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Bluesky Might End Up Defeating Twitter Once and for All (slate.com)

submitted 2 days ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world -1 points 53 minutes ago

I wouldn't get too excited. Humans as a whole aren't particularly smart and it only takes a small percentage of bad actors and super dipshits to spread misinformation like a cancer no matter what platform you're on.

Our species wasn't prepared for the internet. We should be adding courses to public education teaching how to separate fact from fiction and how to find and utilize reliable sources, but instead we gleefully elected a party that ran on deconstructing the public education system.

Oops.

[–] RedFrank24@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure it will, and I don't really want it to. Twitter is a shithole in part because of the userbase. If Twitter dies, the users will move to Bluesky and make that shitty too. I'm already seeing porn bots appearing in my feeds with as small a userbase as there is!

[–] Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

That's valid, luckily, Threads seems to be taking all the alt right extremists, Mastodon is taking all the programmers, and Bluesky is taking all the furries and LGBTQ

[–] Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

And I'll be right there with Bluesky, it's so much better on every issue, significantly fewer bots, no ads, no premium version, and no AI

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 20 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Yet. Mind you, they are VC-backed. Eventually they will enshittify it.

[–] Lila_Uraraka@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I have never heard of this VC before. What is it? /gen

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

Crypto bros 🫡

[–] ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

then stay at twitter 🤷‍♂️ for now blue sky is many people's choice for a reason.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

That’s really not the only possible move

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing lasts forever. But for now, it's decent enough.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

Sure. On the other hand, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to make a new home at a platform with an investment from crypto bros, that will eventually become Twitter/X 2.0. https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (3 children)

X will likely merge with TruthSocial as the defacto Conservative/Right-wing social media site (named something dumb like "XTruthXSocialX"), while BlueSky will become the defacto Liberal social media site.

[–] cable@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Can you imagine taking X (formerly Twitter) public again with a merger with $DJT? Holy smokes.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Don't jinx it.

Especially not if they somehow coincidentally get some government funding.

[–] cable@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

If anything they'll be able to do it, as well as bringing up some already half-dead stocks back to life and fuck some hedge funds that thought they hit the jackpot... call it the M&A era of America

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think I used to play Halo 3 with that guy

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh yea, he never turned off his mic. Pretty sure I heard his mom come down with tang and Oreos and he cussed her out

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[–] account_93@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (7 children)

99% of my Feed on Bluesky was just people saying they've left Twitter for Bluesky. No amount of suggest less of this helped.

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah thats how it was here after the reddit fiasco.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 9 points 20 hours ago

It has improved here though, thank Jeebus.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

happens on every "new" social media platform that is similar to another social media platform. Was all over Lemmy when people were "boycotting" reddit...course most went right back to reddit when the boycotting was over.

[–] hogmomma@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Can't tell you how many "I'm moving to Google+" posts I saw back in the day. I wonder how that panned out for them...

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[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tbf, were you on lemmy last summer?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or on Reddit after everybody left Digg

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Haha there is a gigantic wave of people switching over from twitter right now, that's just what is on people's minds. The conversation will move on soon enough.

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[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Why people cannot see that the core problem of twitter is not that it got bought by the asshole billionaire. It's that the asshole billionaire was able to buy it.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Surely that could never happen again though! /s

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[–] aLaStOr_MoOdY47@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's Bluesky?

[–] capital@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

Looking like it’s about time lmgtfy to make a comeback.

[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's the hot new non-billionaire controlled social media app for the 2020s: https://bsky.app/

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Non-billionaire controlled so far. It's a public benefit corporation, which is vulnerable to being Altmaned. Once it becomes valuable money will find a way.

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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not billionaire owned, but a bunch of VC firms led by one called Blockchain Capital already put a 15million USD bridle on them

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2024-series-a

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[–] geography082@lemm.ee 55 points 1 day ago (28 children)

It should be Mastodon. This is the same shit with a different name

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I wish some entrepreneur had instead created an amazing fucking Mastodon instance and put all that marketing and engineering dollar into the platform. But you can’t own Mastodon so you can’t ever sell Mastodon so those types of folks will never invest in Mastodon. We could just say “fuck ‘em” but they have done a serious job of monopolizing the time of all the talented people who know how to make something like this go.

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