exactly. we should learn from why the mastodon migration didnt work out, and this topdown view has a lot to do with it. First come the young people with cultural capital ('cool'), and only then will Serious People (journa/politicians et all) follow RE:
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Loukas Christodoulou (@loukas.bsky.social)
I think new networks are far more likely to thrive and attract cultural workers (and hence have a political impact) only after lots of ordinary you...
always fun to log back into bluesky and see that people have opened up the abyss overnight RE:
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screenshot this πŸ“Έ [bot] (@screenshotthis.dev)
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some 2 months ago when firehose activity indicated 1.1m MAU, Rose said bluesky had 2m MAU, which included people without firehose activity (logging in but not liking/posting/following). brazil has a significantly higher posting rate (50% instead of ~30% according to paul), (cont) RE:
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Samuel (@samuel.fm)
presumably the 2M figure comes from "any sort of firehose activity" i.e. liking at least one post, so it's still an undercount
9 million bluesky accounts https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreihbecdoztkvvp56rlzzrxdmz3p4hjulmp37xbxf5vnfeqdqevplgu
om my god, how did threads manage to fuck up their community this badly already RE:
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Ben Werdmuller (@werd.io)
By secretly paying some creators to post on Threads, Meta is undermining trust in everyone's motivations. Suddenly everyone is assumed to be "engag...
more people should subscribe to the more esoteric labelers to get a bit of a glimpse of how strange, chaotic and funny the next generation of social platforms are RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
ai doomer king ed zitron got labeled with 'ai banner' by the anti-ai labeler πŸ’€πŸ’€ i love the chaos of 3rd party labelers lmao
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ai doomer king ed zitron got labeled with 'ai banner' by the anti-ai labeler πŸ’€πŸ’€ i love the chaos of 3rd party labelers lmao https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreidriop6i4dwndoh67nooeagdxnmwvvptf6wttp6ca6de7s75z63oq
the complete lack of engagement the official EC account gets on bluesky (especially in contrast with their pretty good engagement # on mastodon) is a pretty clear indication of the Balkanization of social networks that is going on RE:
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European Commission (@ec.europa.eu)
We welcome the important work done by the 29 members of the Strategic Dialogue and the constructive engagement they have shown throughout the entir...
A lotta yall still dont get it. you can use multiple slurps on a single relay RE:
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Rudy wants revolution. (@rude1.blacksky.team)
No one ever brings up the centralized slurp power of the bsky relay. How bsky gets to decide who can and can’t get slurped out here /s
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i think over time the term 'fediverse' will start to include bluesky, for the simple reason that it makes everyone mad: - activitypub people for recognising a different protocol - atproto people because they want to push 'ATmosphere' instead - people with a sense of language because its a bad name