i do not understand why everyone isnt here and have instead chosen sites like bsky like what am i missing
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in reply to @summer's post:
Bsky is just Twitter but slightly less bad as yet. I don't think it will become good, but it's a handy reminder that even old days Twitter wasn't as fun as you thought. A kind of Twitter methodone if you will.
i'm curious what makes it slightly less bad? as far as i can tell it works the same and has all the same issues but i havent actually been on there so its all hearsay to me
Basically it has a smaller and less obnoxious community and the blocking tools are much more effective. People seem to have done much better at internalising "block don't interact" but I suspect that it helps that Twitter is now a cess pit and the people who want that environment can wallow in it there.
Like @glenatron said, there's a bit of "a bit less obnoxious than Twitter" but Bsky also has... its own brand of obnoxious people?
It might be better now that it's widely opened but during the invite-only days (before Feb/March 2024) there was that weird "in-group" mentality going on where there was this "don't let invites go to bad people" which like, while a nice sentiment isn't a way to build community whatsoever. For a while the site was ripe with discourse because turns out when you invite Terminally Online People From Twitter and give them a Twitter-like Website, a lot of Twitter-like behaviors will happen.
But maybe for people who thought that Twitter only got worse in November 2022 it's all acceptable trade-offs?
I'm on there for a few people for I treat it as "Twitter but i cant even have a locked acct", and it's made even more uncomfortable (to me) because who you mute/block is public information on top of all posts being trivially queryable/searchable programmatically, etc etc. Idk maybe it'll be fine but I can't trust it on the long-term more than I trusted Twitter pre-Elon lol
