BlueSky

Trying to wean myself off Twitter which is hard given that I've developed a social graph over many years that follow my different interests (cycling, music, digital media, politics, urbanism and culture etc).

Interested in hearing recommendations on who to follow on Blue sky and why people think they're worth a look and not just repping their stuff on another platform?

A bunch of people were present on both BS and Twitter but having different conversations on each, now people are using their BS presences more.

Consciously decided to stop scrolling Twitter a week ago, now only have it in case of DMs/notifications, got a schoolfriend who's extremely online on Twitter who also posts his stuff on FB, but I try to avoid arguing the toss about US politics etc on FB.

Something posted on Kottke - browser extension to help you port people you've been following on that other place over to Bluesky

https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

Are we having a follow pile-on then or what?

Obviously not 😆

Been off Twitter for a month. Bluesky much more enjoyable.

^this

My fear with Bluesky is that it'll turn into the default 'lefty liberal urban elite' social media platform as we've all been grossed out of using Twitter. It's nice, but I don't especially want to be in my own echo chamber, I just don't want the rabid owner, open abuse, nazis or the porn bots...

The good thing about it is that you can run whatever streams/feeds you want. Mine are neary all cycling. I'm done with the politics but it will be there if you really want to put your hand under the hot tap. I'm done with that on social media.

I cuffed off and deleted my twitter a fair while ago because it degenerated in to just hate and bigotry instead of pictures of bikes and stuff i actually cared about. Ive just got bluesky and im struggling to get my head around how it works for feeds. Any suggestions of good tags thingys (probably not the right name for em) to follow?

1. cyclists and all things bicycle
   
2. Pro cycling chatter
   

I basically left (account still there, just don't login) Twitter months ago.
Mastodon I tried to use but there's not much happening so I rarely look at that.
Joined BlueSky and I haven't been arsed looking at it once.
IG probably gets more of my attention than anything these days but even that's very ad hoc and it's mostly time filler for some joke videos and very little useful info like Twitter used to have.
More time to read books though... :)

I know it really depends on who you follow etc etc but so far Bluesky is very American, very Cat, very pictures of the Stars/Moon/Constellations, very borderline Live Laugh Love affirmations, very pro Democrat/Liberal US politics straight out of the box.

Fucking dull.

I've been on a year but if you follow Pro race there are now some teams and enough journos/fans to make it worthwhile

For Pro Cycling, this is a good starter

https://bsky.app/starter-pack/cyclartist.bsky.social/3layjkmyr6b2a

More generally, would suggest BlueSky is maturing fast. Situation in Syria was a good roadtest of how it's adapting to real time events and whilst not quite where Twitter was pre Musk, can see it getting there soon particularly as there appears to be a lot of goodwill and people highlighting other people to follow