Yes, Bluesky progressives can frequently be irritating. But if you prefer X to Bluesky because you find progressives more irritating than you find Nazis intolerable, that's a flag something's gone wrong with your ethical reasoning. aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2i
The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
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Bluesky is what Tumblr was
Over the past several months I have watched carefully as leftists have migrated over to Bluesky from X/twitter.
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.
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Why Not Bluesky
As a dangerous and evil man drives people away from Xitter, many stories are talking up Bluesky as the destination for the diaspora. This piece explains why I kind of like Bluesky but, for the moment, have no intention of moving my online social life away from the Fediverse.
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Bluesky is being favored over Threads as the news media’s alternative to X because Bluesky sends news sites proportionately more traffic
i think, end of the day, the real problem with Bluesky is that most of its users are here *because* they want to be in a bubble. and they can tell themselves that it’s just about not being around Nazis it supporting Musk, and that’s part of it, but also there’s a palpable desire to be ensconced.
This is a really insightful thread that points out some of the fundamental issues with the Bluesky community vs Bluesky as a decentralized protocol. This thread is also why I think it's a really smart move for Bluesky to appeal to fandoms... (cont.)
B. Prendergast
One of the Atmosphere’s big bets is that the next 100m users will be won by making decentralised tech + data sovereignty more compelling. I’m less than convinced. We may be solving problems only builders care about, while overlooking problems that actually make ordinary people choose a network.
X is still better than Bluesky at combating misinformation
Grace
Clearing up a misconception I’m seeing floating around: OpenAI didn’t “misconfigure” Artifactory to allow agents to make arbitrary network requests. The agents exploited a zero day vulnerability in Artifactory to be able to do this.
Pluralism is great in cities and can turn toxic in digital spaces like Bluesky. This isn't a problem with pluralism, but with the structure of digital spaces. Fortunately, there's a pretty simple solution to keep the benefits of vast online communities while quieting their most toxic residents.
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism
www.aaronrosspowell.comTo be honest, I think this is more the ruling class in America manifesting that bluesky fails, rather than bluesky actually failing because they know they can't control it just by buying it out.
Mary Gillis
"But, two years since its launch, the site has around just 10% of X’s estimated global users." This is presented as a failure. At 2yo, having 10% of the users of its biggest rival, which is 20yo, is a failure. No tech is allowed to just be a success, it has to be a blockbuster or it doesn't count.
Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.
The Thing About Griping About Bluesky - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
www.aaronrosspowell.comEveryone on here is arguing about X and Bluesky again. But no one ever talks about the two major issues with this platform, one cultural and one technical. And until both are solved, people are going to keep arguing about whether its relevant or not! garbageday.email/p/safe-and-cozy-in-your-dooms…
