| Bluesky 21:40 - Nov 11 with 29012 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I think it's time for the big switch.
My twitter feed is vile at the moment.
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| Bluesky on 03:53 - Nov 14 with 2740 views | FredManRave |
Doge eat Doge.
If only we'd all put our life savings 2 weeks ago into that investment, we could now be buying the club, installing Clive as CEO, Hunter as Head of Recruitment and Brian McCarthy as head of Fitness.
Paul Parker and LBlock would be the Curbishley/Steve Gritt Combo to take us up the league with their, in your face, man management skills.
And the rest, as they would say, is history.... |  |
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| Bluesky on 04:08 - Nov 14 with 2700 views | FDC |
Early impressions of Bluesky
- Far less spam, porn bots etc.
- Lists and starter packs work well
- Prevailing vibes are "slightly smug liberals congratulating themselves on how civil they are". Reminds me a bit of a Green Party meeting i went to in Hebden Bridge in the early 2000s |  | | |
| Bluesky on 11:30 - Nov 14 with 2496 views | hubble |
| Bluesky on 04:08 - Nov 14 by FDC |
Early impressions of Bluesky
- Far less spam, porn bots etc.
- Lists and starter packs work well
- Prevailing vibes are "slightly smug liberals congratulating themselves on how civil they are". Reminds me a bit of a Green Party meeting i went to in Hebden Bridge in the early 2000s |
You've sold it to me, I'm moving over. But first I will need to do a Guardian-style flounce to announce to my ten followers that I am leaving X, because, well... errr... Muskrat...
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| Bluesky on 12:46 - Nov 14 with 2332 views | R_from_afar |
| Bluesky on 17:12 - Nov 13 by simmo |
Yet another example of something - like 95% of most peoples output on there - that would get you a firm slap if you were to ever say in person but has become the norm due to a lack of consequences.
There's a great example last week where ex-NFL player for the Eagles, Jason Kelce, was walking to a game and was followed by a group of young lads filming him on their phones and shouting after him. One of them repeatedly shouting into the back of his head how his brother is a fa**ot. In the end he turned around, grabbed the kids phone and smashed it on the ground.
A few days later Jason Kelce was on TV having to apologise for his actions, and that same little prick is probably taking him to court for damages and hurt feelings... In this case it's a shame he only got a broken phone, and not bodyslammed into the earths core, but it's a perfect example of someone that's been used to saying whatever they want on social media or playing online video games, that they forget in the real world someone might turn round and throat punch you. |
With regard to your first paragraph, the indie band Cud called it right, all the way back in 1994:
"The things that people said in private
Are the things that people shout today".
A very sad state of affairs. |  |
| "Things had started becoming increasingly desperate at Loftus Road but QPR have been handed a massive lifeline and the place has absolutely erupted. it's carnage. It's bedlam. It's 1-1." |
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| Bluesky on 12:51 - Nov 14 with 2307 views | MrSheen |
| Bluesky on 04:08 - Nov 14 by FDC |
Early impressions of Bluesky
- Far less spam, porn bots etc.
- Lists and starter packs work well
- Prevailing vibes are "slightly smug liberals congratulating themselves on how civil they are". Reminds me a bit of a Green Party meeting i went to in Hebden Bridge in the early 2000s |
I imagine even the Green Party is a lot less civil these days, given their expulsions and lawsuits.
I was reading on Bloomberg today that Bluesky users have increased from 10m in September to 15m this week. Threads has 275m. Another resemblance to the Green Party? [Post edited 14 Nov 12:51]
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| Bluesky on 14:47 - Nov 14 with 2126 views | lassel |
| Bluesky on 12:26 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
I've got more words muted than not. I'm basically trying to force it to just show me model railways, food and restaurants, rugby league and QPR. |
Fck off, we all know you’re following men’s hair styling accounts. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 14:52 - Nov 14 with 2105 views | robith |
| Bluesky on 12:51 - Nov 14 by MrSheen |
I imagine even the Green Party is a lot less civil these days, given their expulsions and lawsuits.
I was reading on Bloomberg today that Bluesky users have increased from 10m in September to 15m this week. Threads has 275m. Another resemblance to the Green Party? [Post edited 14 Nov 12:51]
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Threads is cheating though because it basically gives an account to everyone with an Instagram account one and spams posts onto Insta
Threads for my money is worse than twitter. it is completely unusable, the UX is atrocious |  | | |
| Bluesky on 15:06 - Nov 14 with 2025 views | MrSheen |
| Bluesky on 14:52 - Nov 14 by robith |
Threads is cheating though because it basically gives an account to everyone with an Instagram account one and spams posts onto Insta
Threads for my money is worse than twitter. it is completely unusable, the UX is atrocious |
275m did seem improbable given its lack of public impact! | | | |
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| Bluesky on 15:10 - Nov 14 with 2004 views | FredManRave |
So, we're all agreed, Truth Social is the best social media platform. | |
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| Bluesky on 15:12 - Nov 14 with 1997 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 14:52 - Nov 14 by robith |
Threads is cheating though because it basically gives an account to everyone with an Instagram account one and spams posts onto Insta
Threads for my money is worse than twitter. it is completely unusable, the UX is atrocious |
Agree. They've fcked a big opportunity there. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 15:40 - Nov 14 with 1882 views | CamberleyR |
| Bluesky on 16:57 - Nov 12 by FDC |
As others mentioned, there's a chicken and egg problem with migrating to a new platform, if it isn't well populated it lacks appeal.
I have an account on Blue-sky from the invite that Robith of this parish kindly shared, but have rarely used it so far.
I'd definitely like to make a permanent move though. Maybe posters here could share their IDs, start a QPR presence?
I'm @fishdc.bsky.social |
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| Bluesky on 15:51 - Nov 14 with 1828 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Meanwhile in Palo Alto or wherever that scary prick Musk is based, he's amassing a team of his biggest brains to tackle the biggest existential crisis to 'X'. Item 1 on the agenda: Who the fcuk is Brian McCarthy?
You can bet item 2 is: How much will Bluesky and/or McCarthy cost to buy? |  |
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| Bluesky on 15:53 - Nov 14 with 1815 views | Northernr |
Twitter's main strengths, for me, at its height were...
1 - Everybody was on there. Celebs, sports people, sports organisations, authors, journalists, TV and film stars, writers. Whoever you want. Whatever you're into. You could put together a really good feed of people in whatever field you're interested in. You support Hull FC? Hull FC are on there, most of their players are on there, the local journo that covers them is on there, the coach might be on there, the fanzine, loads of fans.
2 - There was really nowhere better for a breaking story or a viral moment. Something going off in London, you could watch it scroll in real time. Videos, people on the ground, people you know. Anything from a bloody terrorist attack to the 6ft blond 18 year old at Norwich, it would play out live in real time. The 'trends' was stuff that was actually trending.
They've fcked both of those things, and with it smashed its USP.
Loads and loads of people have left, and even the ones that stay you don't get to see their Tweets unless you look for them if they haven't paid for a blue tick.
My 'for you' feed is not only 95% people and things I don't follow, it's about 85% people and things I don't want to follow, have no interest in, and mostly actively hate. My 'trends' are often stuff I've told them I'm not interested in and don't want to see, and when I do click on them it turns out there's been three posts in an hour so it's not even trending. They're just forcing it on me, for reasons I couldn't possibly speculate on.
It's not longer chronological. It's difficult to follow a live event, sports match or breaking/viral news thing on there in the way you used to because every time you refresh your feed it pushes posts to the top that you've already seen based on blue tick accounts and algorithm rather than when it was posted. This David Coote thing is a good example, that would once have been days and days of jokes and memes, I'm just getting the same video/pics piped at me from 100 different blue tick accounts for engagement farming.
It's very difficult to have a conversation or follow a debate on there, because if there are 200 replies to a post you can guarantee the first 50 will be blue ticked bot accounts just saying "NICE!" or "THAT'S GREAT", mixed in with adverts for an increasingly bizarre array of tat. You often have to scroll through 50-60 posts before you get to a real person.
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| Bluesky on 16:12 - Nov 14 with 1687 views | lassel |
In all honesty Twitter won’t exist in a few years as it no longer serves a purpose to Musk.
He lent a couple of $bn against his Tesla shares to get it (Russia and Saudi paid the bulk) and his net worth has gone up c$100bn since Trump won. He can walk away now to what he always wanted, which is being Trumps leash holder. At least until they inevitably fall out irrevocably. | | | |
| Bluesky on 17:05 - Nov 14 with 1513 views | hubble |
| Bluesky on 15:53 - Nov 14 by Northernr |
Twitter's main strengths, for me, at its height were...
1 - Everybody was on there. Celebs, sports people, sports organisations, authors, journalists, TV and film stars, writers. Whoever you want. Whatever you're into. You could put together a really good feed of people in whatever field you're interested in. You support Hull FC? Hull FC are on there, most of their players are on there, the local journo that covers them is on there, the coach might be on there, the fanzine, loads of fans.
2 - There was really nowhere better for a breaking story or a viral moment. Something going off in London, you could watch it scroll in real time. Videos, people on the ground, people you know. Anything from a bloody terrorist attack to the 6ft blond 18 year old at Norwich, it would play out live in real time. The 'trends' was stuff that was actually trending.
They've fcked both of those things, and with it smashed its USP.
Loads and loads of people have left, and even the ones that stay you don't get to see their Tweets unless you look for them if they haven't paid for a blue tick.
My 'for you' feed is not only 95% people and things I don't follow, it's about 85% people and things I don't want to follow, have no interest in, and mostly actively hate. My 'trends' are often stuff I've told them I'm not interested in and don't want to see, and when I do click on them it turns out there's been three posts in an hour so it's not even trending. They're just forcing it on me, for reasons I couldn't possibly speculate on.
It's not longer chronological. It's difficult to follow a live event, sports match or breaking/viral news thing on there in the way you used to because every time you refresh your feed it pushes posts to the top that you've already seen based on blue tick accounts and algorithm rather than when it was posted. This David Coote thing is a good example, that would once have been days and days of jokes and memes, I'm just getting the same video/pics piped at me from 100 different blue tick accounts for engagement farming.
It's very difficult to have a conversation or follow a debate on there, because if there are 200 replies to a post you can guarantee the first 50 will be blue ticked bot accounts just saying "NICE!" or "THAT'S GREAT", mixed in with adverts for an increasingly bizarre array of tat. You often have to scroll through 50-60 posts before you get to a real person.
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Why don't you just stop using 'for you' then, and use 'following' instead?
If you follow a broad selection of news sites of whichever political bent you like, along with people you find interesting, you'll get an informative and often fascinating chronological feed with all sorts of links to other stories to follow if you choose.
At least that's how it works for me. | |
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| Bluesky on 17:29 - Nov 14 with 1440 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 17:05 - Nov 14 by hubble |
Why don't you just stop using 'for you' then, and use 'following' instead?
If you follow a broad selection of news sites of whichever political bent you like, along with people you find interesting, you'll get an informative and often fascinating chronological feed with all sorts of links to other stories to follow if you choose.
At least that's how it works for me. |
1 - Because it's dead, despite me following north of 1,800 accounts. Perhaps I just follow 1,800 redundant accounts, who knows?
2 - Because certain accounts I follow do not appear on there, despite me following them. My mate Sam from the Crown posts interesting travel threads, I follow him to see them, he appears in my 'for you' feed, but not my 'following' feed. Even though I follow him.
This is my live "following" thread now I've just been and looked...
1 - Glasgow Rangers podcast which I do follow advertising beanie hats which I do not want.
2 - BetFred talking about the Cheltenham Festival. I neither follow BetFred, nor give a toss about the Cheltenham Festival.
3 - A Sunderland account I do follow advertising a former players night which I do not want to go to.
4 - TNT Sports asking me "Could we be seeing Sergio Ramos in a Corinthians shirt soon?" Again, I neither follow them, nor care.
5 - Hull Daily Mail report on last night's Hull FC fan forum (the manager was there, just imagine). This is the first post that is from an account I follow and I do want to read it.
6 - A classic football clip from one of the classic football accounts I follow. Again, good. Like that. Barry Davies. LOVELY.
7 - A suggestion for three other accounts I might like to follow, one of which hasn't been active for several years, none of which I'm interested in which is why I'm not following them.
8 - A link to an article from the Telegraph. I do not follow the Telegraph. This post is from 3:32 PM · Oct 3, 2024. It's now 5.46pm on November 14.
9 - Tide Watch from the Holderness and Hornsea Gazette. Fair enough, that's on me, I follow them for their local sport.
10, 11, 12 Posts I am interested in from accounts I follow.
13 - BoyleSports offering me an early pay out on my mental acca if Bruno Fernandes calls the referee a cnt in the first half. I do not bet, do not want to be encouraged to bet, and do not follow BoyleSports.
14 - Sunderland fanzine again.
15 and 16 - Two pieces on Trump I do not want to read from a journalist I do not follow, retweeted by somebody I do.
17 - "Boost network confidence while lightening the load for IT with Juniper's AI-Native Network."
I could carry on, but is this painting a picture of "an informative and often fascinating chronological feed" to you?
Small addition, I've just counted... it took me 117 posts to get to one about QPR.
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| Bluesky on 18:03 - Nov 14 with 1345 views | hubble |
| Bluesky on 17:29 - Nov 14 by Northernr |
1 - Because it's dead, despite me following north of 1,800 accounts. Perhaps I just follow 1,800 redundant accounts, who knows?
2 - Because certain accounts I follow do not appear on there, despite me following them. My mate Sam from the Crown posts interesting travel threads, I follow him to see them, he appears in my 'for you' feed, but not my 'following' feed. Even though I follow him.
This is my live "following" thread now I've just been and looked...
1 - Glasgow Rangers podcast which I do follow advertising beanie hats which I do not want.
2 - BetFred talking about the Cheltenham Festival. I neither follow BetFred, nor give a toss about the Cheltenham Festival.
3 - A Sunderland account I do follow advertising a former players night which I do not want to go to.
4 - TNT Sports asking me "Could we be seeing Sergio Ramos in a Corinthians shirt soon?" Again, I neither follow them, nor care.
5 - Hull Daily Mail report on last night's Hull FC fan forum (the manager was there, just imagine). This is the first post that is from an account I follow and I do want to read it.
6 - A classic football clip from one of the classic football accounts I follow. Again, good. Like that. Barry Davies. LOVELY.
7 - A suggestion for three other accounts I might like to follow, one of which hasn't been active for several years, none of which I'm interested in which is why I'm not following them.
8 - A link to an article from the Telegraph. I do not follow the Telegraph. This post is from 3:32 PM · Oct 3, 2024. It's now 5.46pm on November 14.
9 - Tide Watch from the Holderness and Hornsea Gazette. Fair enough, that's on me, I follow them for their local sport.
10, 11, 12 Posts I am interested in from accounts I follow.
13 - BoyleSports offering me an early pay out on my mental acca if Bruno Fernandes calls the referee a cnt in the first half. I do not bet, do not want to be encouraged to bet, and do not follow BoyleSports.
14 - Sunderland fanzine again.
15 and 16 - Two pieces on Trump I do not want to read from a journalist I do not follow, retweeted by somebody I do.
17 - "Boost network confidence while lightening the load for IT with Juniper's AI-Native Network."
I could carry on, but is this painting a picture of "an informative and often fascinating chronological feed" to you?
Small addition, I've just counted... it took me 117 posts to get to one about QPR.
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Well that's strange, it really isn't my experience... I'm wondering whether it's your browser? I use firefox with adblock... I don't get any unwanted ads, I get a chronological feed from a broad spectrum of sites and people... not sure what else to suggest. | |
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| Bluesky on 18:18 - Nov 14 with 1315 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 18:03 - Nov 14 by hubble |
Well that's strange, it really isn't my experience... I'm wondering whether it's your browser? I use firefox with adblock... I don't get any unwanted ads, I get a chronological feed from a broad spectrum of sites and people... not sure what else to suggest. |
You do, it's obvious, you move and post somewhere else, which is what people are doing.
Let's do another one.
Probably the story that's most in my interest zone today is this David Coote business, which as I say at one point on Twitter you'd just watch scroll through and there'd be memes and jokes and whatever. That's not me passing comment on whether that's good or not, we'll probably hound the bloke to his death the way society is atm, but it is something you'd be able to follow.
Now, David Coote is not currently among my 'trends'. I can't believe that frankly. My current trends include "Bakole", who appears to be a boxer I have no interest in, "PMQs" which was a day ago and I have no interest in, and "Glastonbury" which I do not attend nor wish to.
So let's make it show me some stuff about David Coote...
First post on the search...
EnGee @_EnGee 18h
Henry Winter trying to write a supportive tweet about David Coote
This is 18 hours old.
Second post. A Johnny Sharples joke. I do follow him. But it's two hours old.
Third post, a Paddy Power spoof from five hours ago.
Reading down the next few posts are 5hours, 8hours, 21hours, 3 hours and 11 hours old.
I've seen them all today, multiple, multiple times. | | | |
| Bluesky on 18:23 - Nov 14 with 1300 views | Northernr |
Or another.
BlueSky, which I've been on for 24 hours, posted two moderately amusing jokes, and accumulated 200 followers.
Those two posts have garnered 14 replies and 64 likes from 200 followers.
This week's match report, which is always our most read thing of the week with several thousand opens, on Twitter this week has garnered 10 replies and 65 likes across the whole week from a following of 15,400 people. Because a great many of those followers are BOTS and don't exist. And because I refuse to pay for a blue tick. | | | |
| Bluesky on 18:27 - Nov 14 with 1283 views | BrianWilson |
Wonder who the first English club to leave will be? Could be us |  |
| "a diseased bunch of mofos if there ever was one, their beauty is so awesome that listening to them at their best is like being in some vast dream cathedral decorated with a thousand gleaming American pop culture icons."
- Lester Bangs on The Beach Boys |
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| Bluesky on 18:29 - Nov 14 with 1275 views | BklynRanger |
Clive you've become the Gogglebox of Twitter.
And like Gogglebox it's the closest I'll ever get to most of the actual content, thankfully. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 18:30 - Nov 14 with 1273 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 18:27 - Nov 14 by BrianWilson |
Wonder who the first English club to leave will be? Could be us |
Dulwich Hamlet 1/8
FC United of Manchester 4/5
Forest Green Rovers 6/4
AFC Wimbledon 5/1
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| Bluesky on 18:53 - Nov 14 with 3414 views | dmm |
| Bluesky on 18:30 - Nov 14 by Northernr |
Dulwich Hamlet 1/8
FC United of Manchester 4/5
Forest Green Rovers 6/4
AFC Wimbledon 5/1
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Right on, bro. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 21:38 - Nov 14 with 3196 views | DannyPaddox |
| Bluesky on 18:30 - Nov 14 by Northernr |
Dulwich Hamlet 1/8
FC United of Manchester 4/5
Forest Green Rovers 6/4
AFC Wimbledon 5/1
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Woke-ing? |  | | |
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