Bluesky has storm clouds gathering

[Lionfish]

Bluesky has 'the juice' — but it still doesn't have the normies​

• Bluesky says it now has around 20 million users — and it's become a pretty lively site.
• It has lots of pundits and people talking about the election, but does it have enough regular people?
• Bluesky doesn't have verification in the same way X or Threads does.

From what I can tell, the users who've been joining Bluesky en masse recently are members of the big blob of liberal-to-left-wing journalists, academics, lawyers, and tech workers--politically engaged email-job types--who were early Twitter adopters and whose compulsive use of the site over the years was an important force in shaping its culture and norms. (Some of those users have been on the site for a while, valiantly attempting to change Bluesky's culture from "toxically wack" to "tolerably wack.")

This group — people who post a lot, in real time, is what some people are calling "the juice" — the sign of an active platform.

Bluesky is still missing that base layer of regular people.

MSN

There is no "juice" just a bunch of malcont losers beating the same drum. Anyone remember Truth Social, Parlor, or Mastodon?

 

[The Trump Administration]

Say it's not so...

Try it. See for yourself.

 

[NakedHunterBiden]

How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation​

The tech billionaire always had a problem with telling the truth — now he has an entire social network built on lies

How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation

A timeline of how Elon Musk has turned X into a misinformation weapon that spews falsehoods about migrants, gender, health and elections.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[TOP]

Rolling Stone?

 

[EdwinA]

lol roiling stone.

 

[The Trump Administration]

How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation​

The tech billionaire always had a problem with telling the truth — now he has an entire social network built on lies

How Elon Musk and X Became the Biggest Purveyors of Online Misinformation

A timeline of how Elon Musk has turned X into a misinformation weapon that spews falsehoods about migrants, gender, health and elections.

www.rollingstone.com

An opinion piece? OK.

BTW, isn't Rolling Stone still on X?

 

[TOP]

Try it. See for yourself.

You're correct...

 

[The Trump Administration]

lol roiling stone.

"Roiling". I like it.

 

[NakedHunterBiden]

Cool stay over there at the misinfo Nazi site.

You are bleeding members. Oh well! Ta! Ta!

 

[TOP]

lol roiling stone.

GMTA

 

[Into the Night]

There is tension between not censoring and offering a level platform for blatant lies. The idea of allowing equal footing for lies is why we have a distrust of science, medicine, vaccines and the government.

Your discard of science is YOUR problem. It is good to distrust medicine, someone pushing a vaccine, or to distrust the government.

People that watch lies on a daily basis will see them as truth

...and you do, despite the obvious discard of science and mathematics that you do.

and that is why Fox paid almost a billion to the organization they constantly lied about.

Dominion has obvious and demonstrable flaws. These machine should NOT be used in election offices.

Fox viewers still believe the election lies they were told, even after Fox admitted in court that they were institutionally lying,

You can't make the evidence of Democrat election fraud just disappear, Sybil.

Musk bought Twitter so the lies would again have equal access.

Nope. it was to erase the censorship.

it was a crappy business decision. He paid double and has lost a ton of money.

Jealousy. You just can't stand how rich Elon is.

He did it to help the election of Trump.

Okay.

A half billion here or there means nothing to him. He wants his taxes to stay at zero.

You just can't stand how rich Elon is, can you?

 

[Into the Night]

Sad little snowflakes. Not only they demand being "protected" for words on a screen, they insist that their bias be extended to everyone else, because they don't believe people have the right or ability to exercise good judgment.

They are running to the Kiddie Pool. They can't handle places where censorship doesn't happen.

 

[The Trump Administration]

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Cool stay over there at the misinfo Nazi site.

You are bleeding members. Oh well! Ta! Ta!

I don't need your permission, do I?

I reserve the right to decide for myself what is or isn't credible. Do you lack that level of discernment?

 

[The Trump Administration]

They are running to the Kiddie Pool. They can't handle places where censorship doesn't happen.

Seems so. They yearn to turn this forum into a version of Bluesky, BTW.

DM me for details.

 

[Into the Night]

Bluesky has 'the juice' — but it still doesn't have the normies​

• Bluesky says it now has around 20 million users — and it's become a pretty lively site.
• It has lots of pundits and people talking about the election, but does it have enough regular people?
• Bluesky doesn't have verification in the same way X or Threads does.

From what I can tell, the users who've been joining Bluesky en masse recently are members of the big blob of liberal-to-left-wing journalists, academics, lawyers, and tech workers--politically engaged email-job types--who were early Twitter adopters and whose compulsive use of the site over the years was an important force in shaping its culture and norms. (Some of those users have been on the site for a while, valiantly attempting to change Bluesky's culture from "toxically wack" to "tolerably wack.")

This group — people who post a lot, in real time, is what some people are calling "the juice" — the sign of an active platform.

Bluesky is still missing that base layer of regular people.

Bluesky doesn't want 'em.

 

[The Trump Administration]

Bluesky doesn't want 'em.

Judging by the deluge of ban requests their moderators are getting, I'd say that's a valid guess.

 

[Into the Night]

Seems so. They yearn to turn this forum into a version of Bluesky, BTW.

DM me for details.

They've already tried. It failed, of course.

 

[The Trump Administration]

They've already tried. It failed, of course.

Remember when they begged Daddy Damocles to install a threadban feature and then cried when other people used it to exclude them from threads?

 

[The Trump Administration]

 

[The Trump Administration]