After spending a month on bluesky I bring back tidings that bluesky is doing its best as a social media platform but its kind of a mess of people’s main character energy clashing with a desire to create an intersectional caring space and the moderation not being aligned with community values. Cool to see its SW and trans positivity, but I also am worried about the way I’ve watched the discourse change from uplifting Black voices to a lot of white trans folks saying they are the heart of the platform within a month’s time of user growth. Unfortunately it’s not really a great space for conversation or long thoughts because of bluesky’s poor thread implementation so most popular ideas addressing these issues feel very surface level than understanding historically systematic social problems. This leaves it to feel largely like a shitposting space and it kind of gets old having most content seeing the same people flirting through memes on your timeline everyday amongst everything else I’ve noted.
Good notes? I love the app icon. Let’s escape vector logos and graphics and just use cool photography and illustration for branding. I think that’s fun.
Also the site is very warm compared to most other social media. It feels like there is an effort for people to give the benefit of the doubt to each other which feels rare.
Think I’m mostly done using it and I’ll try being around here again. But it is exciting to see both of these platforms at least aim to be better in spite of the larger, corporate developed ones like Twitter and Threads and Hive