Posted by mkeeter 10/24/2024
That said, if anyone can make it work, it's the team there. It's no accident the CEO was able to navigate Bluesky's exit from Twitter.
Matt Yglesias, a milquetoast centrist liberal Harris voter, founder of Vox, had his comments entirely brigaded by leftists doxing his old house, threatening him with hammers, and the highest liked comment is: "matty i hate to break it to you but the majority of this website would chase you around with a shovel" https://bsky.app/profile/manateejay.bsky.social/post/3k7x4lk...
You'd think if the milieu was intellectual, you'd have some reasonable debates about policy but it's all "gtfo" and threats.
I'm not saying anything said against Matty are good or bad, just that like, you're taking one incident and claiming that the whole site is one thing. It's really not.
I don't think you'll find almost any post in the 50% right of US political opinion that wouldn't be viciously attacked as a way to enforce conformity rather than debate its merits. That's an echo chamber to me and most people I reckon.
Hopefully they get a handle on that; a reputation for lax moderation re:violence could easily deflate their sudden hype.
I have been really enjoying the ability to create my own user Lists, and then being able to pin them to my Feeds. I have one for Astro, one for Web Dev, etc.
The next feature that I really want to see is the ability to move all users in a Starter Pack directly into one of my own Lists. That's a nice way to 10x my list size by interest group. The coolest thing is that I just created a decent feature request for that, and I know it will at least be considered.
Interest groups are something that I have realized is why I still come back to Reddit a lot. Nothing else does that as well as Reddit. While big Bsky Lists are not the same thing, it does scratch that same itch.
I could imagine user curated Lists becoming a bigger thing on Bksy, as far as finding other user's great lists and pinning them to my own feeds.
Also, sometimes I am in the mood for one nerdy topic, while other times I am in the mood for another.
Apologies for missing your reply for so long.
https://mastodon-analytics.com/
I would be interested in some stats that compare the number of active users, and also number of users who actually made use of decentralization features (i.e. use a custom domain instead of bsky.social).
> Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/blueskys-upcoming-prem...
I am finding many astronomers on there and other scientists.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-academics-x-elon-...
If you’re interested in such things, make sure to scroll through the “feeds” and sub to a few relevant ones. There’s also a “starter packs” feature allowing aggregators to suggest people to follow. As of now the social science spaces are a little quiet in comparison to tech, politics, and astronomy, but I have hope they’ll grow.
As Twitter becomes more and more monocultural, the exodus of academics will only accelerate, IMHO. I mean, they have NPR on Bluesky! Can’t beat that.
What's weird is that PBS isn't on Bluesky (yet) because didn't Musk start to treat them very toxicly and label them "state-affiliated" (which is ridiculous).
I'd really like PBS SpaceTime on Bluesky, there is an unofficial bot but the real thing for interaction would be great.
Yeah, crypto bros.