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i do not understand why everyone isnt here and have instead chosen sites like bsky like what am i missing

summer
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i'm imagining twitter as like this post apocalyptic wasteland where monsters are just eating everyone including each other and bsky is like a little safehouse up north that is constantly getting breached and nobody has come up with a long-term solution to the monster problem. meanwhile cohost is over here, a cozy little cloud floating in the sky, where chocolate rivers flow, and we just watch from above as our friends get devoured. or like i guess they're just websites

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Glenatron
@Glenatron

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.

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Glenatron
@Glenatron

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.

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eramdam
@eramdam

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

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CosmicRot
@CosmicRot

well see like.. I use both. I don't understand really comparing things like bsky and cohost, or twitter and tumblr. cohost and tumblr are effectively micro-blogging communities. They aren't direct 1:1 with most social media are are instead oriented and made to be communities of blogging so like.. centralized blogging effectively. If you don't tag things you could just have a blog that no one ever sees unless you link them, etc etc. While things like bsky and twitter are more "social media with a sharing aspect" interacting with people is more the goal and content[not in a content creation sense just as in anything that's not just talking to people] is just included and appreciated/encouraged in the space, instead of the art/writing/what have you being the main course like it is on blogging platforms... and some people just don't like blogging or vice versa.

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summer
@summer

i guess as someone who always just used twitter for microblogging that doesnt really click for me! sometimes i forget people actually use twitter to dm people and such. i think most of my online friends mostly use it for microblogging too so thats where i get confused about them not making the switch to cohost

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CosmicRot
@CosmicRot

I mean even without the DM portion of it, replying, quote posting, etc, is like waayyy more prioritized, and people will have conversations more directly with a post opposed to separate comments that aren't directly tied to said post[like reply threads read and feel different than a comment thread] and whatever cause it is first and foremost social and not blogging. Like it's not set up like a blogging platform whatsoever so even if you are using it in the same way you use a micro blogging platform, with or without algorithms, with or without DMs, etc, it's just fundamentally set up and interacted with differently, and at its core prioritizes socialization with content/art/whatever... i use most of my social media the same outside of sheezyart and the innsaanneely rare facebook usage cause they're like eons different than any other social media [excluding deviantart cause fuck them lol] but each platform is just truly set up differently, reads differently, and even if they have a huge overlap in community the interactions and content will often be different as well.

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