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[–] [email protected] 28 points 17 hours ago

Sorry to hear that, but at least some of them are not on Xitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

I never trust meta statistics anymore because you know they're filling out their "numbers" with bots to try and keep their stock prices up.

In terms of real users I bet bluesky has already surpassed them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

30 million users and still nobody likes my posts

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I find it odd that people follow Jack Dorsey into another sewer in troves. They seem to like the previous Twitter experiment, while I find it repugnant.

The lesson today is that I don't get the social media phenomenon. My bad. I hope they have a ton of fun.

[–] jmk1ng 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Jack Dorsey has no involvement in Bluesky. He doesnt even have a Bluesky account.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't like Twitter as a social platform, but I did use it a lot for news on current events, such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident?

Handy for communication during some kind of emergency that floods the phone network, but that's pretty niche. Anyway, I interact a little on Bluesky but mostly it's just a time killer like TikTok or whatever. Twitter was super easy to quit between the Musk take over and moving away from DC.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

such as how is the traffic on my route home, and why am I stuck in traffic, and how many miles ahead of me is the fucking accident

Any maps app, especially Google Maps, would do this as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Eh... what I really wanted to know was when they are going to clear the wreck and whether that stupid mother fucker died so I shouldn't flip them off as I drive by. Can Google Maps tell me that?

I didn't really want to out myself as the asshole wishing for someone's death. But here we are.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Tried it last night for a hockey game. I still think I'm not using it correctly but people were nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There’s no right or wrong way. For it to be fun for an event like that you need to follow lots of people in that space. Like journalist, reporters, beat writers and analysts. However if you don’t want that content in your feed full time you could try searching one of the teams hashtags and use the latest tab to follow along. You can also take all those suggested follows and make a list to pin to your BlueSky front page without following them and just goto that feed during games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Oh interesting, thanks! I figured out the hashtaga bit but a lot of fun popped up without the hashtaga etc.

I suppose I'll just keep muddling along and figure something that works for me while trying to be a net positive influence!

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