There seems to be a switch from X to Bluesky going on.
Thoughts on Bluesky?
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Itās pretty great. The atmosphere on the site is very positive, and itās pretty close to feature parody with Twitter. Many of the creators I follow are on there. The devs are working on a better discover feed and community notes, so Iām definitely interested in the future of this project
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I love feature parody. Itās my favorite kind of feature. The kind where BlueSky clowns Twitter.
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I really like Bluesky, so far. Only social media I am truly using.
Source code available as well:
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Mastodon.
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Mastodon is great but IMO it is too much an echo buble. They are only left-wing, progressive, people. Not saying is bad but I am switching to BlueSky because there I can have a closer tl reality view.
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I will admit that I donāt have any idea what left-wing, right-wing, and centrists mean, and Iām glad that this is the case. I donāt want to waste my headspace on such nonsense.
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Is it actually decentralized? If not, I donāt really see the point in promoting in over X (the incumbent) or Mastodon (federalized) and Nostr (decentralized).
I just havenāt found a reason to use any of these twitter like services in a meaningful way other then to generate rss feeds for my feeder app. X frontends such as xcancel (nitter instance) seem to be the best in that regard.
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Agree 100%. The world happens on Twitter, thereās no reason to use anything else, unless for following any particular account you want to follow thatās only there.
Use nitter instances, squawker with a new account using an Adguard temp email, etc
The only reason for using anything else is oddly enough the exact reason most people use them. Not for privacy, but for being protected from seeing opposite opinions. If youāre a grown person who needs your safe space, thereās no lack of options: Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, Lemmy, Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok, and probably Bluesky as well. Even Gmail will spam-mark though crime as well.
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Hopefully alternative ID servers will leave beta soon
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Am I the only one who use twitter like just some sort of a convenient feed reader?
I would like to migrate though to take some distance with Musk but I didnāt like Mastodon when I tried it and Bluesky is not enough populated yet.
never been any different in the past
As with any social network you need to put some effort into choosing a few INTERESTING people to follow, maybe look at whoās following those and pick a few more ā¦ and your discovery stream will become useful.
Itās always been like this, to be honest. But the format itself does not induce conversation.
Ohh you beat me to it.
The best place for some balanced conversation is Reddit on the less biased subs. On the night of the US elections, for example, subs like MapPorn were where youād have to go for some balanced, insightful conversations.
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Have you tried using a News Aggregator instead? It basically functions as your own customized feed reader and allows you to not be stuck with just twitter feeds.
I personally use Feeder but there are multiple good options.
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I feel like this is not true anymore? Hard to say since being private (so no real numbers), but lots of companies and users stopped using it. There hasnāt been a real switch (like what happened to digg) because the users switched to many different sites instead of just one (threads, mastodon, lemmy, now bluesky, etc.).
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More and more big players are leaving Shitter:
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The reason why Twitter was renamed to X is because everyone wants to press X to doubt when Elon promises something like full self-driving.
I think itās kinda of weird to complain about the content of an algorithmic feed when you donāt give the feed anything to work with. Without that itās probably just showing what is āviralā at this particularly point in time.
My āDiscoverā feed shows me mostly interesting posts/people.
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