qntmfred sees fit to re-enable new user registration?

4/23/2025 4:47:38 PM

People can lurk and observe our cool and awesome conversations

4/23/2025 5:55:12 PM

Except in Premium Palace and Old School, where all the really cool and awesome conversations occur.

4/23/2025 6:37:07 PM

^i want to contribute to snewfs tree thread but can't

4/23/2025 8:50:39 PM

How do you even KNOW about that, n00b?!

4/24/2025 7:38:37 AM

Old School is visible to everyone

4/24/2025 9:23:19 AM

<--- n00b!

4/24/2025 12:56:30 PM

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

[Edited on June 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM. Reason : i have a little bit of experience with charts that look like this]

6/5/2025 11:38:18 AM

Thats a nice charting framework

6/5/2025 5:33:46 PM

marko, you should try to get NC State organizations to uniformly post on Bluesky like they do on Twitter

it can't be much effort to just duplicate posts or something right

the basketball team last posted there a year ago and the football team doesn't even have an account on there

1/19/2026 1:29:44 PM

Let it rot

[Edited on January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM. Reason : its purpose at this point is loonie containment zone just like truth social]

1/19/2026 1:59:34 PM

X sucks so bad, it's ideologically captured, so they can't focus on genuinely trying to improve everything. Tons of spam bot posts, all the replies are by verified bots and porn accounts. Every reply to any post by some official has extremists under it. What a disgusting space

[Edited on January 19, 2026 at 2:22 PM. Reason : I still use it every once in a while, but I don't see how it'll ever change]

1/19/2026 2:22:16 PM

Let it rot

[Edited on January 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM. Reason : we are overdue for a new era of software for humans to talk to each other on the internet]

1/19/2026 2:35:16 PM

I would be open to it if it wasn't such a partisan hangout. The only people that regularly trumpet bluesky are uber liberals

1/19/2026 7:49:37 PM

"Loonie containment zone," really? That's corny. Corny opinion. Stinky.

1/20/2026 8:12:33 AM

^^ it's where all the smart people are

if your beliefs on TWW mirror the things you actually believe, youre not going to have any problems on bluesky.

Im part of the most hated demographic there as an pro-ai person and i literally have not gotten hate in several weeks about it.

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 11:30 AM. Reason : ]

1/21/2026 11:23:08 AM

Quote :

" Im part of the most hated demographic there as an pro-ai person"

proving my point

1/21/2026 11:39:55 AM

I follow Andrej Karpathy and a bunch of other people on X. Where are the smart tech people on bluesky? (I get you just said it's anti ai). Do you have examples of a smart take that has come out of blue sky that is not just whatever slop you'd see on MSNBC? Like one that puts what is going on in context of a book or set of philosophies you'd find in the western canon?

1/21/2026 11:44:50 AM

Bluesky has lists

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:7rsiexy72plg2yinrulidc2a/lists/3lgf4jcp3ic2g

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jfhpnnst6flqway4eaeqzj2a/feed/for-science

Single:noise ratio is much higher on Bluesky since people aren’t trying to game it (yet). 90% of the ai posts on Twitter are LinkedIn style slop.

For long form content people link out to their blogs:
https://bsky.app/profile/timkellogg.me/post/3mcvo443zbs2d



[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 12:15 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2026 12:05:26 PM

^^^
One site lets people who hate ai freely express their opinion, another site lets Nazis freely express themselves and even coddles them, and financially benefits the biggest purveyor of hate globally. It’s an easy choice to me. I can find karpathy’s insights reposted other places, might just have to wait a whole 30 minutes.

1/21/2026 12:12:45 PM

proving my point

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 12:20 PM. Reason : full of sound and fury, signifying nothing]

1/21/2026 12:20:09 PM

Those are pretty objective observations. No fury. I’m a low fury person in general

It’s interesting you’re reading fury into that though…

[Edited on January 21, 2026 at 1:09 PM. Reason : ]

1/21/2026 1:08:56 PM

not fury as in rage

1/21/2026 1:15:20 PM

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/11/03/threads-passes-x-in-key-monthly-metric-for-first-time-in-zuckerberg-vs-musk-battle/

I have been thinking about getting back on threads as X dies a slow death. Zuck is a goober but at least he’s not a Nazi like Elon (at least openly)

1/21/2026 4:47:01 PM