It’s frustrating to see how many people on Twitter are complaining about how awful it is but are flat out dismissing Bluesky because it doesn’t have some minor feature that’s probably coming soon. We FINALLY have a genuine Twitter alternative but people don’t want to be slightly inconvenienced
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They could always attach images and stuff the ALT tags.
And some seem intimidated to try another platform, but that doesn’t mean they should discourage others over their own reservations.
I do find it pretty dumb, because as you said, this is a genuine Twitter alternative. It's great here, so people not wanting to switch over just confuses me...
and i feel exactly this attitute is the issue that still holds new platforms back
its only people talking about it that never tried bsky
Look at the long term stats over the past year, and the site keeps growing and growing
https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats
Hence why some don't give BlueSky a chance (when it comes to making a following).
I've seen so many new accounts hit 1,000+ followers in just one day here. Turns out that understanding how things work here and participating in an art share or two works wonders.
BlueSky will catch up soon. And this'll eventually just completely replace Twitter for a lot of people as a result.
Decentralized algorithm
Starter packs for promoting accounts
Easy accessibility and customizability
Alt text
A goddamn BLOCK button
Things bluesky DOESNT have:
Custom gif support
Video support over 1 minute
Media support in DMs
Private accounts
Good deal I think
I’m already having a good time on here… finally no more drama or terrible crap, just peace.
Others drop art, don't get the same numbers as on Twitter and leave again.
You can look at accounts and see months gap between posts that correlates with Musky fuck-ups
Like yeah I haven’t had any art get above 2K, but I actually know people are going to see my work on here and I don’t have to worry about any dumb suppression cause I typed out a post the wrong way
I also like it here a lot more because back on Twitter I got 0 interactions even tho my friends were there.
Here my art is actually getting seen.
Also as a heads up, but while the existing big name accts here have been highly encouraging ppl to do alt text in photos for disability accessibility reasons, it has the benefit of keywords getting picked up for feeds too 👍
People aren’t even willing to give it a shot. Just do both at the same time 😭
I know many already hop between twitter and insta, im sure we will be fine with this as another location
It's actually insane how miserable the average Twitter user is, and honestly? Maybe it's for the best that some of them stay there.
A more mellow platform would be nice.
They can make any reason for why they don't want to switch but it really comes down to that
This is just similar enough to Twitter that the transition is easy to do.
Nah, Bsky has added so many of the features of late and handled feedback pretty well so far. I'm pretty confident the latest push will be the icebreaker - especially with the artist community coming over after the AI change to the TOS.
plus getting used to a new website/layout can be really jarring im ngl
people shouldnt have to leave just because elon is a little bitch
they went through so much on twitter, they have all the reasons they'd need to convince themselves to stay, even if Twitter is objectively a negative on their life.
Can stay
In hell.
Why do we
Want people that pessimistic
And miserable here?
Talking when you
Can barely move.
Some ppl just wanna live and die on the hill that is twitter which is stupid.
Why would i give up or lose my following to an app that has the worst extemist and propoganda problem and dangles a better algorithm and locked features behind a paywall.
The biggest thing I'm seeing is either there's no official accounts like fortnite or they don't wanna leave their followers but everything is so much better and supportive here they could get followers easily so they're just kinda whining
Plus, they're all curmudgeons over there who just prefer being miserable
bookmarks is a thing but we have a work around for that
and all three of these things will probably just happen in a couple months anyways
I'd argue this place has several features twitter doesn't even have themselves too
I took 0 followers with me from Twitter (as I had none 😝), and in a year I have gotten 1k, which to me is astonishing.
the trade-off is worth it for me tho I'm so glad to not have to read "The Pyramids Have Activated. Buy Shasfsfcoin today."every five posts
https://bsky.app/profile/dedididadada.bsky.social/post/3l6oty5jydh2r
But it isn't! We've just gotta build the alternative ourselves :)
It also flat out sucks all of this comes from elon being a dumbass.
Complaining about it publicly on a social media platform is basically ungrateful behaviors anyways not having em here seems chill for me
Is such a quitter attitude. It makes me feel like no one wants to try anymore.
The lack of porn bots and hyper racists already makes it infinitely better than Twitter, not to mention the consistently good updates
Twitter’s literally rewarding racists and has become irrefutably the worst place on the internet at this point and people are still like “but what am I gonna do without bookmarks?”
Or
No nazi propaganda w/ bookmarks coming in, like, a month or 2
One of the hardest questions of modern day 😔
I just gotta buckle down and get back to crossposting again like I used to 💀
But yeah, I agree. I just sincerely hope that Bluesky never has to go through the enshittification process like Twitter.
I'd rather have a small active community rather than being shilled like every other place on the internet
lot of official brand big accounts are centerpieces to a lot of communities , news and updates from the source is important
Honestly I’m pleasantly surprised at how well the app is doing, we just need the momentum to continue.
still hopin the official one pops in soon but this is still good :)
Slight inconvenience from Bsky? Nah
Massive inconvenience from Elon? Heck yes!
lol. I take Bsky any day.
My brother in Christ, if you and your friends come over it means more people will be here!! It’s simple math!!
Thanks tho
immensely minor complaints compared to everywhere else though
When you can actually get 30+ followers in your first day lol
Personally I'm glad certain people aren't coming
but hey if someone wants to stay in a toxic relationship that's their choice
I appealed multiple times before musk and was denied.
The musk mods reinstated my account telling me it should not have been permanently banned.
The only + thing from from musk.
yes, yes I am one.
Overall I actually genuinely like Bluesky better than Twitter and I'll probably be making a permanent switch soon (i squatted for my name so that i could be just immo <3)
I got to be
Immo
I wasn't so late that I had to add a 0 or force a bunch of underscores into it
It's so nice being able to just be 'Immo' for once
I gave Bsky a try though, and honestly have been feeling mentally better tbh.
Yes, there's still bullcrap happening here and there on here i guess, but its defo better than Twitter, not gonna forkin lie!
Like I get it yeah this place doesn’t have ALLLL the features but mind you its not built on the same budget twitter has AND not all those features were immediate to twitter anyway???
its not a simple code change and everything magically works
+ they don't want to overwhelm people with 3000000 new features
i like this pace as it is now