Matt BlazeMy decision about whether to try Bluesky depends on what everyone else does. I just want to be where everyone else is, and not be around too many Nazis. My needs are simple.
What I *don't* want is 10 zillion social media du jour accounts.
nak@mattblaze something about one account to rule them all…
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@Nak @mattblaze This is where I had hope for Berners-Lee’s Inrupt, in which the data itself is owned by individuals who give permission for social networks to pick up or not. But it seems to not be going anywhere. Or maybe they sold out. It’s hard to tell from a quick assessment.
Dan Riley@Nak @mattblaze login with twitter oauth on all of them, what could go wrong?
verb (printfJess) 🦄@mattblaze It's kinda like Instant Messenger clients back in the 90s. We ended up with friends spread across Yahoo, Excite, AOL, MSN, ICQ, and others... Anytime there was something new happening, we had to repeat the same message over and over. Chat rooms made things easier but not by much because they were also separate social circles, and if you were offline, you missed the conversation entirely.
We're on the precipice of another change. And I'm curious to see what social media evolves into.
EvilKiru 🇮🇸 he/him@mattblaze I know what you mean, having joined 3 other new services, before I finally put in the time to find a Mastodon instance to join. I immediately gave up on 1 of them, was semi-active on 1 of them for a few months, gave up on the third (as in, I didn't bother to follow-up when I finally got an invite email), and now I'm only active over here.
Before the #TwitterTakeover I hadn't been active there for a very long time, but went back to observe the drama, and finally quit cold-turkey (as in, I haven't logged back in) after experiencing how much nicer Mastodon is.
PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyI think it depends on why you're on SocMed.
For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble, this is excellent.
For supporting yourself as an artist/creative, it is less good in terms of numbers, and because of hostility as opposed to support from randoms.
For maintaining a career in the public eye? Terrible, you earn the enmity of the media by being here, free from ads and popularity algorithms.
Everyone has to choose their own path.
And if Bluesky uses ads it will tolerate as many Nazis and bots as legally possible because that's the job of corporations.
I lay out an analysis of the economic drivers here:
https://mastodon.ie/@Homebrewandhacking/110270420198121286
My tolerance for such is zero but again these things vary.
PJ Coffey (@[email protected])
I've been reading and listening to stuff about how social media works. Axiom 1: Services must be paid for == There's no such thing as a free launch. Axiom 2: For profits always want more money. From 1, we know that some shrug their shoulders about surveillance capitalism and accept that ads pay for things. From 2, we know that more eyeballs on ads = more money, therefore more people = money = good 1/T #SocialMedia #Bluesky #AttentionEconomy #Bots #Fascism #SurveillanceCapitalism
Joost@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze "For good, thoughtful conversation outside of your normal bubble"
Honestly, i feel like this is only half true, at least for me.
I see a lot of good, thoughtful conversation on Mastodon, and it’s blissfully free from disruption by trolls or haters. But it actually feels quite a lot like being inside a bubble, at least politically: the cultural, ideological and geographical horizon seems fairly narrow.
@Homebrewandhacking @mattblaze I see plenty of good, thoughtful conversation on Twitter too, even now still (a question of following the right people). But it comes with pretty continuous disruption by trolling and hostility in comments from randos. On the flip side, the cultural-political-geographical horizon seems wider, as does the range of subjects that gets a critical mass of posts or knowledgeable users.
Pär Björklund@mattblaze same, I basically want an invite to bluesky to reserve my username in case it's the next big thing. Not really interested in using it for now
Norman Wilson@mattblaze With you on all counts.
Matt Sicker@mattblaze how many useless domain names do you own? 😁
Kevin McCurley@mattblaze I have over 500 inboxes on email. I have only a couple of outboxes.