My follower count has roughly doubled since the election. I assume most if not all are new to BlueSky and I’m very glad you have moved over. I am curious about one thing though and while I feel it will sound snarky I don’t know how else to ask it: what finally made you decide to move over? - ThreadSky

67sound.bsky.social • 191 days ago

My follower count has roughly doubled since the election. I assume most if not all are new to BlueSky and I’m very glad you have moved over. I am curious about one thing though and while I feel it will sound snarky I don’t know how else to ask it: what finally made you decide to move over?

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derekleiman.bsky.social•191 days ago

I've been here for a while, waiting for more people to join. I'm hoping we are getting to that point where I don't need to check on the other place to see what I am missing.

meroutloud.bsky.social•191 days ago

I’m not new. I made an account well over a year ago and then. Forgot about it. I deleted Twitter months ago. But I’ve missed the camaraderie of suffering during leafs games so I’ve decided to be more active here.

27leafs.bsky.social•191 days ago

Was trying to move over for a year.

Bluesky wasn't really open yet, liked Threads at first but it's benefit and demise is the Instagram connection.

Kept falling back into Twitter when big things would happen.

Fully committed here a couple months or so ago. Nice to see real activity now!

everydan.bsky.social•191 days ago

Seems like theres a critical mass now, finally ppl to talk to that are active enough

humblerodentia.bsky.social•191 days ago

It's pull marketing rather than push. Droves of important accounts stopped posting on Twitter, exposing more of the ugly side of the site. It was easier to ignore when one or two accounts at a time would disappear or stop posting.

humblerodentia.bsky.social•191 days ago

The big thing that got me over here more than Twitter (or instagram, which I was using a lot more) was finding my first 'people who talk about sports' starter pack. Even if my Devils fan community hadn't migrated over, this type of microblogging works best for live events.

67sound.bsky.social•191 days ago

I mean, Twitter has been a Nazi bar for years, and openly so for months. Was it just the abrupt shock of the election result?

bennett2gareth.bsky.social•191 days ago

I feel like there was a massive influx of Nazi shit just after the election. Almost as if the algorithm started pushing it

nouseforajames.bsky.social•190 days ago

For a while BSky was like a handful of micro-cliques, and my Twitter feed was painstakingly, ruthlessly built over years, way more blocks than follows, but the final few days leading up to the election it was non-stop unblockable christofascist ads. They finally made it unusable.

laydownthelaw.bsky.social•191 days ago

I was on Bluesky before, but it was an empty wasteland sports-wise. It finally got critical mass to get convos going regularly, so there it is.

legobatman.bsky.social•191 days ago

As others have noted, it's been a balance between bsky and the bad place for about a year, but the election result was a watershed moment that moved many more in the sporting world over. I've only returned there to unfollow all of the folks I'm following here.

adamzherman.bsky.social•191 days ago

I think a lot of people were holding out hope that, if Kamala won, Elon would give up and sell it.

stefanmarkus.bsky.social•191 days ago

I realised how uninterested I was in seeing the *sort* of political posts that were getting amplified on Twitter - both the doomerism of the left and everything about the right - and it was a pleasant surprise to re-open bsky for the first time in months and see it be so active.

oilerslive.bsky.social•191 days ago

It's funny I never found Twitter so bad, but then again, I never engaged with the trolls so I think they tired of me early. If someone was just spouting awfulness I'd also never hesitate to use the mute function. I haven't moved fully, I'm crossposting for now.

benjaminwendorf.bsky.social•191 days ago

I stopped engaging with Twitter when Musk bought it and made clear his intentions, but kept the account to keep the name and help ppl I followed in their follower counts. Post-election, it seemed a good message to send that even that was too much compromise.

benjaminwendorf.bsky.social•191 days ago

I also thought that one way to take a bad moment and turn it into a positive is to, within that same moment, make it also stand as a moment you made a positive change.

benjaminwendorf.bsky.social•191 days ago

(Well, it at least mitigates some of the badness)

67sound.bsky.social•191 days ago

I still haven’t closed my account but I haven’t posted since I got an account here and I think for several months my only posts were about how awful the place was.

benjaminwendorf.bsky.social•191 days ago

I really don't have much perspective on how much worse it got after Musk bought it bc I refused to engage with it. It was basically just a "news" ticker, when I would look at it. Was just kind of adrift for awhile, hoping something would emerge...and then, here. Now.

bee2cee.bsky.social•191 days ago

The blue checkmark drivel at the top of every thread really started bothering me in July. Checked out Threads then and it was no good. Came to bluesky the day after the election when the other app was somehow *even worse* than before. In the last week most follows I care about have migrated here.

hankdillon.bsky.social•191 days ago

I think addiction. Just got so used to scrolling through.

anjinmiura.bsky.social•191 days ago

Less about what’s going on elsewhere and more about what’s not going on there (and hasn’t for a good long while): enlightened intellectual interaction. Seems to be some of that here and recently a tipping point of volume achieved.

richbaillie.bsky.social•191 days ago

By being engaged in the future of the free world, my X feed was overwhelmed by Elon, Ben Shapiro and their ilk.

mnorman87.bsky.social•191 days ago

I quit Twitter last summer and have been on Threads this whole time, and I kept wondering this same question. What was taking everyone so long?

schmitty16.bsky.social•191 days ago

Only on Twitter to follow sports stuff. Once a decent amount of content moved over here, was happy to make the switch.

calebwiim.bsky.social•191 days ago

The wave of established hockey folks moving at once was the nudge needed for me. The last time a wave (that I noticed) moved, this place was still invite only.

Specifically I think all the athletic folks moving at once gave a lot of momentum.

johnnyutah1.bsky.social•191 days ago

It’s just flooded now with right wing conspiracies and garbage. I used x for sports, news etc. and the feed wasn’t worth it. I still have it for now but hope to permanently leave it

johnnyutah1.bsky.social•191 days ago

I stayed on x because I simply hadn’t tried other options. So BSk started popping up recently and it made sense to try

dancindan84.bsky.social•191 days ago

I *tried* moving over long ago, and I've been using Twitter less and less because it was a cesspool. Tried Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky. None filled the void. The reason I've been more active here lately is simply: because everyone else is including some key accounts.

hockeygod.bsky.social•191 days ago

For me, I’ve been here a while, but not very active. I hate the other place but all the sportswriters were there, so that’s where I was. Glad to see the community growing now.

phanes.bsky.social•191 days ago

X literally is an authoritarian platform,used to steal people's data for use in making ai.

X is literally using people's cat and dog photos to power a computer intelligence made of weird math we don't understand,that can then be used to spread fascist propaganda,and flood the site with fake pets.

blackgoldhockey.bsky.social•191 days ago

The election night was the straw that broke the camel's back. Consistently poor experience culminating in a night of egregious shit posting. Had enough at that point.

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