Why is it ironic?
You missed the left right aspect.
Iām sure that sounded funny in your head.
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Funny? No, just clever word play. Try it sometime.
Yup thatās 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. Iām fully aware that itās meaningless egotistical bullshit, but it does feel like a wrench to start from scratch on Bluesky
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Thatās 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 āstarter packsā 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.
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Good to know thanks. I havenāt 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
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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 donāt go looking for followers, but itās 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.
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What are the links (sorry donāt know terminology) for Liverpool fans there?
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I wonder how long it will take before the club realises it probably should have an account on thereā¦
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Iāve been using this feed. Iām not sure if there are better ones but it has some reasonable content:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aev5mvvrvhbmidjamh6k2iqt/feed/aaaa42i5oj3km
There is a list of fans here:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wghyohl4igpb4up3jr33vqvg/lists/3l6u5nyz6ls2i
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Iām not a perfect personā¦
Stephen King leaving Twitter/X
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Yes, just jump to the Zuckerberg alternative.
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Heās old so naturally gravitates towards Facebook lol
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Ditto.
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Thatās 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 āfollowersā, and donāt 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.
Itās tough, and saps my energy, but I get through it.
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Iāve 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.
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Their theory for being less toxic was to make it an explicitly politics free (maybe even news free, I donāt remember the details) platform.
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