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The Great Twitter > Bluesky Pro Wrestling Migration
For those unaware, ever since the US Presidential Election there has been a mass exodus of users from Twitter/X over towards Bluesky and this also includes several pro wrestlers, wrestling media and promotions beginning to use Bluesky as their official social media of choice.
For those who are on Bluesky, ImADifferentBird has put together a starter pack of Bluesky users who are part of this 'Wrestlesky' community, and there are several others as well.
There are currently several pro wrestling feeds on Bluesky, listed below:
To date, AEW and TNA have both joined (ROH too but they aren't active yet) and we've been seeing a big influx of pro wrestlers coming in and reactivating old accounts or creating brand new ones.
Should there be any wrestlers or anyone else you want to point out specifically, drop the info in the comments below (and/or recommend them to the maintainers of any starter packs if they aren't listed).
Hopefully we'll be able to do away with posting twitter links entirely soon!
Edit: EVE, NJPW, and Maple Leaf Pro have all also joined!
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I’m still kinda wrapping my head around the feeds and all the emoji use, but it’s pretty nice over there. I’ve found some of y’all and so many accounts I used to follow on Twitter years ago. The blocking situation is great too.
To clarify (in full, for anyone else as well who may need or want it):
On Bluesky there is (almost) no algorithm. Only real place you'll find one is the Discover feed (you can click "Show me more/less of this" on each item and it generates things to show you based on your interactions). And your Following feed (which is self explanatory).
Every other feed is populated via specific keywords, hashtags, or emoji.
For the main wrestling feed:
Please tag posts with #prowrestling,🤼,#wrestlesky,🤼♀️,🤼♂️, or #LuchaLibre to get them to show up. >Using tags for the following promotions will also show up: #aew,#wwe,#NJPW,#ROH,#Impact,#GCW,#TJPW,#ECW,#WCW, #AJPW, #DDT, #NOAH, #STARDOM
Just saying the words without the hashtags also seems to work but ymmv. Most have taken to using the 🤼♂️ as the default "put this in the wrestling feed" option since its quick and faster than any of the others.
Similar things are applicable in other feeds, 📺 and 🎥 put your skeet into the tv or movie feed for example, if you say "doctor who" your skeet will end up in the Doctor Who feed regardless of if you say "Doctor Who is a great show" or "I hate my doctor who tried to fuck with my prescriptions", so there can be some hits or misses lol.
As for the blocks, oh yeah 100%. The blocks on BS are nuclear. Block someone and they are gone from your life, no buts, no caveats, just gone. BS already has a bunch of idiots on it like jdfromny, cornette himself, and a bunch of shit stirrers. Tons of people have been passing around blocklists filled with these nutters and the wrestlesky community's agreed upon approach so far is: "block early and block fast", so the nutters end up getting easily segregated into their own little corner where they're cut off from the actual wrestling community as a whole.
Plus I love the sites technical details, I can hit the back button 3-4x between threads and never get that sorry-we-lost-how-far-down-the-page-you-were-so-start-at-the-top-you-stupid-bitch problem so many websites give you which I appreciate.
Thank you for all the extra info!
My experiences here, on Mastodon, and now BlueSky have been so positive with people freely offering tips and advice like this. For a long time I’d kinda thought the internet was just shit.
And more: If you search my profile on BS (same name), i retweeted a day or two ago a thread with 5-6 blocklists for maga/trolls/musk nutters/cryptobros/scammers/NFT fuckers, and search 'wrestling blocklist' you'll find 1-3 with wrestling jackasses too
A lot of the internet sadly is shit, but we just gotta relearn the old ways to improve it again. We always had ways to find what we needed, we just got complacent with the methods that were easiest to have spoonfed to us and stopped putting in effort to find better options. Since the pandemic people have been smartening up bit by bit, and a big move like this T>BS deal goes a long way to helping that.