Mister Blue Sky, blue sky, blue sky

[Chef2]

@chef2002 on bluesky

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

@jawncangelosi

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

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

 

[maumann]

@sjresidentfelon.bsky.social

 

[dixiehack]

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

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.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

So, is this thing going to be just like Threads or whatever else has popped up wand never really took off? It looks good. I don't want to set something up that's just another flash in the pan. It seems to me something could put twitter out of business, but it's going to take people/organizations to quit twitter cold turkey and drive traffic there.

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.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

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.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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 fork face buys it too.

 

[Driftwood]

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.

 

[tea and ease]

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.

 

[playthrough]

So, is this thing going to be just like Threads or whatever else has popped up wand never really took off? It looks good. I don't want to set something up that's just another flash in the pan. It seems to me something could put twitter out of business, but it's going to take people/organizations to quit twitter cold turkey and drive traffic there.

When my shop starts aggregating Bluesky stuff (as much as I hate the aggregation game), then I'll know the tides will have shifted. But I suspect that isn't close to happening yet.

 

[Hermes]

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?