| Bluesky 21:40 - Nov 11 with 23983 views | BrianMcCarthy |
I think it's time for the big switch.
My twitter feed is vile at the moment.
Anyone else switching over? |  |
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| Bluesky on 10:53 - Nov 13 with 2259 views | Beckenhamhoop |
There is a lot of rubbish on Twitter and annoyingly more ads since Musk took over but it seems to have a stranglehold on this mode of communication. Mastodon, Threads and now Bluesky have all challenged Twitter and have, up until now, failed. I expect Bluesky to go the same way.
Reading this thread it seems that many people don’t use the ‘muted words’ facility on Twitter. Simply type in ‘Tommy Robinson’ ‘Diane Abbott’ ‘Meghan’ or whatever gets your blood pressure up and Bobs yer Auntie it never appears on your timeline.
Once you’ve sifted out the dross there are still some very interesting or educational content. Occasionally there’s some very good OSINT stuff around war zone which tends to reveal the actual truth regarding some aspects of combat. This is the sort of stuff you probably won’t see on MSM and if you do it’ll be 12 hours out of date. Twitter is the place to go for breaking news, I’m afraid it can’t be bettered for real time, on the ground witness testimony from members of the public.
ps. I also, thankfully, never get any porn on Twitter |  | | |
| Bluesky on 12:18 - Nov 13 with 2088 views | robith |
I personally never subscribed to the "echo chamber" theory of twitter. I'd always think "if this is an echo chamber, why am I constantly presented with the opinions of people I detest???". There was always tons of very extreme right wing on there, and likewise, left wing accounts for banned for TOS violations fairly regularly too. Certainly Musk has let the brakes off the more rightwing stuff; the For You page is a sewer, but obladi oblada.
The bigger issue is that since he took over, the site is absolutely falling apart. Regular outages (several of Musk's Space sessions during the election didn't work lol) but beyond that, it doesn't work like it's supposed to. It is swarming with bots (PUSSY IN BIO), sockpuppet accounts and glitchy Temu ads. No one used to reply to my tweets bar a couple of my friends, suddenly I would get grief-y responses to even the must mundane posts from accounts with no connection to me. Letting people buy their way to the top of replies has massively reduced their usefulness as every post is just followed by a barrage of garbage. The change to external links has made me massively mistrustful about what is legit and what is trash. Finally, reinstate banned accounts if you want under the banner of free speech, but combining that with removing the block function (and seeing what people have liked so we can't keep an eye on the type of pornography our elected officials have a penchant for) mean you've got a lot of people banned for harassment and removed people's protection from harassment - atrocious governance.
I used to just use lists but even that isn't saving me from the crud.
I used to be able to live with its downsides but under the new regime, it's an aggy, buggy mess, and I cba with it any more.
Elon has also lost a lot of other people's money on the purchase. He better stay in Trump's good graces cos the Saudis are famously forgiving when you lose $3bn of their money [Post edited 13 Nov 12:21]
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| Bluesky on 12:23 - Nov 13 with 2061 views | switchingcode |
| Bluesky on 10:53 - Nov 13 by Beckenhamhoop |
There is a lot of rubbish on Twitter and annoyingly more ads since Musk took over but it seems to have a stranglehold on this mode of communication. Mastodon, Threads and now Bluesky have all challenged Twitter and have, up until now, failed. I expect Bluesky to go the same way.
Reading this thread it seems that many people don’t use the ‘muted words’ facility on Twitter. Simply type in ‘Tommy Robinson’ ‘Diane Abbott’ ‘Meghan’ or whatever gets your blood pressure up and Bobs yer Auntie it never appears on your timeline.
Once you’ve sifted out the dross there are still some very interesting or educational content. Occasionally there’s some very good OSINT stuff around war zone which tends to reveal the actual truth regarding some aspects of combat. This is the sort of stuff you probably won’t see on MSM and if you do it’ll be 12 hours out of date. Twitter is the place to go for breaking news, I’m afraid it can’t be bettered for real time, on the ground witness testimony from members of the public.
ps. I also, thankfully, never get any porn on Twitter |
Thanks for the heads up on the muted words facility will use it. | | | |
| Bluesky on 12:26 - Nov 13 with 2044 views | Northernr |
| Bluesky on 12:23 - Nov 13 by switchingcode |
Thanks for the heads up on the muted words facility will use it. |
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. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 12:56 - Nov 13 with 1965 views | BristolR |
| 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. |
Jeez Clive, now there sounds like a man who needs some porn if ever I’ve heard one  |  | | |
| Bluesky on 14:13 - Nov 13 with 1849 views | Orthodox_Hoop |
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |  | | |
| Bluesky on 14:17 - Nov 13 with 1836 views | hubble |
| Bluesky on 14:13 - Nov 13 by Orthodox_Hoop |
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |
A brilliant evisceration of the floundering Guardian.
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| Bluesky on 14:21 - Nov 13 with 1805 views | numptydumpty |
I look at Facebook for work, leisure and posts by close friends.
X, I only started recently, bit like tiktok full of weird and dodgy videos.
Violence and propaganda seem to proliferate.
It's awful tbh.
My association was brief to the extreme !!! |  |
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| Bluesky on 15:00 - Nov 13 with 1690 views | robith |
| Bluesky on 14:13 - Nov 13 by Orthodox_Hoop |
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |
Or more accurately, since the changes to external links and the struggles of growth on the platform that pre date Musk, most of our reach comes from meta/tiktok, with a fraction of the moderation cost that now comes with posting on X, as well as inability to monetise it because advertisers won't go near a platform where someone can pay £7.99 to appear like an authorised Nintendo account posting as a Paedo Mario. But go off queen.
Very telling to me that the first newspaper to embrace Bluesky was the woke Financial Times [Post edited 13 Nov 15:02]
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| Bluesky on 15:03 - Nov 13 with 1670 views | Beckenhamhoop |
| Bluesky on 14:13 - Nov 13 by Orthodox_Hoop |
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |
It is very sad that many journalists have dropped any pretense at impartial reporting. This is another dreadful import from the US and the Guardian are equally as guilty as GB News. | | | |
| Bluesky on 16:01 - Nov 13 with 1534 views | daveB |
| Bluesky on 22:52 - Nov 12 by GaryHaddock |
Your loss Brian.
Since Elon took over, i'm being followed by hundreds of beautiful woman. Attracted to my witty contributions no doubt. |
you as well, I think it's my new aftershave |  | | |
| Bluesky on 16:56 - Nov 13 with 1425 views | simmo |
| Bluesky on 10:53 - Nov 13 by Beckenhamhoop |
There is a lot of rubbish on Twitter and annoyingly more ads since Musk took over but it seems to have a stranglehold on this mode of communication. Mastodon, Threads and now Bluesky have all challenged Twitter and have, up until now, failed. I expect Bluesky to go the same way.
Reading this thread it seems that many people don’t use the ‘muted words’ facility on Twitter. Simply type in ‘Tommy Robinson’ ‘Diane Abbott’ ‘Meghan’ or whatever gets your blood pressure up and Bobs yer Auntie it never appears on your timeline.
Once you’ve sifted out the dross there are still some very interesting or educational content. Occasionally there’s some very good OSINT stuff around war zone which tends to reveal the actual truth regarding some aspects of combat. This is the sort of stuff you probably won’t see on MSM and if you do it’ll be 12 hours out of date. Twitter is the place to go for breaking news, I’m afraid it can’t be bettered for real time, on the ground witness testimony from members of the public.
ps. I also, thankfully, never get any porn on Twitter |
I've been blocking and muting on Twitter for ages and up until the last year or so it worked pretty well. The problem is that when there's a subject getting engagement, it's relentless, and my entire feed will be dedicated to that for days at a time from all sorts of accounts I don't want to hear from, and it's like whack-a-mole trying to stop the latest shite.
There's also LOADS of horrible and needlessly cruel or OTT shit on there - from the left and right. People fighting, 'paedo hunters' that are worse than the nonces, onlyfan brasses, clips from a million podcasts of incel men and fúcking content begs, political grifters using agencies and working the algorithm to monetise division, people screaming blue murder because someone that looks like Steve Cook in a dress was called sir at Starbucks, staged arguments and 'pranks', replies from @RANDOMNAME3333782727 bots that are exclusively programmed to be contrary, people with British flags in their bio's posting pics of the Blitz yearning to go back to 'better times', people with Palestine flags in their bio telling you you're hateful scum for watching Harry Potter, and then a wider group of people that have spent so long in this hateful little space that their default is to pick fights with anything and everything.... You spend enough time on there you'll find you start falling into the same space - needless arguing and spite. The whople place is insidious.
While I'm on one - there's also an entire generation of people that have grown up with direct access to thousands of others and have lived, up to this point, with almost no consequences at all. They're all empowered through anonimity and political rhetoric to think they have a given right to say what they want and abuse people. Twitter has become a haven for all of that kind of stuff and although I only get a taste of it as mostly an observer rather than contributor, I can't imagine the shit most higher profile people deal with every single time they use it.
I left FB years ago, but I stayed with Twitter as I like the 10% that's NFL updates, funny Simpsons memes, movie discussions and jokes about Eurovision, 6ft 18 year olds and Gary Barlows massive son... I'd love to find a place that can give me more of that. |  |
| ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead |
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| Bluesky on 17:00 - Nov 13 with 1418 views | Northernr |
Replied to Hoopsa's interview with Mark Warburton basically saying I quite liked Warbs and congratulating Conor for getting the scoop.
First reply: "Get off your knees. He was part of the problem too."
That's Twitter. | | | |
| Bluesky on 17:12 - Nov 13 with 1376 views | simmo |
| Bluesky on 17:00 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
Replied to Hoopsa's interview with Mark Warburton basically saying I quite liked Warbs and congratulating Conor for getting the scoop.
First reply: "Get off your knees. He was part of the problem too."
That's Twitter. |
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. | |
| ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead |
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| Bluesky on 17:16 - Nov 13 with 1370 views | OldPedro |
Anyone know if the account @qprfc.bsky.social is actually an official club account?? |  |
| Extra mature cheddar......a simple cheese for a simple man |
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| Bluesky on 17:37 - Nov 13 with 1314 views | PlanetHonneywood |
| Bluesky on 17:00 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
Replied to Hoopsa's interview with Mark Warburton basically saying I quite liked Warbs and congratulating Conor for getting the scoop.
First reply: "Get off your knees. He was part of the problem too."
That's Twitter. |
This thread has done 3/8ths of fcuk all to entice me on to Twitter or Bluesky. You must all be gluttons for punishment and McCarthy has a lot to answer for in starting this thread! |  |
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| Bluesky on 17:45 - Nov 13 with 1299 views | GaryHaddock |
Twitter is obviously a sewer, but as long as media is driven by commercial and shareholder interests the risk will always be there that Bluesky and other media go the same way.
These guys are just 21st Century mill owners. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 17:50 - Nov 13 with 1281 views | izlingtonhoop |
| Bluesky on 14:10 - Nov 12 by daveB |
I keep getting videos of women boasting about sleeping with 100 men in one day, it's quite weird, imagine being 100th in that queue and how they do they organise the line, do you get a ticket like at the butchers |
Butchers is right. As it would be like waving a sausage at the Dartford tunnel by about 96... |  | | |
| Bluesky on 18:19 - Nov 13 with 1202 views | Gus_iom |
| Bluesky on 14:13 - Nov 13 by Orthodox_Hoop |
"This is something we have been considering for a while given the often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform, including far-right conspiracy theories and racism. The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."
Wow. Might as well just write what they're really thinking:
"We liked X/Twitter back in the old days when it was an echo chamber of like minded leftist zealots focused on identity politics and intersectional fourth wave feminism, used by the elites in power to control information by labelling anything they regard as damaging to their narrative as disinformation or malinformation. We miss the mass perma-banning of all dissenting voices, whether they were the incumbent President of the United States, opponents to mandated vaccines, laptop conspiracy theory nutjobs or just some random who accidently dead named Caitlyn Jenner. We loved that back then the legacy mainstream media was able to use its influence to shape political discourse, and hoped to do so indefinitely. Despite professing to being an impartial journalistic publication, we were praying our preferred candidate Kamala Harris would win the US election so we could revel in her/our victory by mocking Elon, RFK Jr and Orange Man. However, seeing she has somehow lost spectacularly, despite her campaign spending millions on securing endorsements from Beyonce and Cardi B, we will now throw a hissy fit and announce our plans to leave X/Twitter, blaming it all on the far-right and racism because that'll make us look virtuous. Please join us; if you don't leave X/Twitter too you're basically Hit ler." |
One ideologically-driven 'news' source complaining about, what it sees as, another.
Also.....if you want your voice to be heard, stay and fight. | | | |
| Bluesky on 18:26 - Nov 13 with 1177 views | BristolR |
| Bluesky on 17:16 - Nov 13 by OldPedro |
Anyone know if the account @qprfc.bsky.social is actually an official club account?? |
Seems to be mate, am following and had a post about the Women’s team match this Sunday
Altho they spelt Norwich as Norwhich, which is nice | | | |
| Bluesky on 18:42 - Nov 13 with 1136 views | James_Paddocks |
I've made the dart over.
X is now full of nutjobs, bots, onlyfans and gobby teenage QPR fans. It's also incredibly slow at loading.
Plus Musk is a monumental tit. |  | | |
| Bluesky on 19:05 - Nov 13 with 1075 views | Beckenhamhoop |
| Bluesky on 16:56 - Nov 13 by simmo |
I've been blocking and muting on Twitter for ages and up until the last year or so it worked pretty well. The problem is that when there's a subject getting engagement, it's relentless, and my entire feed will be dedicated to that for days at a time from all sorts of accounts I don't want to hear from, and it's like whack-a-mole trying to stop the latest shite.
There's also LOADS of horrible and needlessly cruel or OTT shit on there - from the left and right. People fighting, 'paedo hunters' that are worse than the nonces, onlyfan brasses, clips from a million podcasts of incel men and fúcking content begs, political grifters using agencies and working the algorithm to monetise division, people screaming blue murder because someone that looks like Steve Cook in a dress was called sir at Starbucks, staged arguments and 'pranks', replies from @RANDOMNAME3333782727 bots that are exclusively programmed to be contrary, people with British flags in their bio's posting pics of the Blitz yearning to go back to 'better times', people with Palestine flags in their bio telling you you're hateful scum for watching Harry Potter, and then a wider group of people that have spent so long in this hateful little space that their default is to pick fights with anything and everything.... You spend enough time on there you'll find you start falling into the same space - needless arguing and spite. The whople place is insidious.
While I'm on one - there's also an entire generation of people that have grown up with direct access to thousands of others and have lived, up to this point, with almost no consequences at all. They're all empowered through anonimity and political rhetoric to think they have a given right to say what they want and abuse people. Twitter has become a haven for all of that kind of stuff and although I only get a taste of it as mostly an observer rather than contributor, I can't imagine the shit most higher profile people deal with every single time they use it.
I left FB years ago, but I stayed with Twitter as I like the 10% that's NFL updates, funny Simpsons memes, movie discussions and jokes about Eurovision, 6ft 18 year olds and Gary Barlows massive son... I'd love to find a place that can give me more of that. |
There is a lot of staged nonsense and people making outlandish/ignorant statements simply for attention. When clicks = Money it’s always going to attract morons on the make. Also lots of people just like the attention and the chance to vent their bulging, toxic spleens.
The difference is I quickly swipe through it until I find something that interests me. It’s also maybe the case that I have a lower opinion of the human race than some and accept this kind of rubbish more resignedly (if that’s an actual word) than people who think everyone should be nice to each other.
There’s a growing movement to ban U16s from any kind of internet access and I can see why. Some children are relieved to have an internet free period as it takes the pressure of constant social contact off of them.
I genuinely think that TIKTOK should be banned from the UK. It promotes the lowest common d3nominator and standards of behaviour for susceptible young people. Its clear links to the Chinese Communist Party are enough for me (and others) to believe it should be banned. | | | |
| Bluesky on 19:05 - Nov 13 with 1074 views | FredManRave |
| Bluesky on 17:00 - Nov 13 by Northernr |
Replied to Hoopsa's interview with Mark Warburton basically saying I quite liked Warbs and congratulating Conor for getting the scoop.
First reply: "Get off your knees. He was part of the problem too."
That's Twitter. |
So Les is on Twitter then. |  |
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| Bluesky on 19:33 - Nov 13 with 1014 views | hubble |
| Bluesky on 19:05 - Nov 13 by FredManRave |
So Les is on Twitter then. |
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