As an engineer, I was simultaneously fascinated and dismayed at the lack of fluency in mathematics. I had high hopes for Threads, but I have essentially abandoned the platform.
I’ll take Bluesky over the dimwit faux outraged glasnost orange stink they have on “other” sites. Funny how Peon Musk goes “dark maga” and “x” like it’s not just one of 26 letters. What is it with fascists, and the color black? Did they not see Star Wars? Or the 1930s?
Slow down a bit. Threads has 250M monthly users and BlueSky has 20M accounts. I just joined here because I dumped Twitter (I also have a Threads account), but it’s yet to be determined whether this has staying power.
Thread has died quick. Grew fast when it was new. But never expanded to keep that growth going. I felt like threads focus was more to compete with X than focus on the platform itself.
Meta is the worst. They’ve been attacking (trying to mute) the #buddhagang effort there on fb. It’s engaged Buddhism, and they used to support us, but then they hired Dustin Carmack to combat wokeness and it sucks extra bad since then. Our reach was up in the millions for a long time, and then not
Threads is ALOT more active, honestly don’t know why the political creators don’t just use it more instead of here.. i personally don’t get any engagement here where as on threads i do.
A lot of successful social medias are built on the backs of artists. Artists don't like threads cause of their censorship policies so they stuck with X until Bluesky became the better alternative. First people on this site was artists and furrys lol. Bluesky use to be invite only for like a year
Once X changed their terms to make it so any art posted on X now was legally able to be used for AI training, artists fled from X on mass to bluesky. Then Trump won election and so political creators and progressives fleeing here. Now almost 20 million users and growing
Trying again to get your attention. Someone is using your blue sky handle but adding 44 to it. Also your picture etc. In a response to my post to you he wanted me to text him. Sounds like a scammer. Already reported.
I think folks who want to engage on the "meeds" were/are simply tired of what Meta is selling. It's not community and world engagement. It's for-profit doom-scrolling and, in my opinion, intentional pitting of ideologies of all spectrums against one another.
I downloaded Threads and immediately deleted it. The way they hide part of a post when it shows up in your FB timeline just to force you to download is ridiculous. Very deceptive and desperate.
Me neither. I abandoned my old Facebook account a while back after Facebook implemented security based on device used. My old lapto died. FB wouldn't let me log in from the new one, yada yada yada.
Threads was designed to take off like a rocket by piggybacking off of Instagram’s social network, because the sooner the service was viable, the sooner they could start carpet bombing everyone’s timelines with ads.
Yea, Threads is filled with the influencer mentality, trying to drive up engagement to make money rather than actually engaging in discussion. I gave up after a couple of months.
I think Threads was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, maybe the world wasn't ready for the Twitter replacement and I think Mastodon was coming out at the same time
Mastodon has been a thing over a decade before Threads. Threads didn't take off probably because the "algorithm" was so poor. I tried it once, and got less engagement in my first day than here on Bluesky. People just needed more people on Bluesky, and now there is.
I’m glad threads messed up because we don’t need to go from mr. x who is a big republican convert to zuck who is also a big republican convert and has no respect for privacy. Its important to move away from their algorithms.
Good to see active here now! It’s unfortunate it took a convicted felon winning President to convince people to abandon Xitter, but better late than never. Invite all your friends!
Just write the equation more clearly if you don’t want folk to get it wrong. Sometimes I think they’re deliberately trying to confuse the BODMAS issue. Honestly!
The worst part about those order of operation click baits is that they are deliberately structured in an ambiguous manner in order to provoke arguments over the correct solution.
The engagement bait was irritating and also made the platform feel artificial, in a way? And kind of like a digital ghost town, even though it had tons of traffic. I don’t know how to explain it lol.
Damn, I just realized I haven't seen a single one of those memes asking you to pick your name based on your birth date or the last sock you don't recall losing...
Or, yes, the order of operations meme.
Ahh, I didn't even realize how relaxing their nonexistence was until this moment.
Leftists chased me off of Threads. They called me a terrorist for daring to say I have conservative friends. Silly me, being a progressive liberal and having conservative friends.
Bluesky is new way forward..X became far right propaganda machine.. bluesky is decentralised platform without any algorithm BS.. x is full of bots and trolls while Bluesky is full of smart people 😸
that's what I have facebook for... for my friends and mom/moms of friends for decades. There's no discourse there and I have no interest in participating in another Zuckerberg production. I like it HERE. It's all the good things without the stupidity. And that block function....oh that block!
Here's your answer. Threads is nothing more than Facebook Lite, and I think we all know how Zuckerberg feels about balanced politics and political fact-checking.
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I personally prefer the chronological feed of following, both here and the bad place.
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally.
I’m sure other platforms have something similar, so here is a🦋 iteration
Would love to see what folks are interacting with either for fun or accountability
They would love feedback
https://flo-bit.dev/bluesky-visualizers/trending
:)
🎵one and one and one is two
Your book is sitting on my nightstand. It's my next read. 💙
How about focusing on the things most working class people care about??
All facts.
I'm convinced social media is mostly about making us collectively dumber. Idiocracy is prophesy.
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“Why?”
“No reason…”
“Ok…”
Cool platform guys.
Took way too long though
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RJR5uQpweko&si=4Jo1qHYbhJjIg7Wk
There’s just no overstating how much better @bsky.app is than #Threads
Sure they got the numbers from Instagram , but it never felt organic
That's why I never got into it myself
And way too many rabid Swifties.
Refreshing.
Or, yes, the order of operations meme.
Ahh, I didn't even realize how relaxing their nonexistence was until this moment.
Thanks for all you do, you have no idea how comforting and helpful you’ve been to me, these last few months especially!
But they were warned, but they wanted to be all cute and hands off.
I’ll bet they’re already regretting their decisions. Idiots.
Bluesky is much better.
I’m so glad that you’re on here! Your videos are some of my favorite on the Internet and your voice is going to be vital over the next four years!
Keep up the amazing work!