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Have people really forgotten about RSS and due dilligence ?
Do you really think that model is not coming to Mastadon and BlueSky? They have to make money at some point and they certainly are not doing it now. Same tried and true business plan as the other tech companies who do not make anything. Give it away with as little noise (ads) as possible. When there is traction start pushing more noise and accepting money for better exposure. I would guess they are paying some people to use their service (endorse) so the whole experience is a bunch of nothing.
Mastodon is federated and isn't owned by any particular company or person/people. Anyone, anywhere, can start a Mastodon server, without any form of payment or permission. The server software is open-source.
They are also a non-profit, so no, they don't need to "make money".
GitHub - mastodon/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community - mastodon/mastodon
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Even if that accurately described current Twitter/X, hearing the "political spectrum" is not what many of us are looking for. My old Twitter feed was highly cultivated to give me a combination of academic/humor/arts/sports content that never failed to be genuinely interesting. I learned something every time I logged onto Twitter. And needless to say, someone else could cultivate their feed to be entirely different.
Now, it's about people sniping with each other, usually about hot-button topics that are divisive but often not terribly important, and almost never discussed thoughtfully. Yes, there is a "political spectrum" component to all of that, but only in the basest and most superficial way imaginable.
If Jack's new service (or anyone's, really) can capture what once made Twitter what it was, it will be a winner.
Sadly, I agree. Not sad that I agree with you, but sad that it is a true statement.
Not only was the "invite-only" phase too long and too restrictive, but those on twitter with a large number of followers who also have Bluesky accounts are still tweeting. It those accounts don't switch over to Bluesky exclusively, then there will be no reason for people to sign up on Bluesky.
I am totally stealing this, a perfect encapsulation if I ever there was one
Million times better than prioritizing based on who the moderators agreed with, and worst of all, censoring people who they disagreed with. Especially when the moderators all had the same opinions.
Atleast now anyone is free to pay the same equal fee. And importantly, the blue tick does not bump up individual posts. It only bumps up replies. Earlier it was the same, just that the blue tick was reserved for celebrities a small set of moderators deemed important. Now’s it’s open to all who likes to actively participate in the forum.
Outside of blue tick, paying to get prioritized is called advertising and Twitter always did it.
People who are used to censoring the opposing opinions are now mad. And I get it.
Don't worry. A certain someone will soon release a smelly one and trigger a new eXodus. It's just a matter of time.
When I read "moderation", I was out. So the network is decentralised, but still moderated? Also it still seems they want to create revenue. We so not need another network that wants to make money.
Liking and engaging with posts you want to see will naturally show more of that kind of content on X. Also you can also switch from “For You” to “following” tab
But usually people don’t do that because they like to see those content, though they say otherwise. and that’s why they get prioritized by the algorithm.
Whatever Jack(or anyone else) is building does not have enough content to begin with. You can always fine tune X to whatever you want to see as there is so much content, provided that’s really what you want to see.
I'm mad because Longer deleted the API and in one fell swoop destroyed the ability to do any Social Science research =(.
What I like about Bluesky (and Mastodon and Thread), is that you don't need an account to casually read someones posts. It's one of the reasons why I'd appreciate it if more accounts move away from x or at least cross-post.
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Sorry you feel that way. I rarely see community notes, and when I do, it’s in a screenshot of people making fun of Elon for saying something insane — well after millions have already seen and engaged with the post.
I mean, aha, just kidding! X is the best! I love loading up the discover tab only for a murder video to be front and center!
Awesome news, maybe people will actually use Bluesky for more than a couple of days before forgetting about it.
(at this point, I think Threads is probably the only real competition Twitter has, and the gap between Twitter and Threads in terms of usage is still massive)
(at this point, I think Threads is probably the only real competition Twitter has, and the gap between Twitter and Threads in terms of usage is still massive)
They want a phone number to sign up. That’s static info directly tied to you. Not gonna do that anymore.
Threads is meta. Not gonna do that. I’ll stick with the hellhole I know.Awesome news, maybe people will actually use Bluesky for more than a couple of days before forgetting about it.
(at this point, I think Threads is probably the only real competition Twitter has, and the gap between Twitter and Threads in terms of usage is still massive)
They've clearly established their socio-political base by going too long with the invites. Now that it's open to all, the rest should go ahead and join just to balance out the heavily one-sided ideologies that are pervasive throughout their platform.
Since the iPhone supports dual SIM, sign up for a free trial mobile account (Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile, Verizon, Mint Mobile, Visible, US Mobile, etc) and then sign up for Bluesky using temporary trial number
I really wonder how successful it will be at this point, besides attracting bots. I was sitting on five invite codes for months that nobody wanted, no matter how much I offered.
Well, it’s still better than using anything under Elon’s watch, that’s for sure
Well, it’s still better than using anything under Elon’s watch, that’s for sure
Yeah, with Andrew Tate there, they have both sides of the “should you build a business sex-trafficking minors, yes or no” controversy represented.
Bluesky is keeping violating its purpose of being a decentralised platform by always encouraging people signing up their own bsky.social server. People just try but not really use it simply because they hate X. There is already the real decentralised platform called Mastodon.