Last night, prompted by chatting with @blessingjr.bsky.social, I made the small but notable change to make my main “social” app Bluesky instead of Twitter on my phone’s main page. Habit already has me impulsively checking Bluesky instead. Recommend you do it, too! - ThreadSky

patrickklepek.bsky.social • 96 days ago

Last night, prompted by chatting with @blessingjr.bsky.social, I made the small but notable change to make my main “social” app Bluesky instead of Twitter on my phone’s main page. Habit already has me impulsively checking Bluesky instead. Recommend you do it, too!

Comments

theadamzone.xyz•96 days ago

Yeah I had to delete the app entirely. I kept opening it out of habit and after doing so, I haven’t had the urge to visit. Instead I check to see if anyone I was following closely has flown over here.

mscrizzle.bsky.social•96 days ago

I don't have an audience like you, but ever since all the people in like started using Blue sky more i was able to delete my Twitter and uninstall the app. I was opening out of habit but didn't like it anymore

vicious696.bsky.social•96 days ago

I did the same and my mental is better for it

optimaximal.bsky.social•96 days ago

There's a hole in my Social Media folder...

jstevenson.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yeah I did this last week and my Twitter usage has dropped almost completely off

giiiy.bsky.social•96 days ago

Same. Feels nice.

petexn.bsky.social•96 days ago

A smart move

jedi79.bsky.social•96 days ago

A silly thing that helped me not check twitter is to put Bluesky icon in the exact spot that you had the twitter one ! silly but it worked for me l

cluter.bsky.social•96 days ago

Did kinda the same. Put BSky where Twitter used to be on my home screen.

rickyfish.bsky.social•96 days ago

I mostly follow rather than post so I don’t know exactly how good it is for cross-posting, but Openvibe on iOS will merge mastadon, bluesky, and thread into one app if you’re into that (I noticed the others in your socials folder). Great for me as a follower with some of my follows splitting apps.

thepixelrobot.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’m finishing up finding the profiles I followed on twitter. Once done I’m deleting that sucker.

dcsoda.bsky.social•96 days ago

I deactivated my account and it’s something I probably should’ve done a while ago.

pvbaikun.bsky.social•96 days ago

Did the same thing, and I've actually deleted the entire app now that I deleted my account.

It's dead, gone, that time has been.

danthiell.bsky.social•96 days ago

Same. Deleted Twitter from my phone and the shortcut from my browser. Have not missed it at all.

hopefulbullshit.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’ll do you one better - just delete the twitter app ;)

patrickklepek.bsky.social•96 days ago

I’m getting there, but ultimately my bills are centered around audience building and there remains a sizable but stubborn audience there for my work.

hopefulbullshit.bsky.social•96 days ago

Alas. 😩

patrickklepek.bsky.social•96 days ago

My short term goal is making my social browsing primarily Bluesky, while cross-posting to Twitter. It’s been the reverse so far.

hopefulbullshit.bsky.social•96 days ago

Bluesky has been my primary post and browse spot for quite some time. I still check twitter occasionally but only on a computer. I definitely am not reliant on it for income though

kettledown.bsky.social•96 days ago

Same, haven’t checked Twitter since installing Bluesky. A healthy number of people I followed have come over here that didn’t bother with Threads. This is the one, I feel it

jonasplays.bsky.social•96 days ago

Finally deleting Twitter and replacing it with Bluesky was feeling great. NGL.

knobfeel.bsky.social•96 days ago

I did this, it really helps when muscle memory is helping too!

hemidal.com•96 days ago

I purged tweets and follows, made it private and left a single post to Bluesky profile. Then I deleted the app from devices. Felt real good.

juliancrowhurst.bsky.social•96 days ago

Deleted Twitter from my phone and never looking back ✌️

troncek.bsky.social•96 days ago

What is your take on Dave Troy's investigation into who is behind Bsky? https://toad.social/@davetroy/113476788536250587

patrickklepek.bsky.social•96 days ago

I am also slowly but surely rebuilding my custom lists in Bluesky, one of the reasons I still feel a pull Over There. I like checking my carefully curated lists of people in sports, games, etc.

puppysarusrex.bsky.social•96 days ago

That was a huge challenge for me when moving to Threads and going through it again to find everyone in here is yet another massive effort. It's slowly coming together though and it's been great reconnecting with people that didn't make the jump last year.

techsev.bsky.social•96 days ago

The block lists alone are worth it.

billsteve.bsky.social•96 days ago

I'm sure we are all interested in @patrickklepek.bsky.social's "Pack of people to follow" list. but we all know it will just but @packbenpack.bsky.social

thed34n.bsky.social•96 days ago

This has been the hardest part for me as well.

alabasterslim.com•96 days ago

The icon is so much nicer and a great reminder of what Twitter was.

jaybennett.bsky.social•96 days ago

This was the best way for me to disconnect from Twitter as well. I have since completely deleted the app realizing I no longer need it.

trodrigues.net•96 days ago

A thing I like over here is that you can just set a list/feed as your main home feed and split everyone by lists if you'd like.

aprilfoolschild.bsky.social•96 days ago

Sports has been my only blocker to fully deleting that app. Hockey folks are dragging their feet.

brianaltano.bsky.social•96 days ago

Did the same. I took twitter off my phone entirely and just look here now. When old habits make me instinctively check twitter on desktop I’m reminded of how rotten it is now and I bounce off quickly. It genuinely feels like a sketchy malware gambling site now. Whole place is just gross and broken.

xjustified.bsky.social•96 days ago

I only keep it on my phone for news notifications. Once this app has that, Twitter is going in the actual dumpster for me.

I just removed it from my home screen because I kept accidentally opening it out of habit lol

luceobrien.bsky.social•96 days ago

Ian Miles Cheong sitting on his throne of shit surrounded by glitching blue tick bots vibes

brianaltano.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yup. Even some of my well meaning peers are paying for twitter blue and doing engagement bait shit like “what’s the best puzzle game??” so they can get some pennies in the mail. Like how about I tell you in person next time I see you and hand you a nickel afterwards.

glengreer.ca•96 days ago

are you using @deck.blue on desktop?

shivambhatt.bsky.social•96 days ago

It was the first thing I did and it really worked

andrearene.bsky.social•96 days ago

I did the same as well! Feels good ☺️

victorlucas.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yup same. 👊🏻

jlwoodman.bsky.social•96 days ago

Did the same! I ditched threads (which I was using instead of twitter) instead but this is it

kickrole.bsky.social•96 days ago

Sidenote: customize your home screen to use the large icons. It removes all the text under the icons and just makes it feel less cluttered.

tommace81.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yes, moving Bluesky to my main page and moving that other app far away helped. Small change, but the habit to click the other app isn’t there anymore.

nolatency.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is an obvious but excellent idea.

zaidkriel.bsky.social•96 days ago

Yup, I've done the same. Haven't deleted my account as of yet, but the app has been off my phone for a while now

oksurejamie.bsky.social•96 days ago

I did the same last week, and it does make a big difference. Twitter is tucked away in a folder on page two. The goal is to delete it entirely, but I’m giving it a couple weeks of heavy Bluesky use, i dunno, as a “just to be sure” I guess.

patrickdane.bsky.social•96 days ago

I saw a good suggestion by someone saying to put Twitter on Light mode so it sucks to look at and makes you want to get off as quickly as possible.

andersen.bsky.social•95 days ago

I can confirm that eventually you forget it's not Twitter (until you notice less preferential treatment being given to annoying shit stirrers by the algorithm)

cesarpalafox.bsky.social•96 days ago

Did this a few weeks back. Started by just removing Twitter from the home screen in an attempt of breaking a habit. Now I brought BS so I’ve just replaced the habit 🤣. But I haven’t gotten angry scrolling in here yet so that’s a big plus….

mrhox.storymoders.com•96 days ago

I did the same thing last week! Unfortunately, FotMob is still there, reminding me how shit my club is…

forever314.bsky.social•96 days ago

I would ask people to go even further and remove Twitter from their phone entirely. Even though a lot of us use it for work we can't just cut the hydra's heads off one at a time, we gotta slash them all at once and just be done with it.

turnipseed.bsky.social•96 days ago

I hid it in a folder until I no longer felt the want to check it, which was quicker than I thought it'd be.

mona0915.bsky.social•96 days ago

I did the same, it was my first day at Blue Sky. I needed to do something.

kildain.bsky.social•96 days ago

Same, but I also had to disable Twitter notifications… haven’t quite decided to delete it yet but the urge to check it shrinks daily

calamus.bsky.social•96 days ago

It's bad, but because I have been much more selective on who I follow on here (congrats on making the cut btw), there isn't as much content on my feed. Sometimes I go back just for new content.

I think I just outlined social media addiction.