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Not sure if it's a GIF or a video, but the animation doesn't play and I get the ALT text instead. Shame, this one is much better with the animation.
 
Oh shit. I may have to check it out. Did not realize how widespread it had become.
 
We are able to display Bluesky as best we can, it's on Bluesky to update their end so it can display videos and GIFs and what not, not us. They are a new company so I'm sure will do it eventually. It also will not be in dark mode until they fix that too.

In terms of the company itself, yes, it's exciting to see an alternative to Twitter actually emerge finally. Several companies, including Bluesky themselves have tried for years, but for whatever reason, this one seems like it's actually going to happen. I guess the reason of course is the election result and people being disgusted with Elon Musk and what Twitter has become.
 
chawkheel said:
Bluesky is what twitter was five or six years ago. I love it.
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Yeah. When I saw that my favorite old Twitter follow @dreadships had finally moved to BlueSky last week or so I knew we were back in business!

Here's a thread that is a pretty good example of @dreadship's work. Come for the antique warships and English snark, stay for the ALT text (seriously, read the alt text):

 
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Rock said:
We are able to display Bluesky as best we can, it's on Bluesky to update their end so it can display videos and GIFs and what not, not us. They are a new company so I'm sure will do it eventually. It also will not be in dark mode until they fix that too.

In terms of the company itself, yes, it's exciting to see an alternative to Twitter actually emerge finally. Several companies, including Bluesky themselves have tried for years, but for whatever reason, this one seems like it's actually going to happen. I guess the reason of course is the election result and people being disgusted with Elon Musk and what Twitter has become.
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Thanks, Rock! No pressure at all. I was just testing where we are at the moment. I am psyched about BlueSky getting more momentum. Mainly so I can add enough followed accounts to purge all the cats from my main feed. Although I suspect following Affirmation Coyote didn't help my cause (Algorithm: Oh, he like cute animals, does he? Well I've got a lot more where those came from!). Still I'm down to about 30% cats. Just 30% more to go.
 
Affirmation Coyote scared the hell out of my son and I walking into basketball practice last night. We had to walk back to the car as it started walking right towards us. My son dropped his ball and it rolled to the edge of the parking lot. The coyote came right up to it as if it wanted to play. We finally scared it away, but it was totally comfortable hanging out with us.
 
I’ve been using it though still toggle to Twitter because still more news posters there, but more and more I just skim Xitter to see what the Musk MAGA are up to.

BSKY right now reminds me of the excitement about Threads being a Twitter alternative, but Meta dashed those hopes by becoming openly hostile to political/news posting and announcing they were updating their algorithms to encourage users to view influencer crap instead. Threads is doing a hasty update now but I assume too late.

Anyway, if they keep adding quality news outlets I anticipate eventually decamping permanently to BSKY and spot checking Twitter the same way I check Truth Social.
 
Ddseddse said:


Not sure if it's a GIF or a video, but the animation doesn't play and I get the ALT text instead. Shame, this one is much better with the animation.
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I tip my hat at Affirmation Thylacine and agree that Affirmation Dingo is a pretender. Dude, we know you came out of a placenta.
 
bassydude77 said:
Affirmation Coyote scared the hell out of my son and I walking into basketball practice last night. We had to walk back to the car as it started walking right towards us. My son dropped his ball and it rolled to the edge of the parking lot. The coyote came right up to it as if it wanted to play. We finally scared it away, but it was totally comfortable hanging out with us.
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Mighta been his cousin... Predation Coyote
 
Elon Musk is quite the puzzle with X, f/k/a Twitter.
a) He vastly overpaid for it.
b) He waived all due diligence during the acquisition process.
c) His post-purchase managment decisions have further devalued it.
d) It is like he viewed X/Twitter as a disposable, yet necessary, means to an end. As in, to achieve some undisclosed goal, he needed X/Twitter regardless of what it cost and destroying it was a acceptable, maybe necessary, step toward achieivng that goal.
e) Makes one wonder, if the prior owners of Twitter had known Musk viewed Twitter as a necessary means to an undisclosed end and achieving that end would result in the destruction of Twitter, then how much more could they have asked for?
f) I think the prior owners of Twitter left money on the table, despite getting far in excess of Twitter's actual value.
g) It is almost as if someone who really doesn't understand how Western business works was pulling Elon's strings.
 
Really struggling to decide to go to Bluesky. I have been off X since the weird dude and his Saudi friends purchased it. That event made me realize how exposed I am to bad players by using social media….it scares me. You just know the weird dude and his Saudi friends would sell us out for a few dollars in a minute. My worry is that Bluesky could be sold to other bad actors.
 
05C40 said:
Elon Musk is quite the puzzle with X, f/k/a Twitter.
a) He vastly overpaid for it.
b) He waived all due diligence during the acquisition process.
c) His post-purchase managment decisions have further devalued it.
d) It is like he viewed X/Twitter as a disposable, yet necessary, means to an end. As in, to achieve some undisclosed goal, he needed X/Twitter regardless of what it cost and destroying it was a acceptable, maybe necessary, step toward achieivng that goal.
e) Makes one wonder, if the prior owners of Twitter had known Musk viewed Twitter as a necessary means to an undisclosed end and achieving that end would result in the destruction of Twitter, then how much more could they have asked for?
f) I think the prior owners of Twitter left money on the table, despite getting far in excess of Twitter's actual value.
g) It is almost as if someone who really doesn't understand how Western business works was pulling Elon's strings.
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As to point e) and f), Twitter was public. I don't think they could have gotten more unless they found a higher memey price with juvenile references to sex and weed.

The puzzling part is why some of the big investors like Dorsey were willing to roll over their equity, or other financing came in.

It's hard to know whether wrecking Xitter was part of Musk's plan, or he was simply inept. I think it's the latter. Xitter doesn't have high entry barriers, at least not for social media. Hence Bluesky's emergence after a relatively short period of time.
 
I'm still on Twitter because there are certain Twitter groups (Nicaragua Resistance Twitter, Basketball Coach Twitter, Costa Rica Twitter) that just haven't ported anywhere else. Starting to see some of the basketball talking heads move over to BlueSky.

Really hate how Elon Musk interjects himself into the Twitter streams. I don't follow him but he pops up continuously into my For You stream, even on my stealth account that gets nowhere near US politics. Free speech my ass.
 
dukeman92 said:
What are some good dem accounts to follow?
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Robert Reich, first and foremost I would say (@rbreich.bsky.social).

Any journalists you trust.

I'm partial to the lawfare crowd, Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) and Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social), et al, though I guess they're not "Dems" as much as they're institutionalists, which is where I think the fight really is).
 
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