The main problem with BLUESKY is that it’s the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here’s the first 10 things in my feed:
- Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
- A picture of black hole (which is great!)
- Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Self Described “transfem lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it’s creepy AF.
- Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
- Science / Astronomy content
- Video Game Post
- Self Described “#1 Gayest Lesbian” screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
- Another eye-roller “I am soooo depressed” meme.
- Boring US Political schlock defending Dr. Fauchi
So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I “fix” that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.
I registered and I felt the same as you. Not worth my time.
Subscriptionwall.
Same as in subscribe-to-download sites or create-account-to-see-link forums: Do they want dead accounts that much?
I’m surprised that the article doesn’t mention Misskey. It’s a Federated platform that connects with Mastodon and the like, and has close to a million users. After Mastodon it’s the most active platform in the Fediverse, and owes most of its popularity to Japanese users.
Seems to be mainly because Bluesky is just a better user experience.
Changes in terms of service regarding AI (artificial intelligence), changes in the block feature and the presence of so many bot-like ‘impression zombie’ accounts are viewed negatively by Japanese users
But, X is still incredibly important in Japan and Bluesky isnt a serious threat to it culturally right now.
X is still a major, major news source for Japanese users, so it really won’t slow down anytime soon. Newer platforms like Threads or Bluesky really don’t have any meaningful adoption or use for brand marketing in Japan — yet
Remember kids, Jack Dorsey still owns BLUESKY, and if anyone is trying to tell you he doesn’t, they’re lying.
Dorsey is THE founder of BLUESKY, and is it’s largest shareholder, even though he is no longer on the board, and went through the theater of closing his BLUESKY account, he will have the say in pretty much everything, not the least of which, which fascist Elon Musk clone, BLUESKY is sold to, when of course it eventually it will be.
Fool me once.
Bluesky has exactly the same monetization and profitability issues twitter did, if anyone tries to tell you differently they’re lying. Sooner or later Bluesky will fatten a sufficient crop of highly engaged users and run out of venture capital runway and be forced to look for someone to buy the platform. There’s no way around this.
yep
Maybe Jack will sell bluesky to elon again for 50b and create another network called “freebird”, lol
The ultimate grift
Then definitely get sued by the washed up people still touring as Lynyrd Skynyrd even though none of them are original members
Do you have a source for the “largest shareholder” thing? I’m having a hard time finding anything about that.
This user is spamming the same comments about this on every post about Bluesky and their sources are “trust me bro I hate Jack”
that’s right, you absolutely are having a hard time finding ANYTHING at all about the ownership of BLUESKY, only that it was incorporated. zero on it’s shareholders, zero on Dorsey’s transfer of private stock/equity. absolutely nothing at all.
Holy crap, that was a hard pivot. Is your neck OK?
I mean, Bluesky is a private company, it seems to be incorporated in Delaware as a PBC and they claim it is owned by members of Bluesky itself. It’s unclear if that means Dorsey divested from it when he left the board or not, and since they’re not a public company they don’t have an obligation to say. You know as much about Bluesky as you do about Valve or Ikea.
I don’t actively support them or root for them, but it’s not a particularly huge mystery, and my paticipation on it doesn’t imply my moral support to their board members (who are public and known) or their investors.
Most of the anecdotal stuff I see online says their current CEO is the largest owner. That said, you claim it’s Jack. I’m just curious about where you heard that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jack Dorsey still owns BLUESKY, and if anyone is trying to tell you he doesn’t, they’re lying.
But Mr Dorsey is no longer part of the team behind it, having stepped down from the board in May 2024. He deleted his account altogether in September. It is now run and predominantly owned by chief executive Jay Graber as a US public benefit corporation.
“It is now run and predominantly owned by chief executive Jay Graber as a US public benefit corporation.”
It’s that predominantly that’s the tell. The Guardian has no more idea who owns which and how many shares as anyone else, because it’s a privately held corporation. Yeah, i’m pretty sure, and when they go public, we’ll all be positive of it. If Dorsey wasn’t the largest shareholder, they would have been feeding THAT out to the press, instead of the incessant every present PR line “stepped down from the board” and “closed his account” lol
jack dorsey is the largest shareholder in bluesky because he founded it and has never transferred or given up his shares in it
Fuck off with this unhinged, unsupported rant. Prove it or stop posting it.
I’m curious to see what gets promoted in Japan. BlueSky’s discover feed in the US is fairly politics-heavy right now since a lot of the new users have been fleeing X’s MAGA swamp.
I have no problem with political posts, but I’m hungry for some more organic variety. If I want variety I have to put in a lot of manual work to find people and topics to follow.
Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?
The Bluesky user experience is lightyears ahead of Mastodon.
Cool, how do we convinced the Masto devs of this apparent fact?
You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.
I mean, don’t ask questions you don’t want to hear the answers to, I suppose.
A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don’t really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can’t leave FB/IG/Reddit because ‘that’s where all the cool kids are’. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.
Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.
Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that’s ballsy.
Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose “Home” feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don’t hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I’d be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I’m good there, too).
IANAL, and everyone calls him MudMan Johnson. Why is that ballsy? I really know very little about popular culture.
Not a pop culture thing, it just sounds… self deprecating, I suppose.
I hear it and think, a man of the earth. Good for you both.
