The Fru Fru Brigade~

I know some people using it and it’s mainly because they want a new Twitter in the sense of the place where “everyone” is and “where things happen” online and they see Bluesky as the Twitter successor by virtue of it being the most obviously similar drop in replacement for it. It even has a system for automatically following people who you followed on Twitter if you both link your old Twitter handles.

It's vibes, familiarity, and ease of use, basically, combined with all their friends going there.

That, and the fact that it's not the Fediverse. There's a big market for microblogging platforms that aren't Threads or Mastodon among furries, and Bluesky happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Personally? I've been using Twitter since 2010. I liked it way more from 2013-2016 and bluesky feels like that generation of it. I actually don't hate Twitter for the way it functioned, only because of how shitty and nasty people were on it (and the accessibility for people to be nasty on it). So far there's a big push to NOT bring that energy over to bluesky so it feels like Twitter at what I consider its peak.

for me it's literally just to keep in touch with friends. I don't follow anyone or anything else over there, and honestly I have no wish to engage with it. a blue sky full of red flags.

We started using it to keep up with some friends and after about a month of using it bluesky does just feel like a worse twitter. From what we've seen a lot of people seem to like it because it's twitter with a smaller community and better vibes.

Faintly considering signing up with a code I was given because too many friends and folks are over there, despite red flags. They also say good things about it, but I'm skeptical how true they are, or how true they can remain.

I think it pretty much comes down to us seeing the structure and leadership and balking, and them seeing the content and community and glomming on. is it really relevant if it has a racism slider if you don't follow racists? can it insulate you well enough from the aspects of the internet you want to avoid? basically, is it pleasant to use in practice?

maybe we're too teleological. we've seen too many examples of shitty leadership ruining perfectly good websites to be able to relax into another one, even if it really is pretty good right now. I mean fuck I used to visit 4chan occasionally lol, I've had to learn a lot about the internet through hard-won experience to end up here. it was the bubble! who thought about enshittification, I mean AOL was still handing out free CDs, I had seen no giants fall, had known no loss. Neopets will be good forever, right? (though I hear they're attempting to make a comeback lol)

and then there's the fact that most people aren't very conscious consumers. they'll hand money to anyone if the product's right. and honestly, who can blame them? those of us who think of these things probably still have to hand massive monthly checks to the worst people we know, because what's the alternative? (that won't get you thrown in jail, anyway)

The worst part about it, as someone that hasn't gotten to actually set up an account there, is that it feels like it's impossible to actually locate specific people unless you're a part of the site first. Like I can't search for accounts without having logged in, and I can't do that without praying for an invite.