David frum twitter6/14/2023 ![]() Twitter was always best understood as an electric boulevard of serendipity and sin. (What’s hot? Not you, apparently.) But the more people adopt the longed-for non-algorithmic timeline and who use its composable moderation features, the less Bluesky will be like Twitter, in ways its most enthusiastic boosters are simply not ready for. There’s also the “What’s Hot?” feed, which is algorithmic- and just banned nudes. It was a popular demand of Twitter users that we only see those we follow, or have a fully chronological timeline Bluesky will give that to you. But while that has set a tone for the site that feels liberating and free of the prejudice Elon Musk has unleashed, it is far from clear that this platform will become the next Twitter if the developers have their way, it won’t. In a major coup, it attracted veteran posters like US representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and the civic god of Twitter known as dril, as well as a gaggle of shitposters. Its decentralized design as a “protocol” rather than a “platform” has much more in common with Mastodon, which briefly absorbed a Twitter exodus before becoming an object of derision for what many saw as its excessive complexity and stuffy culture.įor the moment, Bluesky is easier to use, and its median culture is infinitely more freewheeling, at least on the surface. “ack selling twitter for $44b and then starting the same website and poaching all its users is so fucking funny to me like literally lmao,” reads a representative tweet on the matter. Don’t tell that to some of the site’s biggest boosters, however. Whether that’s good or bad depends on what you valued most about that era. ![]() ![]() You can “hide,” “warn” about, or “show” various categories of posts, like “Spam,” three different classes of sexual imagery, and, as my friend alluded to, “Hate Groups.” It’s the first sign that this is not old-fashioned, pre-Musk Twitter. She was referring to its series of toggles for personalized moderation. “Don’t forget to turn ‘Nazis’ off in your preferences!” a friend told me when I asked for advice about Bluesky Social, the latest fad in Twitter clones. ![]()
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