Bluesky

[rynling]

I finally got an invite for Bluesky. This is me:

https://bsky.app/profile/kathrynthehuman.bsky.social

I know I should start posting and friending people etc etc etc, but the thought of starting over from scratch is exhausting.

One thing I appreciate about Bluesky is that other people can't see your "likes." This is good, as it's very important to me to like everything my friends post on social media. Twitter makes this impossible, as it shows tweets you've liked to the people following you. I'm very careful about not posting too frequently and never liking anything on Twitter, but this still isn't good enough to protect me from the algorithm, and I'm convinced that all but maybe five people who follow me have me muted. Idk man. What's the point of social media if you can't show your love for your friends? Fingers crossed this Bluesky business works out.

Anyway, the platform didn't give me any invite codes, but I'll share them here once I have them.

Comments

[lassarina]

Not forcing everyone to see your likes is a surprisingly good design choice.

[rynling]

I also appreciate not creating a separate sidebar to show people trending hashtags. I never know when I'm going to open Twitter and see, like, #Florida #MassShooting #Jews.

I don't mind paid content, or even a "for you" tab, but yikes. Regularly having hate speech shoved in my face first thing in the morning made me dislike Twitter immensely. Tumblr shoving camgirls in my face isn't great either. Corporations need to realize that I'm a delicate fucking flower. If I wanted porn and racism, I'd get on 4chan.

[lassarina]

trust and safety for sites with user-generated content is a horrible race to the bottom even when the site in question invests heavily in it (which Twitter did not to start with and has cut viciously), because people are wretched, but yeah. as it turns out, when something hurts, we sometimes learn to not interact with it??? wild.