I don't know. I genuinely don't feel like I'm getting all that much out of Bluesky. I try to follow people I find interesting after searching for topics I care about, but my feed still just isn't super active. Maybe that's ultimately a good thing. Threads has some element of fun to it still.
“Bluesky… aspires to be a better Twitter… Mastodon was created by and for people who wanted something different from Twitter.” I think this is backward, though. Or maybe “beyond Twitter” might be a better description of Bsky. 1/2
There’s a ton of cool stuff being built on their AT Protocol… I've been testing an open Slack/Discord clone, and am personally investigating the possibility of an RSS-social bridge akin to the old Google Reader. ATProto has “the juice”
And yet we still need to persuade Ben Thompson to jump ship :) - Threads seems to be the biggest challenge in general (surprising as it is to many of us here that Meta could have any appeal)
Let me add a plug for http://bluenotify.app — until I discovered it, Bluesky was unusable for me (I want to be notified of people I’m interested in, rather than have to poll manually like a Neanderthal). Now it’s finally becoming a viable Twitter replacement.
Twitter will be renamed to REDsky. To make it more easy for the confused people to go to. Choosing their own bubble to live in, nicely color coded like America does already with elections :)
While I haven't gone so far as to delete my accounts on other platforms, Bluesky is the only one I am using these days. It's a breath of fresh air for me.
New to Bluesky, thanks in part to you. Any recommendations for someone who has never used Twitter and its ilk before? How do I find people that have interesting thoughts on topics?
You can go to someone’s « Following » tab and check out who they follow... and follow the people you are interested in following (the use of all those follow/following words is intentional;)
And since you are already here, you can check Gruber's « 498 Following » tab by clicking on it
I like the Linux of socials best, but I have no allusions regarding Mastodon gaining traction or breaking out or being anything other than a niche social, same for Bluesky.
Don't overlook how much it pisses people off that Threads continues to NOT offer a Following feed by default. I can't tell you how much less use they get for that single feature alone. Bluesky is so much better for this.
It wasn't clear to me at first that Bluesky would turn out better than Threads. Bluesky seemed like an echo chamber & I wasn't interested in a social network I had to "manage" by modifying my own algo. Threads seemed fun because I'd get traction where I normally didn't but now it's full of bad algo.
Bluesky is no question taking the wind out of its sails, but Threads is still an easier place for nobodies like me to get views/likes/shares on posts and replies because of the algorithm. Bluesky is the better place to build followers if you’re already well-known or famous.
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And I realize, I’m not really interested in what’s the latest thing they’re selling — whether products or ideas or lifestyles.
It’s more like Livejournal and Blobspot blogs.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/bluesky_being_right_points
And since you are already here, you can check Gruber's « 498 Following » tab by clicking on it
30M Bluesky
300M Threads
I like the Linux of socials best, but I have no allusions regarding Mastodon gaining traction or breaking out or being anything other than a niche social, same for Bluesky.
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