Thank goodness there are others who are looking to share interesting, intelligent, informative, funny, ideas and opinions and news. And pics of cats and puppies and other animals that make us smile. The bullshit can go somewhere else.
I would like to draw attention to this aspect of usability and activeness for Twitter refugees. I would be delighted if those responsible at Bluesky would give it some thought. Thank you for your attention! https://bsky.app/profile/holgersturm82.bsky.social/post/3laqrmjvpvc2j
I deactivated my Xitter account today. I've been here for about 14 months and would occasionally toggle back to Xitter to read some writers. They're not here yet, but it's just not worth it to stay there. Hopefully, they'll come here.
This is a time when users should be especially understanding of the folk doing ops because they are facing what we call a 'success disaster'. I shared an office with Jim Gettys at W3C. Jim worked for DEC and gave regular reports of the Alta Vista success disaster.
Double the number of users means double the number of machines. And no 'the cloud' is not an automatic solution. Someone, somewhere has to be buying machines, racking them, powering them, cooling them and feeding them Internet.
It grew very rapidly in 1993, largely as a result of the Web. At the time something like 10 million academics were connected through dozens of networks. At Oxford, I was on HEPNET and JANET, only the PRG next door had Internet.
The plan at the time was all these networks would converge through OSI, also known as DECNET Phase V.
Until then, the networks were loosely coupled through gateways. The original purpose of the Internet was to join the networks together through the Inter-Network which is not a Network.
As soon as Mosaic arrived, US colleges and departments started throwing information onto Web Servers and withing six months it was the Encyclopedia Galactica every academic needed so every network manager discovered they had to do Internet as well.
The process of network transition was quite a bit slower but in Sept 1992 very few UK academics had Internet and by end 1994 pretty much all of them did.
By 1995, everywhere had Internet and institutions started shutting down the others.
Glad to be here and out of the toxic muck of X. Unlike just watching I want to be more active here and would appreciate a follow from all. Sane politics. Advertising writer. Husband. Madison co-creator. Cocker. Cats. Somewhat funny, insightful. Occasionally both.
We’re feeling here with resource limitations. Must mean Twitler is losing subscribers. But that’s a good thing and will get ironed out. The time to deactivate Elmo is NOW as tomorrow his AI starts scraping tweets for who knows what!
This is not relevant, though, as Bluesky data is public and anyone can train anything on it, so far. I'm sure Elon is busy grokking Bluesky even as we speak.
The thing that drove Lemon off is that the ToU will require disputes to be argued in, lol, North Texas court.
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That means we'll hit 20m in about a week, 28m in about 3 weeks, and 40m in about 6 weeks.
aka Bluesky is on the path to 40m users by christmas
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-sees-largest-user-exodus-musk-takeover-rcna179793
So 500K seems pretty small in comparison.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/bluesky-app-twitter-exodus-x-elon-musk.html
AND you get the funny number hell yeah
You can see them in the comment sections on big accounts.
Blue Sky has clearly reached critical mass and is in the exponential growth stage.
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It grew very rapidly in 1993, largely as a result of the Web. At the time something like 10 million academics were connected through dozens of networks. At Oxford, I was on HEPNET and JANET, only the PRG next door had Internet.
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Until then, the networks were loosely coupled through gateways. The original purpose of the Internet was to join the networks together through the Inter-Network which is not a Network.
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By 1995, everywhere had Internet and institutions started shutting down the others.
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Glad to be here and out of the toxic muck of X. Unlike just watching I want to be more active here and would appreciate a follow from all. Sane politics. Advertising writer. Husband. Madison co-creator. Cocker. Cats. Somewhat funny, insightful. Occasionally both.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/social-media/
Was in X today and they’re running wild on nasty remarks to people. It’s 1,000% worse than it was before.
This place has come a long way since then! 🎉
The US version of 11 May is 5/11, but some other countries reverse it
When I write out dates I always use the military form:
5 May 2024
11 November 2024
Or
2024-11-05 (ISO)
I never use 11/5/2025 as that is not the same in all countries
The thing that drove Lemon off is that the ToU will require disputes to be argued in, lol, North Texas court.