What does anyone think of Bluesky Social?

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StorageCrazy2539@reddit

It's an echo chamber for thought that don't want their beliefs challenged

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No_Letterhead9066@reddit

Not true, you get banned for saying certain words

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StorageCrazy2539@reddit

No you don't get banned they just don't allow certain words that shouldn't be used anyway.

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No_Letterhead9066@reddit

That’s censorship and violates my 1st! That’s what cults do! How can we allow this?!

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StorageCrazy2539@reddit

But it was ok when it came to questioning the effectiveness of vaccines?

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Yeah, we should have just let people go near others with a weak version of covid and then develop a natural sort of immunity, so if they ended up getting the full, real-big-deal version they wouldn't get it super bad without any damage. But no, they put all that vaccine crap on us, like that was better than what I just said

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Wopperlayouts@reddit

that’s 100% what it is

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emmawow12@reddit

It's not my cup of tea I left atfer an week of using it due to people were spamming me to donate there money and they were annoying so I had no code but deactivate my blue sky acc.

since then I moved elsewhere.

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a_library_socialist@reddit

Prefer Mastodon

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emmawow12@reddit

I tried that sites it's great the kids r nice and people r nice but I get aloney if u cannot people who draws for the similar fandom...

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waybackguy@reddit

May I ask why you prefer Mastodon over Bluesky? I'm on both too. Is it ActivityPub, UI, userbase or all of the above?

I really wish Mastodon had a way to search for more than 5 hashtags as once like Bluesky / Skyfeed. I also wish I could you could turn off all Boosts and Replies on the home feed when using the mobile app.

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a_library_socialist@reddit

Activity Pub.

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OldandBlue@reddit

It's asking for my phone number. I gave up.

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mhbentz@reddit

Could you give a false phone number?

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emmawow12@reddit

that what art station asked so I abandoned that and moved to blue skys

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1EyeGodIsAi@reddit

An thats the right thing to do. Your comment just made me realize why my phone has been spammed with political calls this year. I signed up for truthsocial to see if it's just TV being repeated on the internet (it is). An i never went back. Now I get tons of republican spam calls. Somehow they got my email before (Alex Jones selling it?).

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song4this@reddit

Yes, it wouldn't accept googlevoice so I did not continue. I can understand their perspective. I might try setting up my own server - they just announced federation...

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cactusmask@reddit

It's fine. I think it's the best twitter replacement after quitting twitter. But quitting twitter helped me realized how little I need a thing like twitter in my life anyway.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

I never did twitter, I was thinking of a future Reddit replacement. You have a point though, do I need a replacement?

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Feisty_Resource7027@reddit

For the last week or so Somebody is messing with my Quora account + my Instagram account.

This morning I cancelled Instagram !

I read alot on our Current politics...so I don't think it's a coincidence

The Bezos, Zuckerberg & Musk STENCH is all over this. Even my internet is going really wierd.

Are their videos & helpful tips etc on it?

FYI: 🔊🔈🔉

Wednesday February 5th/25

Today @ 12 Noon

50 States

50 Marches

On 50 Capitals...

Please fan that out 🙏

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Stiltzkinn@reddit

Many redditors do not need an alternative.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

We may in the nearby future.

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parryfinkle@reddit

I used to really like Reddit but I find the moderators just ban you if you have a difference of opinion. It would be nice to have a place with open dialogue. Reddit isnt that

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KoRnKloWn@reddit

I thought it was hilarious that I got permanently banned from the "Libertarian" subreddit, for saying an idea was "stupid" or something like that. Kind of ironic when you think about it 😂

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Stiltzkinn@reddit

There already are like Lemmy or Tildes.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

The whole point of this subreddit is which sites are out there, what are they like, how do they work. Not just a quick easy answer.

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Melenduwir@reddit

Then they're not likely to post on RedditAlternatives much, now are they?

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baxil@reddit

+1 to this. It’s been great for keeping up with friends who migrated off the hellsite, but it’s got the same fundamental structure of short-attention-span theater.

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Cheap-Victory-7309@reddit

It’s a garbage app. It lacks diversity and seems to be an echo chamber of hate and anger towards Trump and his supporters. It’s like a small minority got together to cry, share thoughts of hatred and segregation of others based On ideologies alone. It’s kind of a joke that these people Have to create their own app to make themselves feel better. There is no discussions going on there. It is just I’m right now. I’m right pretty much in middle school. You could have multiple accounts and nobody is verified so you might think it’s a celebrity or someone like Neil Degrassi but it’s not. They have a lot of fake accounts to boost their numbers. Full of bots as well

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chilldudeohyeah@reddit

Sounds healthy. Anything about Trump is so boring and toxic

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Cat-Equivalent@reddit

Bot, account created 10 days ago. 🤣 Specifically when this post was created too.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

Is there anyplace where I can hear nothing about Trump? He won, it’s over i can only ignore him and hope he goes away. I guess I should avoid all social and news media.

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DarkMayhem_X01@reddit

Is there anyplace where I can hear nothing about Trump?

Unfortunately, no. People will continue to whine, cry, and throw a tantrum about it. The best you could do is just follow the pages and people you want to follow, don't engage with the political stuff, or just block those pages.

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Lower_Classroom835@reddit

I believe it depends on your feed choices as I don't get any politics.
Most of my feed is science, and stargazing, I am avoiding politics like the plague.

I can't say I'm really active there, but I'm exploring to see if it's worth it.

I am not a big fan of quick bite information or social media in general and don't think I will be spending much time there.

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Cat-Equivalent@reddit

Imma try it, downloading today. Lol, the bots on your post say it's an echo chamber full of bots, ironically HAHA..

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Haunted_Ufo@reddit

I decided to check it out, some of my friends asked me. Jack Dorsey has already stepped down from the board, saying it's just like Twitter - making the same mistakes. So we'll see. I don't have high hopes for any social media anymore, tho.

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Cheap-Victory-7309@reddit

It’s just an echo chamber of hate and anger by the people whose candidate didn’t win the election. It’s a safe space for them to share lies and hide behind coward profiles.

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Cat-Equivalent@reddit

So what's X then 🤣

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4getgravity@reddit

They don't welcome diversity of thought in my opinion. Even though I agree with most on there I still appreciate diversity so I can challenge my own way of thinking and seek to understand the "other" side as much as I can. That is not what Blue Sky is. It's nothing but Trump haters so therefore I'm a little bored. It gets old after a while just reading what you already believe yourself.

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jkahn923@reddit

You mean ‘Blue Bubble’?

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Wise-Detective-1012@reddit

Its an Echo Chamber, probably even Fake Membernumbers, like Twitter before takeover. Media is doing alot of ads for it, alot of empty words like in the Election. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

Thanks, never been on Twitter so I probably won’t bother.

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TeeFry2@reddit

I've been on the site for 3 days. At least half my new followers are bots/trolls/Trumplestiltskins. I put a clear notice on my profile that unsolicited DMs will result in a block -- so far, at least 2 people every day ignore that warning. It's like Twitter was in 2016, but we all saw what happened to that once the felon won the election. I doubt I'll stay -- it's not worth the growing toxicity.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

Thanks, sounds like it’s not worth the effort.

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Meisterlirious@reddit

It just looks like a social app for democrats lol, it will die like all the other “competitors” soon enough. It’s also soo boring, it’s kinda like threads.

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Riverrat423@reddit (OP)

Oh, no. It looks like social media is going political like tv news.

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BeaverBonanza@reddit

I've yet to be invited in

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OldandBlue@reddit

It no longer requires an invitation, but it asks for your phone number.

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viptenchou@reddit

I just made an account and it didn't ask for my phone number.

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Vexer77@reddit

Invites no longer needed.

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HeartyBeast@reddit

Seems fine in terns of the community (Neil Gaiman seems to be doing a lot of technical support :) ) , I think the underlying federation, identity and hosting model is really interesting - basically you can host on any instance and outsource moderation policies to any provider - hosting and moderating are largely decoupled.

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MIAD-898@reddit

This aged well.

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HeartyBeast@reddit

Yes, well :)

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88superguyYT@reddit

I'm ootl, what's going on?

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HeartyBeast@reddit

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/13/neil-gaiman-screen-adaptations-halted-after-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct

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OGLikeablefellow@reddit

Oh what?

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Street_Review450@reddit

That's a great feature. No more power tripping mods who ban people just because they don't agree with the person's opinion like they do all over reddit.

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Blarghnog@reddit

Meh. Doesn’t do much for me.

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SheepishPatio@reddit

I set up an account for site updates and because it was a good excuse to get on there and have a look.

The site seems alright enough, largely artists and such from twitter posting their stuff there.

The UI is pretty snappy and looks nice, although i have had issues of it deciding to go back like 6-7 pages in my history when i press the home button sometimes, could just be a browser issue.

Its definitely less active than the fediverse at the moment, so if you want to follow some artists there incase they delete their twitter accounts or whatnot then maybe its worth it?

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