I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky.

So, what can you tell me about this project?

  • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It’s twitter except for the old guy instead of the new guy. If you left twitter for bluesky then you are likely just going to run into the same issue down the road where the old guy sells it for tons of money to whoever will pay. Those willing to pay are likely not great at managing a social media platform.

      • PelicanPersuader@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I wanted to like Mastodon but couldn’t. The only reason I used microblogging services like Twitter was to shitpost about Vampire: The Masquerade. Said game includes lots of death, blood, and other topics that make some folks uncomfortable. On Twitter, the atmosphere was very “don’t like, don’t read”, but Mastodon has an intense culture about using content warnings on anything that might make someone marginally uncomfortable. I’m cool with that, but I can’t do it on my shitposting or it sort of ruins the joke. Bluesky doesn’t have that atmosphere.

        • garrett@infosec.pub
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          8 months ago

          I know folks usually skew that way but it’s server to server. Frankly, I don’t use any warnings because I can’t be bothered and my instance is fine with it.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            1·
            8 months ago

            That misunderstanding proves how we need to review the user experience of federated projects, or at least do a much better job of explaining it to everyone.

            • garrett@infosec.pub
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              8 months ago

              Spot on. I do understand that there’s a bit of difficulty to it considering its a fairly significant paradigm shift from where we were.