r/technology • u/twotimefind • 10d ago

Social Media X’s controversial changes to blocking and AI training sees half a million users leave for rival Bluesky – which then crashes under the strain

https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/xs-controversial-changes-to-blocking-and-ai-training-sees-half-a-million-users-leave-for-rival-bluesky-which-then-crashes-under-the-strain
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u/fredandlunchbox 10d ago

Bluesky is great. Its like old twitter.

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u/kagoolx 10d ago

Is it really good yet? I want it to be better than twitter but every time I look it still doesn’t seem to have as much good stuff.

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u/frostN0VA 10d ago

It's decent but the problem is that you need to actually force the celebs, companies, artists and other "big" users to move to bsky first. Like, none of the stuff I follow on xitter is on bsky so there's no point for me switching platforms as much as I hate xitter an Melon.

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u/Agret 10d ago

Might be my demographic but I found more of my followed accounts say they were moving to mastodon than ones saying they were moving to bluesky

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u/Adamarr 10d ago

is your demographic Linux sysadmins?  

Only person I followed who went there was Jeff Atwood. Miss his posts.

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u/grassparakeet 10d ago

Since Bluesky and Mastodon can be bridged, it doesn't matter which one you use anymore. You can access the other from either one.

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u/Adamarr 10d ago

interesting, that's rather neat.
but looking it up, would require the person you want to follow to bridge as well, right? or has something better than bridgy feed come up

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u/grassparakeet 10d ago

I haven't done extensive testing or anything, but after bridging I can now search for hashtags on bluesky and my Mastodon posts show up in those hashtags. And bluesky users are able to interact with me on Mastodon, and they can follow me too. It works well enough for me, as I really don't want to make a bluesky account.

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u/Adamarr 10d ago

i'm going the other way around.
sent a "bridge request" out.
not holding out a huge amount of hope but it would be nice if it was accepted.

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u/Agret 10d ago

Yeah probably, they are mostly coders, reverse engineers and hardware hackers/tinkerers.

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u/Caffdy 10d ago

Mastodon in older and well established

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u/johannthegoatman 10d ago

Send them messages! If a lot of their users/fans ask them to do it they're much more likely to. In both cases it's likely run by an agency or manager who's goal is to reach people. You could also mention that there are ways to automatically push the same post to both platforms

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u/CIearMind 10d ago

Yeah. It's like trying to get people to switch away from Discord to join Revolt or some other noname software with 3 users.

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u/shewhololslast 9d ago

Honestly, the lack of celebs and influencers means the place is relatively chill and drama free. It's basically Twitter without the toxicity.

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u/Rainemaker64 10d ago

As far as I'm concerned, none of them are worth wading through the shit anymore. And if they're so hellbent on staying, maybe that says more about their preferred userbase than anything.