FWIW, I passed 80k followers here today. On Twitter I never had more than 55k. And the engagement here has been way better since early on when I had way fewer followers. If you put effort in here, you'll get more out of it. RE:
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Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly)
Asked a famous writer why he is still on Twitter, and the reply was "90 thousand people are still here, following me. When my numbers near 90K on T...
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Folks, beware of invading trolls. Report them, block them, use blocklists. Yelling at them is pointless. It's what they want.
Terrible fucking people. Just the absolute worst people who think this shit is funny. [www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...](
ISD
"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online
Following the US presidential election, online hate speech and harassment toward women surged, with some users calling to limit women’s rights.
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I know a lot of people have been asking for a thread composer, and now it's here. RE:
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Bluesky (@bsky.app)
πŸ“’Β App Version 1.93 is rolling out now (1/5) This release includes the thread composer, improved tooling for adding content warnings to your ow...
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For folks getting started on Bluesky and trying to understand some of the (often very cool) affordances like feeds and labelers, there's some good stuff here. RE:
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Nemes Content (@nemescontent.bsky.social)
Okay I've posted a write as blog from the video I've been working on. I wanted to post the video before I left twitter but that's not happening. pl...
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America is divided, but much of Europe has a pretty clear picture of who Trump is. [europeelects.eu/2024/11/04/u...](
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U.S. Election: Europeans Would Vote for Harris if They Couldβ€”but There’s a Wide Gulf Between East and West - Europe Elects
The United States elects a new president on Tuesday 5 November. The outcome, of course, interests also elsewhere in the world due to the resulting ...
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Again, there's an important tradeoff here. The more people *need* to understand the infrastructure and how it is decentralized, the *less* usable the system is for non-techie users. RE:
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NaNdi (@nandi.latha.org)
The amount of people saying it's not decentralized because they don't understand the infrastructure is kinda high...
Getting mixed messages on my feed today. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiaob6fuggiutubfykmmfryhdnbqnqap7xogj7qfldcq4wu25wb6n4
Non-tech people don't need to worry or understand this, but for more tech-minded people, the more you look at ATprotocol, the more you realize how clever it is in basically building a truly *early web* "oh wow, I can build all sorts of shit on this" kind of protocol, and what that can enable. RE:
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dan (@danabra.mov)
atproto aha moments: - you can host your data - it's just json - it's typed but any app dev can invent those types - records have URIs - records a...
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Some closure regarding the fans who got booted last night. They were originally told they could return tonight, but then told they could not. Instead: https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreifsbbdzvmtvygbpyqhlw3bilgjriupfu5snssxcnlcrx7qrzbtta4