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dImpetus said:
Same. I am happy that the tech community is moving there. I wrote up a tips and tricks for using Blue sky if anyone is interested. (Disclosure: this is my blog)

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I have given you a follow @dImpetus

I will give your blog post a read over the weekend.
 
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I have decided on passing on BlueSky.

If anyone wants to contact me, they can always find my bridged account on there and PM me, and I should receive the message on my Mastodon servers.
 
I've never actively participated in LinkedIn in terms of actively adding contacts etc. I have noted from a distance that they've slowly expanded their scope to become a bit more like Facebook, but when properly credentialed professionals are having inconvenient posts outright censored then for me it's definitely pointless to be bothered with it. I'm probably not the only one who wonders why LinkedIn even exists.

What I have noticed in the last few days is that there seems to be a bit of a PR push for BlueSky, including a piece on one of the news channels in Australia. The weirdest thing for me is that teh story that went to air sounded to be outright incorrect in some of the points it was making against Twitter. In this TechCrunch article on Yahoo Finance, it talks up BlueSky's growth as enough of a trajectory to catch up to Meta's Threads. Threads itself was launched to much hype and an explosive spurt of traffic, which then shrank back. Some attested this to people protecting their brands by registering account names so that IP squatters couldn't. But this still pales in comparison with the size of Twitter/X.

What I can point out about Twitter (it's kinda hard for me to refer to it as "X") is that the communications happening on it was somewhat separated from the Trump 49% / Kamala 51% polling narrative that was throughout the rest of the legacy media and the other socials. The resulting landslide victory to Trump (312 electoral college thinggys vs Kamala on 226) subsequently put everyone into shock ... except for the Twitter brigade. For whatever you might not like about Twitter, it does seem to be the one place where you're not forced to wear blinkers.

Andrew

PS. Greetings from over here in Australia.
 
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FWIW: I've been receiving notes from Bluesky users asking “when” I'll be over there.

As the saying goes “Never say never” — so let's just say I'll be surprised if “never is ever.”

I noted an article (I don't recall where) saying that all of the “standard” trolls, spammers, gadflies and wannabes had now cloned themselves and had shown up over on Bluesky. So it's just a matter of time before that “social network”, too, becomes a useless mess.

And this is going to be a problem anywhere and everywhere until placing something into someone's inbox is not free — and I believe that's the proper solution: A user on the Internet should be able to set a cost to the sender for sending them something. Anything. And that “micropayment” should be transferred from the sender's to the recipient's account when placing anything into the recipient's inbox. If the Internet user is receiving too much crap they can increase the cost to send them something as a means of reducing the incoming. And senders can set a maximum amount that they are willing to pay for the privilege of placing their communication into someone's inbox.

This doesn't have to be much money, but it needs to be non-zero — unless someone really wants to receive all of the crap on the Internet. Sender's would not be forced to setup a payment account, but without one — without the ability to pay a recipient to accept their communication — their audience would be limited to those recipients who had not established a non-zero "cost-to-receive."
 
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Regarding "FWIW: I've been receiving notes from Bluesky users asking “when” I'll be over there."

Looking again at the media articles that are popping up, I'm quite sure now that there is a bit of a campaign that has launched with not only promoting BlueSky but also casting shade on Twitter. Kinda what I had felt was happening based on what I had seen when I made my last comment.

If I had time it would be worth checking if those invites were genuine or the software had somehow gotten the ability to take advantage of the contacts list of members. Weirder things have happened in the past. But I just don't have the time for it.

Andrew
 
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I have a Bluesky account, but it is missing some basic functions that prevent me from finding it worth using.

  1. You cannot remove followers
  2. You cannot make your profile private
  3. Posts cannot be edited, you need to delete it and do it over again if you make a mistake
  4. No usable bookmark/save function​
 
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