Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.
  • ThatVeganYouHate [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    18 hours ago

    I can’t get into twitter/bluesky/mastodon. I don’t like following specific users and I don’t like the format 🤷🏽‍♂️I always end up following someone who then overwhelm whatever feed I have then libs out. I just pop into reddit/lemmy and post whatever shows up and in my inbox then bounce, the maintenance on microblogging is exhausting to me

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      its an absurd format. it’s not for conversation or information. just short format broadcast, so it’s full of popularity contest obsessed bozos and “entrepenurial” grifters doing ads.

      if it and all its clones were nuked, it would have no negative effect on any future aearch for resources, information, or culturally significant expression. when’s the last time you found the answer to a query hosted on twitter? reddit blows but i still find valuable shit buried in some community.

      that absolutely never happens with twitter

    • ProletarianDictator [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Yeah the lopsided posting habits of various users makes it hard to see all the posts from people you follow. There’s always that one account posting 10 times an hour flooding out your feed.

      This combined with not being able to filter out retweets makes Mastodon cumbersome and not very effective for its main purpose…keeping up with posts from specific people.

      Say what you will about recommendation algorithms, they do at least prevent this type of thing from ruining your experience.

    • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I just use browser bookmarks of userpages on xcancel etc. if I want to see what they’re up to. I don’t have or want accounts on those sites.

    • Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      15 hours ago

      I always end up following someone who then overwhelm whatever feed

      This has been my major issue with non-algorithmic feeds. There’s always that pareto superminority who are responsible for the supermajority of what I see on my feed, and no real way to float up some posts from less prolific accounts.

  • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    191·
    17 hours ago

    the radlibs on bsky got mad when I said Solzhenitsyn was a fascist sympathizer who complained the US didn’t go far enough in Vietnam

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        isn’t it owned by some taiwanese fascist instead? really owning me w/ that i guess

        edit: idk who the fuck I’m thinking of because google is insisting there’s no taiwanese people involved with it. it’s still a liberal shithole idk why we needed 2 of them

        • Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          Its a con. Liberals got mad at twitter and instead of going to anything else they went to bluesky because they bought into the idea that it is some mythical twitter that didn’t have algorithm and wasn’t owned by bad conservates. It would be "federated’ " eventually " along with a bunch of other promises.

          They literally went to it because musk bad and this new thing looks and acts like twitter. Couldn’t get anyone to anything else to save my life (was a social media manager) and I just kept getting these bullshit excuses and it always boiled down to the same shit.

        • abc [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          6·
          15 hours ago

          I mean a lot of the ‘I’m holier than twitter/bluesky’ opinions I see seem to focus on how ‘awful’ they are but conveniently leave out that Twitter up until Musk bought it was the place for getting breaking news for over a decade. I don’t think it is hard to conceive as to why people would’ve wanted to jump ship when Elon started rolling out things like grok. To call Twitter a liberal shithole in 2026 is kinda crazy anyways given that it is most definitely a ‘fascist shithole’ and has been for sometime with the whole ‘grok generate an image of this user naked’

          You could very well say the same thing about reddit/lemmy - why do we need two reddits when lemmy as a whole is a liberal shithole as well??? bleh

          • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
            6·
            15 hours ago

            You could very well say the same thing about reddit/lemmy - why do we need two reddits when lemmy as a whole is a liberal shithole as well???

            But lemmy has hexbear

            also i was calling bluesky a liberal shithole but it’s really a same-picture situation

  • erik [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    16 hours ago

    Crazy that Threads still does so well in so many metrics considering its place in popular culture is almost nothing. Bluesky, for as small as it is and apparently struggling, still gets a fair amount of play thanks to a handful of power-users and what not.

    I’ve no dog in this race; I’m a Mastodon dead-ender. But it’s more my methadone after I left Twitter than anything else. I’ve got some friends on Bluesky willing to ignore its connections to crypto and Bain Capital and what not because some of their favorite YouTubers or whatever are on there.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      14 hours ago

      Crazy that Threads still does so well in so many metrics considering its place in popular culture is almost nothing.

      The Instagram app heavily pushes Threads right on the main feed.