December 23, 20241 yr The mentions tab is nice, and available on the app and on the web site, as is the linear vs threaded views (which I like being able to choose).
December 25, 2024Dec 25 I'm in. Running, politics, dogs, Longhorns-the usual. Seems much less toxic than X.
December 26, 2024Dec 26 I'm in. Running, politics, dogs, Longhorns-the usual. Seems much less toxic than X. What’s your @ over there?
December 26, 2024Dec 26 A couple of hallucinogenic dealers followed me on Bluesky. I guess you can order shrooms, lsd, dmt, ketamine. Weird. Also made me nostalgic for Dead tours. Edited December 26, 2024Dec 26 by Willfully Horn
December 27, 2024Dec 27 22 hours ago, Goofyboy said: What’s your @ over there? https://bsky.app/profile/bmbmd.bsky.social And you? Edited December 27, 2024Dec 27 by bmbmd
December 27, 2024Dec 27 https://bsky.app/profile/bmbmd.bsky.social And you? You already follow me: Justadad78
December 27, 2024Dec 27 5 hours ago, Willfully Horn said: A couple of hallucinogenic dealers followed me on Bluesky. I guess you can order shrooms, lsd, dmt, ketamine. Weird. Also made me nostalgic for Dead tours. ... links?
December 27, 2024Dec 27 1 hour ago, safe sex said: ... links? Closest I could figure: https://t.me/plantmedicineworldorgg
December 31, 2024Dec 31 Trending is now available (he's a Bluesky developer) Moderated, respects your muted words, can be disabled if annoying. Me really like.
January 16Jan 16 Because BlueSky is open, somebody is coming out with a client that basically only shows photos and videos - a pseudo Instagram of sorts, “Flashes” https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/
January 16Jan 16 Saw that. I really, really like BlueSky. I’m not slammed with bullshit rightwing craziness.
January 17Jan 17 11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: Because BlueSky is open, somebody is coming out with a client that basically only shows photos and videos - a pseudo Instagram of sorts, “Flashes” https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/ Named after Dan I presume?
January 17Jan 17 13 hours ago, Goofyboy said: I really, really like BlueSky. I’m not slammed with bullshit rightwing craziness. Yep. Slowly working my way into using it more and more. It's the good things twitter was once upon a time.
January 17Jan 17 Getting used to it. UT Athletics sucks on it. Their holiday greeting looked like a Nike ad.
January 17Jan 17 Yep. Slowly working my way into using it more and more. It's the good things twitter was once upon a time.I’m trying to figure out how to build a feed. The F1 feeds I found there are meh at the moment.
January 17Jan 17 42 minutes ago, Goofyboy said: I’m trying to figure out how to build a feed. The F1 feeds I found there are meh at the moment. Yeah, I've had multiple times when I have wanted to send vulgarity and displeasure at F1 directly (moving Monaco to no longer kick off Memorial Day Sunday, fucking with Spa, probably some other dumb shit they needlessly fucked with because that's all they do, etc.) and it's currently impossible.
January 17Jan 17 5 hours ago, Goofyboy said: I’m trying to figure out how to build a feed. The F1 feeds I found there are meh at the moment. 4 hours ago, Prepuce of Doom said: Yeah, I've had multiple times when I have wanted to send vulgarity and displeasure at F1 directly (moving Monaco to no longer kick off Memorial Day Sunday, fucking with Spa, probably some other dumb shit they needlessly fucked with because that's all they do, etc.) and it's currently impossible. Yeah there are some accounts that I'd like to see that aren't there yet. I've been building a pretty good political feed that doesn't get hammered with any unwanted crazy bullshit like Elon hammers me with on X. Haven't really built an F1 feed as of yet. Rest assured, however, that any complaints directed at the F1 account (when they start one) will fall on deaf and/or stupid ears.
January 17Jan 17 Mark Cuban Says He’ll Back a TikTok Alternative Built Off Bluesky’s Protocol https://gizmodo.com/mark-cuban-says-hell-back-a-tiktok-alternative-built-off-blueskys-protocol-2000551599
January 19Jan 19 I made an account because Spencer Hall and that crowd moved over. I just want either BS or X to fail so I can get sports stuff in one place, and I genuinely don’t care which one. I have X curated to filter out politics (the key is to stay off the For You feed).
January 19Jan 19 1 hour ago, Buzzrock said: I made an account because Spencer Hall and that crowd moved over. I just want either BS or X to fail so I can get sports stuff in one place, and I genuinely don’t care which one. I have X curated to filter out politics (the key is to stay off the For You feed). Neither is going to fail, but all of the sports people will now move to Mastodon to piss you off.
January 23Jan 23 Gonna hit 29 million probably tonight, as there’s been another uptick in new users. I’m seeing more activity.
January 23Jan 23 Author They’re algo is improving, but has a ways to go. I flip over to the “discover” tab to let it show me new things. Maybe even people to follow. Lotsa what looks like gamers/programmers whining about life. Hit the “recommend less of this” button and keep scrolling. Scroll awhile and get to a man with his dong hanging out. “Recommend this less,” block, report post. Had 2 of those just now. At some point the algo needs to figure out that just isn’t my bag. And conversely, I have yet to get any attractive, unclothed women pop into my feed. Do better, BlueSky. Do better.
January 26Jan 26 On 1/23/2025 at 2:10 PM, Parliament said: They’re algo is improving, but has a ways to go. I flip over to the “discover” tab to let it show me new things. Maybe even people to follow. Lotsa what looks like gamers/programmers whining about life. Hit the “recommend less of this” button and keep scrolling. Scroll awhile and get to a man with his dong hanging out. “Recommend this less,” block, report post. Had 2 of those just now. At some point the algo needs to figure out that just isn’t my bag. And conversely, I have yet to get any attractive, unclothed women pop into my feed. Do better, BlueSky. Do better. A few weeks ago someone I follow posted a sweet video of a bear swimming in their CA pool. I wanted to watch it again the next day and ignorantly searched for "bear." It was a shock to the system and I thought I could just scroll past the photos of hard dong after hard dong, but they were never-ending and I had to give up and make my search more specific. I had no idea bluesky doubles as a gay dating app. OTOH I didn't know there was a 'recommend less of this' in discover. Thanks!
January 29Jan 29 1 hour ago, Chopper said: Over 30,000,000 user count It's been accelerating the past week. I'm picking up followers for a history account I have setup (not competing with Traces of Texas) and the amount of followers is picking up and I'm not even trying. Give me editing and I'll be 100% happy.
January 29Jan 29 It's been accelerating the past week. I'm picking up followers for a history account I have setup (not competing with Traces of Texas) and the amount of followers is picking up and I'm not even trying. Give me editing and I'll be 100% happy.What’s the history account?
January 29Jan 29 Author On 1/26/2025 at 11:49 AM, Chopper said: OTOH I didn't know there was a 'recommend less of this' in discover. Thanks! I'm not sure the button is actually attached to anything. Seems to make no difference.
January 29Jan 29 13 minutes ago, immamac said: We really need recruits to use it then it would be good. My kids, 20 and 21, had never heard of Bluesky when I asked them about it on Sunday.
January 29Jan 29 7 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said: My kids, 20 and 21, had never heard of Bluesky when I asked them about it on Sunday. They don't do any marketing.
January 29Jan 29 12 minutes ago, Jerry Callo said: My kids, 20 and 21, had never heard of Bluesky when I asked them about it on Sunday. Same. Stats say 1/3 users between 18-24, but my kids had heard of it but were like - why would we use it? They also said kids don't really use X anymore either.
January 29Jan 29 8 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said: Same. Stats say 1/3 users between 18-24, but my kids had heard of it but were like - why would we use it? They also said kids don't really use X anymore either. Without being a creep I need to hang out with some 15-20 year olds for a month to understand wtf it is they are doing because they clearly don't understand computers.
January 29Jan 29 5 minutes ago, immamac said: Without being a creep I need to hang out with some 15-20 year olds for a month to understand wtf it is they are doing because they clearly don't understand computers. according to mine.. want to show something off - Instagram, want to kill time - Tiktok, everything else WhatsApp mine are in their 20s though... but that's the trend they say Edited January 29Jan 29 by MonkeyDoughnut
January 29Jan 29 4 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said: according to mine.. want to show something off - Instagram, want to kill time - Tiktok, everything else WhatsApp mine are in their 20s though... but that's the trend they say So they get their news from tiktok?
January 29Jan 29 47 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said: according to mine.. want to show something off - Instagram, want to kill time - Tiktok, everything else WhatsApp mine are in their 20s though... but that's the trend they say Yep, this is what my students say also.
January 29Jan 29 3 minutes ago, immamac said: So why don't news platforms make a Shorts style app etc? There is Youtube shorts. It is deemed inferior. When the great tiktok ban of 2025 occurred, I suggested this and my kids laughed at me. Then Trump saved it, as they saw it.
January 29Jan 29 There is Youtube shorts. It is deemed inferior. When the great tiktok ban of 2025 occurred, I suggested this and my kids laughed at me. Then Trump saved it, as they saw it. My kid likes YouTube Shorts more. He’s 8th grade. His friend circle is similar.
January 29Jan 29 11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said: It's been accelerating the past week. I'm picking up followers for a history account I have setup (not competing with Traces of Texas) and the amount of followers is picking up and I'm not even trying. Give me editing and I'll be 100% happy. A few of the women I follow, and men too tbh, want to be able to limit replies to posts to followers only. I've been seeing complaints about newly bad behavior/old xitter habits.
February 8Feb 8 Looks like a client is out that turns it into TikTok, just grabs and shows you videos https://lifehacker.com/tech/bluesky-now-has-its-own-tiktok
February 8Feb 8 Looks like a client is out that turns it into TikTok, just grabs and shows you videos https://lifehacker.com/tech/bluesky-now-has-its-own-tiktokI’ve been following this. They built this is roughly 30 days. It’s been impressive to follow.
February 18Feb 18 Damn nice update. You can now restrict replies to your posts to followers only! A new settings page now exists to set default "Who can reply" settings on all future posts Improvements to the search page interface Added a new "Search posts by user" tool to profiles When reporting DM conversations, you will now be prompted to block the offending user and delete the conversation
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