It’s crazy how massive influxes of porn bots, trolls, engagement farming, intrusive ad tweets, forced algorithms that were not even to your personal preferences became normalized. This honestly feels the way it did when people first made the jump from MySpace to Facebook. - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

mikeyrukus.bsky.social • 116 days ago

It’s crazy how massive influxes of porn bots, trolls, engagement farming, intrusive ad tweets, forced algorithms that were not even to your personal preferences became normalized. This honestly feels the way it did when people first made the jump from MySpace to Facebook.

Reposted from Phil Lindsey

Twitter changed my life. I got so many opportunities and met so many great people there, but it really changed for the worse. I hate what it has become.

Comments

editorguy.bsky.social•116 days ago

It’s so nice not dealing with bots and trolls. Just good positive energy and an easy block for weird behavior.

unloadingmeat.bsky.social•116 days ago

I love it here!

superj75.bsky.social•116 days ago

We could have lived with the porn. The rest of it was awful.

cultmacabre.bsky.social•116 days ago

That’s the vibe we are getting 100%

Love it here

theverylargek.bsky.social•116 days ago

Monetizing tweets really killed it even though it was already slowly dying.

therealdtlew.bsky.social•116 days ago

exactly. this app feels shiny and new

commonsensesky.bsky.social•116 days ago

The best thing about this app is that it really feels like the next level of social media. Completely decentralized (using similar open technologies that we use for email) and not owned by a douchebag billionaire. This is what social media should have started with.

carl.defractdesign.com•116 days ago

Subconsciously this was all of us being exposed to a carefully crafted cocktail of negative and degenerative content.

It was a gradual slide and I think it caught many off guard. I distinctly remember scrolling my ‘for you’ feed and seeing violent video after violent video.

Glad to be rid of it.

imwithaew.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yes! There’s something special about this place!

anthonyl.bsky.social•116 days ago

It was called doom scrolling for a reason. We have great people here, and more importantly, we don't have time or patience for the bad eggs. Take that fluff to Twitter or Threads lol

fatsfalafel.bsky.social•116 days ago

@amy.wrestlejoy.com described it as "old internet" and it was so on point.

amy.wrestlejoy.com•116 days ago

I never realized how much of the engagement farming, ragebait, advertiser based algorithms, and everything else whittled away my enjoyment of so many things.

It's felt like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders, and it's been SO lovely.

Feels a lot like the old internet, and I LOVE it.

beezzzzy.bsky.social•116 days ago

Without Twitter, I wouldn’t have the opportunities I got in pro wrestling. I’m really bummed that it’s turned into a wasteland

scottcaruso.bsky.social•116 days ago

I actually was inspired to create a Starter Pack for my other niche within the social mediasphere which I'm not going to lie, I never would have done before so I think you just might be onto something here.

amy.wrestlejoy.com•116 days ago

I've MISSED this!!! It feels so good to be surrounded by all of this fun, nerdy, chaotic, creative, and delightful energy again.

Everywhere else feels like a race to outrage in comparison.

A thief of joy.

And now, we get to reclaim it! And remember why we all love our things in the first place.

neonparadoxmusic.bsky.social•116 days ago

Twitter was a home for me for a long time, and I was really sad to see it go. This place is what Twitter was when it was the best place on the internet. And it's going to stay that way.

dolliknitrix.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yeah, I'm totally getting the 'Twitter back when it was good' vibes and I'm loving it! So sad to see the hell Twitter became

neonparadoxmusic.bsky.social•116 days ago

Absolutely. Twitter back when it was good, but with more features, and a lot less complicated. I was around back when you actually have to type "RT" on a retweet, then paste their tweet manually below that, then post your comment above the "RT," and do that all in under 140 characters. lol

dolliknitrix.bsky.social•116 days ago

Ha! I totally forgot about the manual RT thing 😄

sirtallmarc.bsky.social•116 days ago

Who was in your Top 10 friends on myspace? 😆
Its been so long!!!!

scorchtheground.bsky.social•116 days ago

Without Twitter, I wouldn’t have found the friends I now have, wouldn’t have gotten that TTRPG writing job and wouldn’t have gotten deep into wrestling. But now it’s an irredeemable cesspit. It’s sad.

tlectricmayhem.bsky.social•116 days ago

They actually made a word for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

gnatgnewton.bsky.social•115 days ago

It’s such a different vibe.

rockthismike.bsky.social•115 days ago

I can see why wrestling promotions/wrestlers will still use Twitter it still gets a lot of engagement and the word out to promote their stuff, but as a fans of wrestling it's just much worse over there for them.

Over here for the fans it's much better for them.

aewblog.bsky.social•116 days ago

💯💯💯💯

puzzledad.bsky.social•116 days ago

Yeah dude! Takes a quick minute to realize none of that is actually missed, and in fact makes room for MORE posts that I find far more interesting and engaging.

michaelemond.bsky.social•116 days ago

It’s like Bahamas here and over there is polluted waters

takai420.bsky.social•116 days ago

Chitan was the only positive thing coming out of Twitter.

dethdonald.bsky.social•115 days ago

In moderation.