A blank page can be daunting. Bubbling with excitement to see how all of our scribbles mingle and build our own little masterpieces. Also, block and report bad behavior. No tolerance for NASTY trolls
The best thing about being an adult is that there are no rules 🤠 you can do whatever you want 😛 what are they gonna do? 😳 Think you're weird?🙀 call ur mom on you?😰 That's fine! 💩There's no consequences! 😈Use an emoji or god forbid a gif if you feel like it 👻 you have nothing to lose but your chains
Thanks for the welcome. Hopefully, I'll meet some new friends here as I just got into TikTok a few months ago and didn't really have the time to grow! Tumblr was my last really active place, and that was around 2012! Hi, any Lgbtqia+ folks and alternatives!
Thought to share that I’ve made a custom Skylight feed here on Bluesky.
If interested, please “like” the feed (hit the ❤️ on the feed home page) and enjoy being kept up to date on Skylight developments and the community of users.
Thank you for the welcome. I’ve unfortunately encountered a few users a bit more hostile to #tiktokrefugees. Reading the replies remind me of the unique humor, sincere discourse, and raw emotion that glittered the app. 🥲
Same! Being told I don't belong, am not welcome, and seeing folks direct others on how to block anything related to TT. Super great, especially since bluesky pushed hard to get pur attention while TT was still active, but the culture here is... not great, and we are very obviously not wanted
Hopefully that’s only a subsection of the users. It’s disheartening to discover that swaths of people hold contempt for a bias they don’t care to examine. But there are still others, like the account at the top of this thread, who are open.
Tt refugee! 💃 I’m on Red too 🫶 Blue is a little dry. There are unfortunately assholes. Not as many as on X or Meta but…it’s an older crowd. 😅 the content is a bit dry yet but I’m hoping it will get better w more ppl coming over.
As someone who is part of the "older" (almost 40 lol) crowd, I am being very abruptly reminded of why I don't like people. TT allowed me to connect with folks and feel welcome, but every time I turn around here there's another shitty take mocking us which is wild since this is just a Twitter dupe...
I’m sorry 🙈 I meant no offense! But I agree. This was an attack on our communication with each other, our community. These spaces feel so different. I don’t understand the mocking except they weren’t a part of it. We lived in a space and unless you were in it, you can’t appreciate what we had. 😭
No offense taken 💗 I'm surprised that folks here are unsympathetic given the fact that many of the hateful folks are X refugees 🤣 TT made it hard to stay isolated unless that's what you curated your algorithm to do. Apparently explaining that to someone makes me garbage 😭 I'll figure it out, though
A lot fewer than X though. I manually block and don't have to do more than 2 or 3 a day (not counting the pornbots and accounts trawling for followbacks).
Ok, this is the third time in a minute I’ve seen pornbots mentioned… TF is that?! 😅 Now I’m just waiting for Beetlejuice like-adds to pop up over my feed 🤣
They are accounts that have sexy women avatars, perhaps one or two posts, and follow a huge number of people, of which statistically a few will follow, DM, and then give up their credit card details 😅🤗
I just read stuff…followed people…followed people they followed…searched famous people ….searched weird things I might like like space, cat and dog pictures…and there are great blocking features…to block the sex bots, only fans, give me money in Africa …etc…you can steal other peoples block lists
bro, i'm not saying i'm ungrateful, but Redbook treated me with a complimentary continental breakfast and 24hr gym preferences. i'd like to see your manager.
Omg it is so true. I was here before as a compliment. This is a great news source but TikTok was like hanging with your besties with surprise guests popping in. Thank God I have bluesky so I can rant.
I have at least found pictures of cats, not quite as good as videos of cats, but better than staring at the “yo they banned this app” message” on TikTok haha
i’ve never been so out of the loop in my life- where do i find out how everyone is reacting to tiktok being banned??? i knooow some people are feeling withdrawal- me and my emotions feel very alone
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Ove already been told I'm not welcome unless I'm willing to abide by very specific social rules on here, and was then redistributed for mockery for havung feelings and explaining how TT worked for me and how i used it 🤣 great start on here
Many people on here have not deconstructed anything yet. I'm blocking many daily because even though they are democrats they are not progressive, and their thinking is just as rigid as magas.
I didn't post at all on TikTok, but I scrolled a lot. Today was surprisingly sad. Creators I forgot were fixtures of my FYP on the platform saying goodbye.
Exactly. I did NOT sign up to be an emotional wreck today, but I saw so many people I got through some pretty rough times with saying goodbye. And I thought we had a few more hours. I came back from the gym, and it was gone.
Yeah it's surprising it's down. The ban was suspended. It's likely it will be right back up on Monday as it appears this is a voluntary ban to apply some pressure.
All so Trump can be a hero? No thanks. TikTok is gone. There may be others like it but it will never be the same. I learned so much and deconstructed so much of our propaganda that nothing will be the same. It radicalized a lot of us.
I posted a video today. In fact it previously was posted on TikTok!!! ( the person on the skylight site told us to. Heck I’m not even sure what site is for what anymore!!! ) but you can post videos. 😎🌵😆
Even when you go from one platform to another people still find a way to start a "racial" war. "Eww, is this one from tiktok? STOP BRINGING YOUR TIKTOK CULTURE HERE"
Did you see how they fucked up TikTok? They literally turned it from our safe place into a 🍊 ass kisser place. They banned me because I said I felt like TikTok was too different and it seemed like they were trying to pain 🍊 as the hero. Poof I’m not allowed to use it anymore
Then you watch their content, and they'll watch yours. Although there's a lot of text here, hopefully, people will start posting videos, and we'll talk to each other like we're doing right now.
I think Trump forced TikTok to go dark so that on Monday he can be the hero. The message posted on the TikTok app that mentions Trump and everything TikTok ceo is saying is giving Supreme Leader vibes. How great and wonder Trump is. It’s disgusting!🤢
Yes, it was sad to read that, because now I don’t want to go back to TikTok as I know Trump will be involved. I suspect more right wing videos and comments will pop up.
I was saying exactly this! He wants to appeal more to younger voters and this is the perfect excuse to be the hero. I can already hear him boasting, pass me the sick bucket.
Yep not like TikTok at all, but what are my other choices 🤷🏼♀️ Not giving Meta or YT my content or my activity right now. As a mental health creator I went Live multiple times per week & got pretty close w/ my small yet active community of almost 7k. They are gone now. We're all grieving 😔
Redbook is okay, but I’m not overly interested in it, the language and cultural differences are things to workout, and I get it, China invested in their nation and it shows, good for them
Like wtf I joined here and I kept getting posts about insects, birds, and one random celebrity repeatedly. I think I like the birds now, goddamn propoganda brainwashing me.
BlueSky has “starter lists” where you follow a whole bunch of people with your interests at once, and “custom feeds” that are centered around particular interests.
I found my fav creators and used their following pages to help me recreate my algorithm. It’s a process, but it’s MUCH faster than going through the “find people to follow” option
I think the thing main thing about TikTok that general society won't know/remember is how frighteningly fast it could narrow down who you are.
The first time I saw, "have you been meaning to change positions for half an hour? how many drinks are on your desk right now?" I almost threw my phone.
If you scrolled on the For You page for a bit and followed people who interested you, it would start showing you more and more things that might. If something really bothered you, you could flag it not interested and you’d get less of that.
😂 Tik Tok called out my unmedicated ADHD like 10 minutes in. Yes I know, but doctors don’t like prescribing the good drugs to fix it but wow that was fast.
I remember the two previous versions of that too, mostly the guy who’d cheerfully yell “stop scrolling!” At you as though that wasn’t going to make us want to scroll twice as hard at 3am
Sometimes that what we need. TikTok had gotten so bad that left leaning people couldn’t post anything without it being taken down. They took down my vomit emoji!!!
They did have some pretty heinous "enforcement" policies. I once reported a virulent antisemitic comment, and they went ✅️ this comment was fine. But "ew" was unacceptable 🙄
Social media is all about complaining in one dedicated place how something must be better somewhere else, and the dedicated place to somewhere else ratio is constantly changing
As a TikTok Refugee, can anyone give us a quick run down :) what are starter packs? How do we interact with them? Seems like hashtags aren’t a thing? :) helpful for any info on the culture that anyone may be able to provide :)
"Starter packs" are collections of suggested accounts to follow created an individual user. For example, if you find a user that you know and like, and they post a starter pack, that provides you a quick selection of likely-aligned other accounts to follow. BIG caveat - vetting of accounts varies.
OP was correct that this place is nothing like TT - imo for the worse in terms of curiosity or work towards collective liberation. Pretty wonky and centrist "progressives."
Practically, this is very similar to pre-Elon Twitter. Tight character counts, you control follows. Better blocking features.
It uses feeds to do that. So you comment a 📌 on a post you want to save, then there is a feed (linked below) that will show you all posts where you commented a 📌
Can anyone recommend a good page to follow for unbiased, uncensored news (US and world news)? TT really was a source of information for me and losing that feels like I'm missing a limb.
CBC, ABC Australia, PBS/NPR, RNZ, BBC, YLE (basically the public broadcasters are really good because they don't make any money by being extremist or unbalanced.
I’ve had it for a few yrs and it was developed by a woman who is a former NASA engineer (If I remember correctly). I love how it shows you the most center news and then shows you left bias and right bias reporting. Fascinating.
It's become more obvious how the media outlets are controlled by the government. They were caught with their guard down when we learned what was really happening to the Palestinians. They always said the mid-east is complicated, but now we know it was Isrealy Apartheid causing the problems. #Tiktok
The thing people are the most upset about is the removal of a place for real firsthand updates without propaganda and a way to politically organize with peers, and this place still fulfills that hopefully.
That’s awesome! Thank you so much! Followed back :) I’m still learning the app obviously— is there a way I can post my newbie thoughts on LOTR as I go without it being spoilers? On Instagram I feel like I could say “swipe for thoughts on ch 2” etc haha. :)
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But I digress.
How it must hurt to overnight lose your circle. I'm sorry.
Welcome to Bluesky.💙
If interested, please “like” the feed (hit the ❤️ on the feed home page) and enjoy being kept up to date on Skylight developments and the community of users.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gbxs4wgxc4xbb5wmurv3rskw/feed/aaahqiu44quei
#Bluesky #Skylight
Feeds are great for those goals.
Cheers, Tom.
Here with dictation tools, you don’t even need to know how to type to be an asshole.
So assholes abound, but you can treat them as a fart in the wind. Block and move on.
I need friends on here! I refuse to use Facebook, insta, or X 😭
I'm sad about Tiktok but Twitter was my favorite site. I'm done with X
And a lot of blurry political screenshots. Very blurry
Not everyone is like that here. Block the negative energy people.
...Time to finally finish my thesis, I guess.
The first time I saw, "have you been meaning to change positions for half an hour? how many drinks are on your desk right now?" I almost threw my phone.
Practically, this is very similar to pre-Elon Twitter. Tight character counts, you control follows. Better blocking features.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q6gjnaw2blty4crticxkmujt/feed/my-pins
Follow, like, share, create.
We can help Bluesky build a community while we wait out the ban.
#tiktokrefugee
Back in the day, I found the Christian Science Monitor and Al Jazeera to have better global perspectives than legacy US media.
I would not recommend Russian or Chinese state-owned broadcasters though.
And don't worry about the dancing; we are an English-speaking suburb of Rio de Janeiro
Not watching inauguration!