So I've had Bluesky for a couple of days. Some observations (and I'm going to use an actual list. If Mastodon doesn't render it, complain to Gargron)...
- There is a significant overlap between there and here in terms of users
- Of the non overlapping parts, we think they're all weird crypto nerds and they think we're all weird tech nerds
- I haven't actually seen any crypto nerds there
- You get followed by random people all the time
- They think we have sticks up our arses to the extent that "you aren't allowed to say anything on Mastodon(SIC); it's like if social media had an HOA"
- They think we have no sense of humour
- Their perception of us is, I think, inaccurate
- Our perception of them is, I think, inaccurate
- It feels a lot like Twitter
- If their perception of us was accurate, I would have a hundred angry replies to this because I said, "Twitter", and haven't content warned anything.
- They're living in a kind of antebellum age of innocence there, and it's not clear how they're going to manage when the worst people in the world turn up
Anyway, it's going to be interesting, for sure.
And like I said, if this looks like arse on Mastodon, complain to Gargron
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Demon Queen Lucretia, Mark Turner, clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛, Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:, Eldeberen, jascha and keithzg like this.
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Sarah Brown
in reply to System IV, Building K • •@System IV, Building K An indication of significant prowess in debating is being able to win a position that you do not believe in.
I do not posses such prowess, and therefore am, regretfully, unable to change your mind 😉
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •David Gerard
in reply to System IV, Building K • • •Marc
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •That's why I never went to law school.
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Lee Fife
in reply to System IV, Building K • • •I definitely prefer tech nerds to crypto peddlers. So no argument there.
But, I do have to say that the bits of chiding and tone policing I've received haven't felt like attempts at "earnest help" or raising the level of conversation. They've felt like messages that I'm not welcome. Which may or may not be what was intended.
Happily there hasn't been very much of that aimed directly at me, although it makes me pretty uncomfortable when I see it aimed at others. Not sure I've seen any of it that I'd call actual attempts to help. Maybe the only exception is the frequent requests to use Alt Text on images. Those are rarely personal or directed at specific posts and instead just trying to strengthen a good cultural norm.
flere-imsaho
in reply to System IV, Building K • • •clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •@Sarah Brown I expect the crypto nerds to be at nostr, not bluesky. Have you checked that out as well?
(I have checked out neither, I'm a long-time fedizen content with my lot)
Sarah Brown
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Unknown parent • • •Antti Peltola
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in reply to Antti Peltola • •@Antti Peltola Not all of the crypto people are scammers.
Some of them are scammers' marks.
Christopher Mims
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Stefan Monnier
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Side note: I don't know about other people here, but I don't have an inaccurate "perception of them" because I have simply no "perception of them". I stay away from Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook/Bluesky/TikTok/WhatsApp/... because they are centralized, under the control of a company that tries to make money from their "free" service.
I see no reason to presume their users are anything but normal people.
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻
Unknown parent • • •@neilasaurus @goodthinking People don't use social media because they care about computers. Computers are a way to use social media. Why would they want to hang out where people talk about stuff they find boring?
The vast majority of people in the world have no interest in how cars work, they just use them. Imagine if every time you went to the market there was some weirdy beardy telling you your overhead cam was frotzed and you're a bad person because of it.
Brian Clark
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in reply to Brian Clark • •Madagascar_Sky
in reply to Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 • • •@mikej @neilasaurus @goodthinking
I mean, it has to be said sometime, right? I know it's annoying but if the overhead cam being frotzed was causing excess CO2 emissions and you just did not care, that chiding would be warranted.
The chiding here, be nice and follow the rules of the community, is part of the solution to the melting world outside. If you don't follow the rules and it leads to the world ending, you deserve that chiding. Not a one-to-one, but sounds like #DontLookUp .
Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻
in reply to Madagascar_Sky • • •The computer experts that you are supposed to be grateful to have here are not telling you not to use a computer either.
Wraithe
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Wow, so I checked this post on like 7 different Mastodon iOS apps and only ONE rendered this post correctly: Tusker
@tusker
A couple of them wouldn’t even display the post and the others showed it as a wall of text.
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in reply to Wraithe • •Wraithe
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Tusker
in reply to Wraithe • • •@Wraithe Tusky and Tusker are indeed different—Tusky is an Android app, and mine is iOS
And Tusker does support displaying lists. Most apps only support a very limited set of formatting options—and lists are not usually among them
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •Well that’s a shame. I do wanna try out friendica and an iOS client would be nice.
Sarah Brown
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in reply to Sarah Brown • •Three views:
Web interface, Mona, and Relatica
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in reply to clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 • • •Steve Williams
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •‘antebellum age of innocence’
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Steve Williams
in reply to Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 • • •@mikej @neilasaurus @goodthinking That’s a double overhead cam shaft wankel rotary car analogy you got running there, bud.
Nice🫡
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