Yup that’s exactly what it is. And you have to wade through the bile to find the good stuff, as the algorithm boosts the bile.
I have a decent following (5k) on twitter and there was previously a good community within my field. I’m fully aware that it’s meaningless egotistical bullshit, but it does feel like a wrench to start from scratch on Bluesky
That’s another thing BlueSky has done well from a product perspective to make the transition easier. They have a variety of options including what they call “starter packs” that allow you to rebuild your account in terms of who you are following pretty well. It does nothing directly to rebuild your following, but if everyone who moves over uses it then your people should find you pretty easily.
Good to know thanks. I haven’t properly looked into it yet.
I noticed George Monbiot and others are setting 20th January as the date for people to move over by
https://x.com/georgemonbiot/status/1856706045562748991?s=46&t=Tk6buFVfyHeITdfFRWCVMg
In the last few days I have gained 4 times as many followers on Bluesky than I have had in 15 years of Twitter. I generally don’t go looking for followers, but it’s mainly Liverpool fans that are finding me on Bluesky. At least from an LFC point of view, it looks to be building a decent community.
What are the links (sorry don’t know terminology) for Liverpool fans there?
I wonder how long it will take before the club realises it probably should have an account on there…
I’ve been using this feed. I’m not sure if there are better ones but it has some reasonable content:
There is a list of fans here:
I’m not a perfect person…
Stephen King leaving Twitter/X
Yes, just jump to the Zuckerberg alternative.
He’s old so naturally gravitates towards Facebook lol
Ditto.
That’s disappointing. Facebook/ Meta has its own problems. But maybe it is more established than Bluesky and other alternatives.
I follow a very limited selection of Twitter users, and enjoy reading their input.
I have very few “followers”, and don’t crave any more.
Naturally the Twitter algorithm decides to insert many other subjects into my timeline.
As difficult and physically demanding as it is, I muster up all my strength to lift my thumb and scroll the screen past the content I have no interest in.
It’s tough, and saps my energy, but I get through it.
I’ve tried Threads for a couple of months and met a few good people there, but now headed to Bluesky to avoid toxic billionaires.
Zuckerberg did some pretty clunky censorship around the election.
Their theory for being less toxic was to make it an explicitly politics free (maybe even news free, I don’t remember the details) platform.
Threads or Bluesky?
Are the main LFC related media guys present in bluesky ?
Redmen TV
LFC unofficial
Daveockop
Threads