Comment by jmward01
14 days ago
Completely aside from the cable discussion, I'm glad this was on bsky. I could finally follow the comments in the link again. I hope this trend continues.
14 days ago
Completely aside from the cable discussion, I'm glad this was on bsky. I could finally follow the comments in the link again. I hope this trend continues.
BlueSky has attained critical mass and it is the next generation of microblogging. We’re witnessing the long awaited dethroning of twitter and it will end up ceding the space like Reddit did.
Not sure if you're being serious, but Reddit gets FAR more traffic than Twitter. Twitter is #43 out of all the sites on the internet in terms of traffic. Reddit is #10. Bluesky is not even on the map yet.
Until users get disenchanted with it and move to the next thing....
I never got disenchanted with Twitter. It got boring. If it had stayed the same I’d still be on there complaining about it.
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… which is the way it should be. Users vote with their fingers and eyeballs.
That’s the whole point. These next gen protocols make it easy enough to move on to the next thing.
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Actually that bit I care less about.
Yeah dude. There will be a next thing.
“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
- Bruce Lee
What happened to Reddit? AFAIK, they're bigger than ever now.
Astroturfing and moderator controlled subreddits have ruined Reddit for me. /r/worldnews is one example of the latter.
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In any of the larger subreddits, the posts are heavily repost bots and the top comments stolen from the last time it was posted.
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I think some of the community will also move to substack
As an outsider, I've always associated Bluesky/Twitter with "volitile but potentially cutting-edge reporting" and followed it but with a grain of salt.
When I see an article on Substack I always assume the worst. The signal-to-noise ratio is lower on Medium and Substack than any other social platform I browse, which is a tragic indictment of where long-form blogging has gone.
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I mean, it's still a very small niche website of again, mostly tech related westerners. Twitter is much more diverse
> very small niche website of again, mostly tech related westerners
That's what they want. A social club with an overton window they like.
It's designed for mass userbase so it can feel like a big party that "everybody" is at. But once "everybody" includes their parents then the party is over.
Diverse is probably a stretch.
More like an echo chamber for the choir preachers.
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Nope. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It still seems to require JavaScript be enabled to render anything.
Here's an alternative frontend you can use that doesn't require javascript: https://blueviewer.pages.dev/view?actor=auonsson.bsky.social...