If bluesky continues to grow, the porn and bots will arrive shortly and presumably it will have less resources to combat them than the much better funded X. Or does something in the design help here?
Regardless, I think this is more the new home effect. When you move into a new house, it is clean and you design it with intention. Over the years, it gets dirty and you start to hate the art you liked (people you followed) years ago.
lm28469 50 minutes ago [-]
Interactions on Twitter are like 50-80% bots, it's not a resources problem
v0idzer0 25 minutes ago [-]
Not sure I agree with your numbers but I also never see a single political post and everyone seems to say thats all that exists so it might be specific to how you use it or which feed tab you frequent
tzs 1 hours ago [-]
This an a similar story a few days ago from Science [1] were both flag killed within an hour of submission, then eventually revived by some mechanism.
I'm curious why that is. I didn't see anything in either of them that should be particularly controversial.
The recent deluge of positive press BS gets is somewhat suspect. BS seems to be following the same route as pre-X Twitter clones did in that those who either got banned (pre-X Twitter) or decided to abandon (post-Trump election X) Twitter/X are often ideologically driven. Where this means platforms like Gab and Parler took in a large number of guns & god types it means that BS is taking in the pronouns brigade, the perpetually oppressed, victimhood fetishists and more. This has the effect of turning these platforms into echo chambers for the 'right' (Gab etc.) and 'left' (pre-X Twitter and now BS). An echo chamber is a lousy place to discuss science since all you'll hear is yourself, repeated endlessly. Science (the magazine) should know that but it, like Nature and Scientific American has abandoned the principle of keeping its editorial/political bias at a minimum.
ChrisArchitect 2 hours ago [-]
Related:
Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
A quick reminder: If you are on the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc), you can follow people on BlueSky and vice versa using Bridgy Fed (https://fed.brid.gy/).
I personally haven't tried it - if people know any interesting folks to follow who are on Bluesky and not Fediverse, please post their profile!
Also, some people on Mastodon are/were very much against this bridge. I believe the author made some effort to make changes to appease them. So don't be surprised if you see articles from 5 months ago attacking it.
sneed_chucker 2 hours ago [-]
This whole BlueSky thing feels inorganic.
dyauspitr 57 minutes ago [-]
Feels very organic actually considering it has been around for a while now and people are only now beginning to move to it in droves.
morkalork 43 minutes ago [-]
It's definitely snowballing now. Other than chatgpt, it's been years since the last time that's happened?
1 hours ago [-]
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Regardless, I think this is more the new home effect. When you move into a new house, it is clean and you design it with intention. Over the years, it gets dirty and you start to hate the art you liked (people you followed) years ago.
I'm curious why that is. I didn't see anything in either of them that should be particularly controversial.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198278
Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198278
I personally haven't tried it - if people know any interesting folks to follow who are on Bluesky and not Fediverse, please post their profile!
Also, some people on Mastodon are/were very much against this bridge. I believe the author made some effort to make changes to appease them. So don't be surprised if you see articles from 5 months ago attacking it.