This platform is genuinely becoming useful. It reminds me of the heyday of twitter when you could actually find the latest news, rather than the latest hatred.
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It has transformed itself. It will evolve more. Giving a few tweaks, slightly more video time and an opportunity to do a version of Twitters 'Spaces' to constructively talk to each other audibly, would make it perfect.
It's nice to be able to read through the comments and see an actual discussion, rather than a rapid descent into tribalistic abuse from 'verified' accounts.
I used to use Twitter to work out why Brixton Road wasn’t moving. Perfect real-time information. By the time I left I couldn’t even find people I followed.
Yep. 2012-18 peak Twitter might be back. The news aspect is what I think will draw people here. That real time update aspect & not being piled on for expressing an opinion about it.
Like everyone says, blocking here is really powerful. It takes "don't feed the trolls" to a whole new level, significantly reducing their reach and capacity to generate outrage. Between that and no algorithm to boost them they can pretty much just talk amongst themselves if they want.
First lot to deal with are those who have MAGA in their bio’s type MAGA in the search to find the list follow the list then click block all, that came via Carol Vorderman these ‘fixes’ are being shared slowly
You can’t, but block lists will reduce engagement and reduce incentives to troll or bait. Plus there are no financial incentives for engagement farming here as far as I can see.
Ha, I don't think we can, but eventually, they will post something that gets them banned here. Remember those halcyon days? When people actually got banned...
To argue with you rather than agree with bots I guess. On a side note I'm a little interested to see how the right wing bots evolve as they just argue with one another for years, particularly when Trump and Musk fall out.
They absolutely love their echo chamber, where the all just endorse each other’s views. They get real rage when someone tries to disagree. They’re like pigs in shit over there.
Totally agree but they enjoy and thrive on the conflict. Moderation lists and block controls seem pretty strong here though. It's amazing how quickly this place has sprung into life in the last month, pretty much everyone that I used to follow there (that got drowned out by blue ticks) are here now.
Dipped my toe in a few times but there seems to be enough people here to actually make it a proper x alternative now. I do miss trending. Especially news trending.
Although I set my timeline to “following”, it regularly autonomously switched to “for you”, with a tweet from Lone Skum himself invariably right at the top 😡
The news I don't have here yet is the video posts of the relentless horrors in Ukraine and Gaza, I'm less anxious but feel I should be bearing witness; how much witnessing can we bear though?
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What about muh free peach.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetimeline.bsky.social/post/3lapb6yenxc2g
Did a proper immediate block yesterday on someone from twitter whose first instinct was to try and quote dunk on me and... it was very freeing
https://bsky.app/profile/lukeacl.com/post/3laugzsvopk23
No @paulbrand.bsky.social or @sophyridge.bsky.social, I’ll not be adding you two 🤣
There's a MAGA one that works very well.
Maybe someone should create a UK Trolls list?
Blocking is much stronger here than it ever was on Twitter. The moderation tools here are good. A lot of effort was put into this at the start.
So blocking seems to be the best way.
Also https://bsky.app/profile/did...
hit subscribe and block numerous troll accounts ie Maga, Content scrapers etc
Block
Block
Oh, and report any who aren't playing nice
I'm here because of guardian & hearing james o brien mention it
Yesterday,
So I assumed it was finally taking off.
It's like twitter b4 musky