I don't know, I just wanna talk about games and stuff that interests me without having people spam my mentions with images of real-life death, gore/shock images, porn, instructions on how to self-harm etc on a daily basis, and having to spend time hiding/reporting/blocking so my followers didn't see - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

caseyexplosion.bsky.social • 17 hours ago

I don't know, I just wanna talk about games and stuff that interests me without having people spam my mentions with images of real-life death, gore/shock images, porn, instructions on how to self-harm etc on a daily basis, and having to spend time hiding/reporting/blocking so my followers didn't see

Reposted from Faine Greenwood

The central delusion of pundits who desperately try to guilt people into coming back to Twitter: they genuinely seem to think we all secretly MISS Twitter and are merely hanging out over here out of a drab, self-flagellating sense of moral superiority

no, we're here because Twitter sucks shit now

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headband1.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I never had it that bad (wonder why) and I still prefer it here cus I get to actually see the things I want to see. Games, art, posts from the people I actually follow, what a shock.

maplezaddy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Look, Twitter was a fucking minefield even before Muskrat took over. Jack would not do a fucking thing while hate groups and harassment movements did their best to make the site utterly toxic.

I quit once Muskrat bought the fucking place and I don't regret it.

maplezaddy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I share pictures of my models, dogs of other people, and plants I took pictures of on my walks and the engagement is lovely.

Even the other day, when I made a mistake about milk for and malox for treating pepper spray, people corrected me without calling me an idiot.

It's just NICER here.

namelessvoice.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Twitter is filled with nazis and bot accounts, and their "moderation" just sends you emails that nothing has broken their terms of service, no matter how vile or illegal.

But Bluesky has its own problems - there's hardly anyone here, and I think they just silently ignore reports too.

senabryer.com•16 hours ago

Even if everything negative that came out of Twitter was reverted back to ye olde times, the only thing that website would have to entice me is 6000 more followers. Which like... whoo?

jazzpomegranate.com•16 hours ago

you’ll get that back here in no time imo

stygiansk0nk.bsky.social•14 hours ago

While I am a bit annoyed at my posts not getting much traffic, to be fair, I wasn't getting many interactions on Twatter by the time I nuked ny account.

windlass.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I moved here because... well yea, just that. Twitter did not feel like it was safe to be on and I could not stand it anymore. Morally it felt wrong. Sure BlueSky has it's own issues but twitter became the Nazi bar.

flameonminiatures.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Omg, I thought that only my feed is flooded with violence and hateful content for some reason 😬 yes, it’s very toxic in there.

shampoochan13.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I blocked that account probably a year ago…? XD” I’ll have to check clearsky

step-hen.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's like abusers chasing after their victims to wherever they feel safe and saying said-victims are better off back at the abusive households.

anocelittle.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Good thing that Steam NextDest has begun once again! Now you’ll have plenty of games to talk about.

polearmguy.bsky.social•16 hours ago

there is a weird strain of people thinking twitter qua twitter was this excellent thing and no

samhainvt.bsky.social•16 hours ago

You'd think the people that criticize BlueSky the most would bring up things like the lack of basic features, the T&S team being ran by transphobes and Zionists, the abuse of block filters by bad actors, etc.

Instead it's always conservatives bitching that they get called out on their bullshit

midnightaccident.bsky.social•9 hours ago

right, bluesky is by no means perfect, the transphobes and zionists running terms and services is horrible

but shit man, at least i'm not scrolling down getting angrier and more depressed at the downright horrible takes.

poddraws.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I was just sick of terminally online devil's advocates that pay for the right to speak first, so they can write the shit they know will rile people up, and get paid for the engagement.

coralpallet.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I was going to joke about checking my tits in bio but reading this is disheartening. Sorry you and other have had such horrid experiences. I would trade you my fake responses bots If I could.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This idea that if we're using Bluesky it's because we don't want to hear "differing opinions" and that we want an "echo chamber" but that's pure intellectual dishonesty that doesn't acknowledge the real reasons people might not want to use a platform that has become even more hostile to them.

snegglepuss.bsky.social•13 hours ago

80% of what I use TwiX for is an art delivery system. A bunch of art peeps I followed there came here, so I came for the good stuff. The fact that it has fewer of the crazies on both sides that mainly exist to pick fights is definitely a bonus, though

chowderstyle.bsky.social•16 hours ago

"Echo chamber" has always meant "refuses to listen to me, personally, abuse them."

selifator.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I want to hear different opinions from people who largely agree with me on important positions ideologically. That way I can consider my own opinions and ideological views without feeling like I need to punch a motherfucker

robinfromwork.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Yeah, honestly. It's not that I'm afraid of differing opinions, but if the "differing opinion" is just saying "die f****t" over and over again when I'm posting about how I like flowers or a movie, or ANYTHING, that's...not an opinion, that's abuse.

jenpallante.bsky.social•12 hours ago

The degree of brain rot required to believe "social media should be for arguing about politics! It's the only way to be engaged." Would make rfk's worms say: nah dog I'm good.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Quite bluntly, I was tired of being sent the same images and videos of queer people being put to death spammed at me from burner accounts, or people threatening to publicly mutilate and execute me, and as soon as there was a viable alternative, there was little tying me to the site.

zoroark.ca•16 hours ago

Wow they got us, okay let's all pack up and go back to where porn bots spam us and people with the personality of a sack of starved scorpions fling unearned and uneducated feces at us.

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Anyone trying to entice folks back to Twitter are either too up their own ass to understand what that experience was like for people, or know and just want their victims back because they're bored now that they only have the company of other fascist sociopaths.

I just wanna chill and do my thing.

amyfluidgoth.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I’m starting to think these people are like the demons from Frieren: predatory monsters who use human speech only to deceive and entice their victims into getting eaten, and who can’t be reasoned with under any circumstances…

ashtheticart.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I used to get goaded into pointless arguments back when I was on Twitter, it was like an itch that couldn't help but be scratched.

Here that never really happens.

shampoochan13.bsky.social•16 hours ago

The people I’ve seen who push going back to twitter/x are people who are trolls wanting their ‘prey’ back.

stoupid.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I haven’t encountered any “please come back” posts, but that is a wild concept. Everybody I like reading is here. Why would anybody return to a website that only got shittier since they left and there’s no posts they want. I want my posts!!

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And none of that is taking into account that Twitter has been more or less unusable for anything other than conflict, its algorithms so weighted towards hostility that it felt like you being gaslit and punished if you didn't play along with what it wanted, and god help you if you posted a link.

jenpallante.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Even if twitter wasn't a hellscape, and it is, and it's not fun to use- my 10k account there no longer gets any traction at all. I get more our of 3k on here. Like actual conversations. If we're talking from a business and branding front. You can do more here.

"Number big." Is infantile.

stuartmwilke.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yeah, that was half the reason I left. I don't have anything I post on Twitter other than random thoughts, I'm not an artist/writer/whatever. But still, the main reason I still primarily used it after I got a Bsky account was because that's where all my follows were and where I would get responses.

isidoresdragon.bsky.social•16 hours ago

It's hard to understate how fucked the algorithm got over there. There were people I'd not see anything from in weeks, and when I'd look their account up, it'd turn out that they had in fact, just been tweeting a couple hours earlier that day. Their stuff just...didn't show up on my Following feed.

sidhcreature.com•16 hours ago

As a recent bit of anecdotal evidence that it can't be dying that hard, apparently it's considered worthwhile enough that ffxiv have set up official JP and EN accounts here on bluesky now too

Seems like the brands feel like it's active enough to care about

https://bsky.app/profile/en.finalfantasyxiv.com

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

A large amount of what I do includes posting links, to my own stuff like Twitch, Youtube, or when talking about games, including links to their store pages, trailers. I get way more engagement here on my threads about games than I had on Twitter in a very, very long time.

https://bsky.app/profile/caseyexplosion.bsky.social/post/3lq46xam2e22i

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I used to do *HUGE* recommendation threads every time there was a Steam sale, and they were very popular, but after Elon took over it was crickets. Because I had the temerity to include a link. I'll do the same kind of threads here now, and they do amazing, so much more comments from everyone.

theshelfables.bsky.social•16 hours ago

its just bots and people that act like them. Like what "social networking" are you supposed to be able to do in an environment like that?

tkwdagfari.bsky.social•16 hours ago

When I scrolled through my feed on Twitter, it just felt all anger and doom. When I do it here, I see cool projects and people - it just feels nicer and less dread filled.

lurdiak.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Twitter is for assholes, I truthfully don't understand why anyone is even still on there. So what if some of your audience never migrated, that's on them.

zapher.bsky.social•11 hours ago

twitter is full on fascist now. like just look at the for you tab (Actually please don't).

furryash.bsky.social•11 hours ago

People on Twitter fucking kink-shame. To hell with that.

h2theannah.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I miss chill Twitter so much. 2010-2012 were peak times to be there, before brands started opening accounts en masse and outrage merchants set up shop. My friends and I just tweeted random bullshit about our day and one time Mary Chapin Carpenter liked my post and I got so excited. Perfection.

stryc9fuego.bsky.social•12 hours ago

oh so very this. the bluesky experience is that i'm surrounded by the greatest people on the internet and we're having a fun discussion. if an asshole comes up to our table to cause some noise, the block button is an excellent bouncer.

on twitter we were at the mercy of a ket junkie on a power trip

tomdhj.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This is the main reason but the AI stuff also got super annoying. When I've gone back to find old posts to screenshot, the number of people who tag their Robot Friend to fact check stories they don't like and then keeping rewording their question when the machine doesn't say what they want is wild.

shedvolans.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I can't believe you want an echo chamber from differing opinions such as "I think waffles are better than pancakes", "I think the MCU is peak cinema", and "I think you should die and I will use what limited power I have over the internet to manifest this into reality"

Talk about closed-minded 🙃

angrynerdbird.bsky.social•59 minutes ago

As always, that is pure projection, because Twitter has been a wildly anti-trans echo chamber for YEARS.

He literally forced the site to treat cis as a slur! Absolutely absurd.

lily77.bsky.social•16 hours ago

We don't have to tolerate intolerance, but it doesn't make us an echo chamber. It just means we don't have to hear from Nazis at all. I have no desire to hear the "differing opinions" of people who exist to harm others.

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pixiemuledonkey.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Especially when the people making this charge are absolutely allergic to hearing anything politically left of the John Birch Society on most issues.

agomist.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Yep, I tend to find that the people accusing others of being in echo chambers are pretty much hermetically sealed inside their own (when they're not soiling themselves in public view)

mely32.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Also, as if leftist infighting doesn't exist lmao.
They really think we need help coming up with differing opinions?
Now excuse me while I go argue why my specific brand of socialism is the correct one.

femiurge.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Twitter is genuinely no fun anymore!

aoife-rose.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I feel you on this. Speaking of gaming, I'm replaying everything KH in one super long playthrough. Last time I did this was before the release of KH3 and I was really disappointed that radiant garden/hollow bastion and all the FF characters, were seemingly non existent. After EVERYTHING.

captoverkill.bsky.social•8 hours ago

It is kind of nice to have a place where can share my dumb opinions and not worrying about pissing off the wrong person. Then have hundreds of people harassing you because they have nothing better to do.

lalamechanicus.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Yeah the whole bullying as a hobby thing is so gross

casstone.bsky.social•16 hours ago

BlueSky gets you the endless non-joke-getters whenever you start arguments about politics or get edgy, and when you post about art sincerely it's a billion times better. It's a bad place to farm engagement for your personal brand, and a good place to look at cool stuff.

embrrrrrrr.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I’m literally trans but as fucked up as all the bigotry is, the number one enjoyment-killer for me was when it started feeling like over 50% of what I was seeing was just bots. Xitter doesn’t even feel like a social platform anymore, just a liminal highway lined with billboards for obvious scams

emceebois.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Reports for harassing minorities just go into a black hole now. I log back into X once a month or so and every time I do there's a new screenshot of someone's report against "HitlerWasRight1488" not being acted on because it's not in violation of community guidelines.

costelinhadougref.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Ok now it's kinda on you to expect reports on harassment of minorities to work on a social media that is literally owned by nazis and made for nazis now.

I'm not saying it's ok, of course these people need to be punished, but do you really think Adolf Musk of all people is going to punish them?

costelinhadougref.bsky.social•15 hours ago

He literally unbanned an account that was banned before he bought twitter for LITERAL CHILD PORNOGRAPHY for crying out loud!

emceebois.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I hear you, I was just reporting what I see when I do check in. I myself have long since stopped bothered with reporting anything, including all the the bots and spam that fill up my DM requests. 1/2

emceebois.bsky.social•15 hours ago

The only reason I go back there at all is there are still some people in the video games homebrew scene and one IRL friend who for various reasons didn't migrate to bsky and I like to see what's up, hit like a few times, and then dip. 2/2

costelinhadougref.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Honestly, fair.

I'm just glad I never sat foot into that place, it already sounded toxic as hell before Musk took over, and now it's just a thousand times worse

costelinhadougref.bsky.social•15 hours ago

(tho if you like homebrew, I ocasionally mess with that... just saying... if you're interested.... just ignore my ocasional mental breakdown, I have some wild mood swings and depression)

emceebois.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Bsky really needs to impelement edits, now you've replied to me and I can't fix the typo I noticed, my life is over 😭😭😭

gentlemanocto.bsky.social•16 hours ago

This, I just want to interact with my hobbies without some weirdo complaining about how woke or cringe it is now,

smalltowngamedev.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Nothing makes the kind of person who is still super active on Twitter more angry than someone somewhere happily ignoring them. It's wild.

qltureconfiture.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Wow that's what twitter has devolved into?

caseyexplosion.bsky.social•16 hours ago

That's what Twitter was like for me even before Elon Musk took over