Mister Blue Sky, blue sky, blue sky

@chef2002 on bluesky

 

@jawncangelosi

 

If you know my name, you know my Bluesky handle. If you don't, you don't. <shrug>

 

@sjresidentfelon.bsky.social

 

I didn’t think it through and wound up doing the same. If anybody DMs me here I’ll give it out. Or if you see a guy with a Kennesaw shirt following you, there’s an excellent chance it’s me.

 

Good question. And Bluesky's had a few bursts of signups like this, only to have everyone return to Twitter. But the election was confirmation Twitter is just going to keep getting worse and that people needed a real alternative. This is the smallest of sample sizes, but dozens of people who follow me on Twitter have migrated to Bluesky. If you can multiply that by millions of users, Bluesky has a chance.

 

I think Bluesky is sticking around. Threads had a big splash because of the Instagram tie but Threads is thoroughly awful. Bluesky is as close as we’re going to get to the golden age of Twitter and the majority of accounts I follow have migrated. There also seem to be rails in place to keep it from turning into a Twitter cesspool.

 

At least until fuck face buys it too.

 

I'm not a social media guy. I just looked: my last tweet was 2019; my last Facebook post was 2012.
I do like and use Instagram because I can look at and post pictures of fish and sunrises without people's commentary.

 

Migrating to Bluesky is great, but if the Elon zealots, who seem to be Trump zealous don't migrate, X remains a fox news twitter feed. The corporate masses, sports masses, Hollywood masses need to not only migrate, but shed X/Twitter.

 

It does feel like Twitter in 2006-2010, which feels nostalgic and fuzzy. But is that a good thing? I don’t know. Are we just re-creating the online cycle that led to X, or is this really a useful, fun place where Weird Twitter lives on?