Published on November 17, 2024 2:50 AM GMT
Recently a bunch of my friends, primarily in the contra dance world,have decided to give Bluesky a try. I think a lot of this is apost-election reaction to Musk and X (Twitter), but since I'm not onTwitter I'm mostly seeing the Facebook side. Regardless, I'm happy tosee energy for migration: I'm pretty unhappy with FB [1] and if we canget critical mass on a better platform that seems good.
Playing with Bluesky it seems fine. I turned off Reposts (Settings> Following Feed Preference > Show Reposts) because otherwise myfeed was full of things from people I don't know that I wasn'tinterested in. I like that it seems to be run by people who valueopenness. Not sure yet whether it's default algorithm is any good,but I like that I can experiment with other algorithms or (if I'mwilling to put in a bunch of work) I could write my own.
If I end up liking it I'll write a comment bot likeI did for Mastodon. Speakingof which, I'm still cross-posting there [2], from a previous effort to move toa more open platform, and I'm still reading it with withShrubgrazer. But more friends have joined Bluesky in the past fewdays than ever joined Mastodon, so this seems more likely to take off.
If you'd like to add me I'm @jeffkaufman.bsky.social.
[1] Very high ad load, keeps trying to push reels and groups,increasingly buggy (for months long comment threads only load if Iswitch each one from the default of "most relevant" to "allcomments"), doesn't show me posts from most of my friends, still quitebad at predicting which of my friends to show my posts to, broke mycomment bot enough times that I've given up on it, doesn't supportgood search because people find it creepy, terrible flow for review ifone of my posts is accidentally removed, etc.
[2] As platforms proliferate I'm glad to be using a POSSE ("Publish (on your) OwnSite, Syndicate Elsewhere") strategy.
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