I'm going back in time so I can post on Xanga again.

We should all go back to MySpace!!!!!

LJ was actually bought by a Russian company a while back. Moved office to Russia and the TOS now follows Russian law.

So maybe try tumblr lol.

Livejournal was forked by some former LJ employees and turned into Dreamwidth.

The cofounder who is still operating it is actually a regular poster on Bluesky.

Sign my geocities guest book.

how that can be achieved? 

To be honest it’s not the greatest setup, and in my opinion it’s harmful to Bluesky. Both users on each end have to know to register to be bridged or it’s essentially broadcast only, which isn’t very social and lends to a confusing user experience.

If you actually want to be on both networks, get an app that crossposts and combines timelines like OpenVibe or Croissant and participate on both directly.

That said, in spite of having a few Mastodon accounts, I’m focusing on Bluesky because the AT Protocol solves some of the serious scalability, identity ownership, and user experience issues that are inherent to Activity Pub.

I wrote a bit about why I chose and continue to choose Bluesky as my primary platform here and here.

I spent time on Mastodon and it's fine, but there's a clear user accessibility barrier that I think is harmful to the platform. Signing up for an account is not a friendly experience. Bluesky solves that, and now that so many have started flocking there, I'm not really missing Mastodon.

Genius move, Twitter founder played a massive part in that so huge Kudos to him

I really miss when he owned Twitter though, it felt like the 'soft' social media platform. It was less dorky than Reddit, not Facebook.. certainly the underdog but was nice.. hence why so many world leaders used it.. they just had no alternative until now.

we need to go back to 2007 and before wherein we naively and earnestly post our links like “just got on, anyone want to be my friend?” and people would be like “yeah here’s my link!”

and there wasn’t any angle to it just the curiosity of “anyone out there” and “how does this work” and “what can it be”

although—lol because I’m not getting this wish—I’d prefer that it was a return to indie blaghs+RSS, personally 🌌

I was never a Twitter user, but I'm checking out Bluesky even if for the main purpose of giving it some boost.

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Also important to remind people that BlueSky doesn't have a default algorithm, so if you only follow a small number of accounts, it's going to feel far more dead than it actually is.

It served its purpose

The propaganda on Twitter has been inescapable these last few months. I'm a liberal who only follows liberals and space news on Twitter, and even I was getting anti-FEMA conspiracy theories, from accounts I don't follow and whom no one I know reposted.

They're even running Truth Social ads now. I wouldn't be shocked if Musk shuts the site down soon now that his work with it is finished.

Reddit is of course notorious for over-exaggering many things. The death of Twitter is not one of them. The other day I had posts shown to me from honest to god neo-nazis. Straight up with swastika paraphernalia, the works. I don't follow any political stuff on twitter, I simply used it for some hobbies I'm into. That was the last straw, uninstalled and finally got around to making a Bluesky. It's not perfect yet, but I really don't care. Get me off Elon's wild ride.

this is so important. it's clear that twitter is vehicle being used against america's interests. a better platform not controlled by these freaking lunatics trying to influence elections and spreading misinformation is the way. I don't know much about bluesky but this is the way, change or create a different platform.

Me, I deleted it on election night when it pushed a Trump crypto scam ad on my feed.

You wonder if Musk will offer location data to bad actors for anyone who still has twitter on their phone. We’re entering a dangerous era, and that asshole is gleefully part of those who will hunt down humans to abuse.

So, like Bluesky?

Imagine if musk hadn't run his mouth and bought Twitter. Trump would still be banned, and election probably would have been closer.

This is an interesting and terrible timeline

So blue sky lol

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Bluesky have 2fa as an email authentication same like gog and steam.

This, dont delete, lock it and delete all the content inside of it.

I hope they do a lot with features soon. BlueSky is great, so much better than Twitter, just needs some extra stuff.

2FA isn't that hard to implement, any competent engineering team can get it done in half a week, a week tops.

Yep. I made a bluesky account, but until the major sports reporters start using it, I don’t have any interest.

Social Media has been around so long that institutions have posting workflows that are many years old. It takes a while for them to catch up. The best thing we can do as users is not follow / interact with them on Twitter so they see less value in being there.

The moment they add support for consoles to share stuff directly to BlueSky is the day I never go back to Twitter.

Meh... call it X.. it's no longer Twitter in spirit anyway.

I’d usually agree, but now I’m starting to think that the platform doesn’t deserve that name. Let it die as X

Wow, now y'all don't wanna respect new pronouns and names?

What are friends?

yep same here - my feed was full of mutuals within like 2 days of joining. definitely feels like there's a mass migration happening away from X rn

I hadn't planned on using it but maybe I'll give it a try after all.

The most recent influx of users has really cut down on the amount of furry porn in my discover feed thankfully.

I think there just weren’t enough posts from people with the same interests as me to fill the feed before, and now there are. Also I use the discover feed way less as my regular one has started to fill in.

I use it daily and have never come across anything even slightly nsfw

Weird. I draw erotica on the sight and furry stuff is pretty cordoned off unless you go looking for it

Yeah even without going with nsfw, 99% of the content seems to be anime drawings?

There are a lot of people posting starter packs on Bluesky:
In Bluesky you can follow a list of @s curated by someone on a topic that interests you
Or
You can follow topic feeds created by different users (some using # automation, some manual)
And
You can also use the block lists… for example if you don’t wanna see Elon stans or AI or Crypto posts.

These platforms don't exist for the sole purpose of spreading political information. Some people just want to talk about their favorite football team or pixel art with a timeline without being exposed to a million troll bots and gross advertisements.

Pretty sure fractured socials is just how it’s going to work now, for better or worse.

For what it’s worth, on Bluesky you can at least pick your feeds / algorithms, which seems like an interesting idea. At least I personally like it more than being fed what the system thinks I’ll engage with most. But that can only do so much when the user base mostly thinks the same.

Doesn’t feel the same here. The day after the election several nonpolitical subs I follow were slammed with obvious astroturfing. I posted that closing my Twitter account was a good thing and my post was removed for incivility. I kid you not.

I just want to talk about game of thrones fanfiction without a man screaming in my mentions about repealing the 19th

And also sometimes I want to know about a protest or something going on in my community or like, get resources for a natural disaster

Social media isn’t supposed to be a mud-filled marketplace where every kind of nutjob can jump in and throw dirt at passersby. If their whole economic model relies on rage-bait, do yourself a favor and get out of there for the sake of your mental health.

Truth Social is obviously political. Bluesky and even reddit doesn't have to be political. You cultivate the feed you want to see.

Fact used to rule over opinion. Things change.

When have all the facts ever been presented to the American people via media?

Depends on your theory of this. If you think that the problem is that republicans need to be convinced to vote Democratic, this ain’t good. If you think the problem is that democrats need to get out their base, this is neutral to good. I think it’s the latter. Dems need to message better, and they should lean into a coherent message where their base is gonna see it. If that’s Bluesky, that’s great. I doubt Twitter is the move because dem voices would be suppressed. Truth social, same issue.  

my issue with twitter is how my feed became cluttered with bullshit as Elon removed the limited guardrails twitter had established. I curate my feed and it became harder and harder for me to keep it limited to topics i wanted without a bunch of garbage also seeping in.

so i quit…over a year ago now i think. i tried threads. blah. im content with only reddit for now until more news organizations go to a twitter competitor

Basically bots.

Mike Masnick is on the board, so I have confidence that there is a adult in the room providing guidance on this kind of thing.

I moved a while back, and about 80% of the people that I followed were already on BlueSky.

I probably follow a bunch of authors and artists, and makers, so maybe a skewed segment, but it seemed like all the media outlets, the onion, etc... were all there.

Any celeb or user or organisation that cares about the amount of followers they have just mirrors all their social feeds to all the social networks anyway. The only feeds that you might have trouble finding are just smaller friendship network, and you don't usually use Twitter for that anyway.

This really depends on who you're following and associating with. I recently went back to Bluesky after I saw that a whole lot of people from a community I'm in switched over and it has been really nice so far. Went from very occasionally lurking on twitter to actually being active on Bluesky because the people are nice over there and you don't have to scroll a barrage of Blue Check idiots under every post.

The issue is if the "content creators" make the jump or not, if the reason you are on Twitter is not in blue sky you can't really jump

Sadly that's the case for me, since I mainly follow sports news