How active is Bluesky for your interests? Seems to be losing a bit of traction lately
The place seems quieter than in December, are other people feeling the same?
I've seen a few independent newspaper saying that Bluesky doesn't bring them that much interaction compared to Twitter, and unfortunately they only have so much time dedicated to social media, so their priority is on Twitter now.
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The place seems quieter than in December, are other people feeling the same?
That's strange, since it's about as active now as it was in December.
Anecdotally, the clique I interact with have completely moved off of Twitter and onto Bluesky.
That's nice. It's probably interest/niche dependent, which is why I opened the thread.
interest/niche dependent
Seems a little like this is the future for alternative social media platforms. At least along socio-political lines. Haven't used Bluesky in around a month so I assume nothing has changed in this regard but people there don't fuck around when it comes to blocking conservatives and right wingers. So now interests and niches are split across two different platforms instead of just being on one.
Which is fine as far as I'm concerned because I'd like to be able to discuss comics for example, without hearing about wokeness or DEI or something. But it probably also means that certain niches and interests are going to require a lot more users on the platform than before in order to feel like they have the same amount of activity as they did when it was all on one platform.
I can imagine that news orgs are particularly caught between a rock and a hard place as far as this goes. Disappointing to hear that they've moved back to Twitter though. When I was there, there were a lot of articles doing the rounds describing the exact opposite and saying that news orgs were actually seeing more activity on Bluesky than Twitter. So I wonder what happened there. Maybe these news orgs value outrage and controversy more than whatever they were getting on Bluesky.
Rachel Maddow's pretty happy. I'm sure a significant amount of those user numbers come from #resist types.
