Tips for moving to bluesky from Xitter*...

[littlemissmartypants]

Link to tweet

❤️pants

* pronunciation guide: X = sh

[House of Roberts]

1. Sounds too complicated for me.

For instance: What is a 'banger tweet'? What if you never were on Twitter?

[Beartracks]

2. I'm assuming "banger" is not a technical or twitter term, but rather...

... just a way to say your tweet was really popular, a big hit, generated a lot of likes and retweets.

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[littlemissmartypants]

10. Exactly. Thanks, Beartracks. ❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Banger Tweet

Banger Tweet
A tweet of higher quality compared to most others, usually in comedic value and wording. Typically used as a compliment towards a tweet

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Banger%20Tweet&origin=serp_auto

[Beartracks]

22. Or a tweet about British breakfast sausages.

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[littlemissmartypants]

23. Hahaha! ❤️

[duncang]

7. It's really not that hard

I wouldn’t worry if you don’t get full in at once. You can take your time. There are things called starter packs. Where someone makes a list of suggested people to follow. You look through them and decide if you want to follow. Or you can do search and say you want to follow Kevin Kruse. Search for Kruse and you’ll see some suggestions. Same thing for News, archeology, pets, you name it there’s probably something. I started off searching for some of the names I saw on twitter accounts posted here.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Thanks for sharing this, duncang! ❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

14. Hahaha! ❤️

[canetoad]

4. Just signed up

zhickel.bsky.social

[CatWoman]

26. just followed you

i am MidoriLiz

[livetohike]

42. Followed you!

I’m Swamp Flower

[CatWoman]

43. ditto

[canetoad]

45. Gotcha!

[livetohike]

41. Followed you.

I’m Swamp Flower .

[canetoad]

46. Likewise!

[kanda]

50. followed!

just followed several of you! I'm kandamal

[buzzycrumbhunger]

6. Oooh!

I bailed on Twitter when Space Nazi bought it and have missed it.

Upon creating an account on bluesky, I found half my feed was cat pix. If pot-smoking atheists are as prevalent, I've found a new home. 😏

[littlemissmartypants]

9. I believe you're going to be very happy, buzzycrumbhunger.

I have downloaded the app so I'm not far behind.



❤️

[hlthe2b]

8. thanks for posting!

[Norbert]

11. Yhanks.

[littlemissmartypants]

15. My pleasure, Norbert. ❤️

[Cha]

12. Mahalo, pants! Hoping Blue Sky gradually

Explodes with Resistance & Blue Patriots in Defiance of Fascism

💙

[Alsteen]

16. URL?

https://bsky.app/

Kinda thought it would make things easier

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Thanks for sharing this, Alsteen. ❤️

[Hekate]

17. Best of luck to all! 🦋

🦋

[littlemissmartypants]

19. So pretty! Thanks, Hekate. 🦋❤️🦋

[proud patriot]

20. I just deactivated my x account and signed up for bluesky

Alohapatriot is me

[littlemissmartypants]

21. Yay! 🦋❤️🦋

[CatWoman]

25. just followed you

I am midoriliz.bsky.social

[proud patriot]

31. Ditto

I followed many of your followers too . just to get me started .

[CatWoman]

34. ....

[Dem2theMax]

24. Moved to Bluesky about six months ago.

Got rid of Twitter almost two months ago. Said goodbye and left. Deactivated the account.

I have found a few people that I followed on Twitter. Takes time to build back up again, but it's SO much nicer on Bluesky.

[CousinIT]

27. Thats what I did

Other stuff too, like using sky bridge to find xitter follows and follow them on bluesky.

I'm https://bsky.app/profile/cousinit.bsky.social

if anyone wants to follow me.

[littlemissmartypants]

29. Cool! Thanks for your reply, CousinIT. ❤️

[livetohike]

44. Followed you!

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

[CousinIT]

47. Followed back! N/t

[dem4decades]

28. Thanks, I've been off Twitter since Musk, this looks good.

[littlemissmartypants]

30. YW, dem4decades. ❤️

[IcyPeas]

32. Apparently a lot of new users have signed up this week.

Still figuring it out. I seem to see a lot of anime type drawings and.... cats. Lol

[Metaphorical]

33. I've been planning to go to bluesky for a while

This was just the right shove, thanks.

I'm on at: https://bsky.app/profile/thecaglereport.bsky.social

[Prairie Gates]

35. People should move the Green Grass from both of these useless time sucks

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Are you volunteering to help...

"move the Green Grass"...Prairie Gates.?

[orleans]

37. i had to google blue sky to see the page that way (none of the links in this thread worked with the word app in it)

anyway, i'm scrolling thru the various forums or whatever they call them - cat pics, dogs, this that the other thing, uk politics.

any u.s. politics over there? i've been scrolling and scrolling and can't find it

[littlemissmartypants]

38. Users create custom feeds...Here...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/as-threads-deprioritizes-politics-blueskys-ceo-touts-custom-feeds-and-user-choice-in-social-media/?origin=serp_auto

...On Bluesky, Graber said, users could choose to have a highly political social experience, by following politically themed custom feeds and trending topics, or they could choose to filter out politics entirely. ...

...“You can start building custom feeds that do things — based off lists, based off hashtags, based off words, based off regular expressions, based off machine learning,” said Graber. “And these tools are getting better and better and creating more options for people who want to be creative, have an idea for a feed, but don’t know how to code.”...

More...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/as-threads-deprioritizes-politics-blueskys-ceo-touts-custom-feeds-and-user-choice-in-social-media/?origin=serp_auto

❤️

[orleans]

39. thank you nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

40. I am considering moving to BlueSky -

Thank you for posting this

[Heron5]

48. 700,000 New Users in Week

According to The Verge tech website, is on fire! I had signed up quite a while back but it was pretty dead. Returned today after the recommendations here.The Verge also has an article today about how to deactivate your X account.
https://www.theverge.com/24293448/x-twitter-musk-deactivate-how-to

[littlemissmartypants]

49. Very nice of you to share this, Heron5. ❤️

[Bluetus]

51. Can anybody talk about the ownership and strategy of Bluesky?

Is this really any better than having Musk control everything?

Is there any better fact-checking or moderation?

Are the algorithms any less likely to amplify a RW bubble?

[littlemissmartypants]

52. Response to your questions plus Bluesky News, Information

1) Can anybody talk about the ownership and strategy of Bluesky?
I'll try.

2) Is this really any better than having Musk control everything?
So much better. Way more civilized.

3) Is there any better fact-checking or moderation?
•Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation
March 12, 2024
by The Bluesky Team
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-12-2024-stackable-moderation

•Here's a partial answer, though the article from the Associated Press is not current.

Bluesky, championed by Jack Dorsey, was supposed to be Twitter 2.0. Can it succeed?
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Published 1:43 PM EST, June 6, 2023

"...Bluesky’s approach to content moderation is similar to its approach to algorithms to decide what users see. That is, giving users a choice in what they see. The app launched with a chronological feed, meaning you see posts in the order they are posted in. Other social platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter use secretive algorithms to show you what you’re more likely to be interested in. Bluesky also has “custom feeds,” which let users pick the algorithm that controls what they see.

“Imagine you want your timeline to only be posts from your mutuals, or only posts that have cat photos, or only posts related to sports — you can simply pick your feed of choice from an open marketplace,” CEO Jay Graber wrote in a recent blog post. ..."

4) Are the algorithms any less likely to amplify a RW bubble? Absolutely! Users create their feeds by selecting topics individually or through what are called 'starter packs' of grouped by topic suggestions. Users are able to en masse block several users in one fell swoop using lists.


🦋About Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about
🦋Bluesky Blog
The latest from Bluesky
https://bsky.social/about/blog
🦋Bluesky user FAQ's
https://bsky.social/about/blog/5-19-2023-user-faq
🦋Bluesky main page aka Home
https://bsky.app/
Shows the current feed that is seen by all.
🦋Bluesky Feeds, aka topics you can follow and where to find/ search them
https://bsky.app/feeds
🦋Bluesky Starter Packs
Introducing Bluesky Starter Packs
June 26, 2024
by The Bluesky Team
https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs?origin=serp_auto


Additional Information from Bluesky web search
🦋24 Facts About Bluesky
Written by Karalynn Rossman
Published: 29 Oct 2024
https://facts.net/science/technology/24-facts-about-bluesky/

🦋How to use Bluesky Social: Everything to know about the popular X alternative

Bluesky is one of several social networks striving to offer an alternative to the site formerly known as Twitter. Here's how to join and use it.

Written by Lance Whitney, Contributor
Nov. 12, 2024 at 8:53 a.m. PT

More...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-bluesky-social-everything-to-know-about-the-popular-x-alternative/?origin=serp_auto

🦋Check out this thread started by AOC with:

"I don’t even know why I stopped using this in the first place? Good GOD it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings.

Can someone give a Cliff Notes of what went down here over the last year? Tea, dev notes, big memes, whatever is best please"
Link to her OP:
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3lapfo7yxko23

LMK if I can be of any more help or if you have other questions. Enjoy!

❤️pants

[Bluetus]

54. Thanks. This is very helpful.

And I saw where they claimed it is open source, so the public can see exactly what algorithms are used to target users. I don't know if that is still true.

[canetoad]

53. Using Alt Text on B.Sky

As LMSP's OP stated, BlueSky asks you to use Alt.Text when posting images; there's a really good reason for that, to do with accessibility.

Some vision impaired people used a screen reader - softwear that reads out the contents of a web page. The screen reader hits a brick wall at images that don't have a caption or some ALTernative text describing the image leaving the vision impaired person with no idea of what is pictured.

Just a PSA.