This more of a In Your Humble Opinion.
I think it’s finally time to get rid of Twitter. It seems the two best replacements are Threads and Bluesky. Are you using either one, or both? Which do you prefer?
I’ve set up accounts at both but prefer Bluesky. The look and feel are more like Xitter, a lot of people I follow have moved over there from Xitter, and it was much easier to set up an account there.
Made an account on Bluesky and it’s great. I stopped using Twitter long ago and used Tumblr for quite a bit afterwards, but Bluesky is a great improvement, and I hope it can keep being that way for the foreseeable future.
Isn’t Bluesky owned by some crypto bros? Pan, meet fire…
…that would be every social media, unfortunately. Either crypto bros, or tech bros, they are all in on the same grift. Here you’ve got a choice between Jay Graber or Mark Zuckerberg.
I’d personally go with Bluesky, although I find it oddly “sanitised” compared to my Twitter feed. Everybody that I follow in regards to Gaza are mostly still on Twitter. There is very little overlap with those who moved to Bluesky.
I don’t actually think that’s a huge problem as long as they don’t then start trying to control the content, like Elon did.
@Banquet_Bear: I keep procrastinating making a Bluesky account. But people I’ve seen aren’t sure it works as well for SW stuff, and there is a big deal among the trans community about how DMs not being encrypted.
Do you have any insight on the former?
I have both but I sort of like Threads better. I haven’t had them long enough to really get a great feel for them.
…if SW means what I think you mean, then maybe, but I’d really hate myself if you were meaning something completely different and replied with something inappropriate 
Sorry. I always abbreviate it that way. But, yes, I mean sex workers. I’m the wider, inclusive sense that includes basically anyone who makes money with NSFW pics.
…Emma Evans is a good follow. Here’s here intro to Bluesky that she posted on Twitter. (safe for work, but adult content)
I’m building my follow list on Bluesky. I’m not sure if I’ll keep my twitter account permanently, but I’m not ready to delete it just yet.
Bluesky is a little bit boring right now, but twitter isn’t much better in that regard.
I’m on both. Threads is a bunch of anecdotes and isn’t very serious. Bluesky is popping and has reached critical mass. All of the serious news and sports journalists have been leaving X en masse and jumping to Bluesky. Facebook is full of people giving their (mostly new) Bluesky handle.
I finally nuked my X account which I had had since 2008 around a month ago. I hated to do it because I had the @ that was my just rare last name but I kept seeing some of the most horrible racist shit on there. There is no moderation at all.
I have been on bluesky since @echoreply kindly sent me an invitation in October 2023.
Edit: Original Dope thread: Has anyone gotten an invite to BlueSky? (Open to all now, invites no longer required)
Definitely Bluesky. Threads is worthless.
Thanks for reminding me to post in this thread. I’d meant to say something when it was originally posted, but Bluesky is changing so fast that I felt like my old impressions would be inaccurate.
Caveat: I’ve never used Threads. Perhaps I’d love it, but all I know about it are the jokes about it being different corporate brands advertising to each other.
Two weeks ago Bluesky, for me, was a niche little website where I could read stuff from Mike Masnick, Ken “Popehat” White, and a few others. Most of my feed was posts and re-posts from a few prolific users that I like. I had 8 followers or so, and rarely posted anything original, though I did occasionally reply to other posts.
For the last year maybe, I’d check Bluesky once or twice a day, and could often scroll through my feed for 15 minutes in the evening and feel like I was seeing everything. In the last week that has all changed. I’m now connected to lots of people in my field and adjacent fields. They’re posting interesting things I want to read, and more importantly there are starting to be discussions about these things, rather than just sharing a link.
Just in the last hour two more accounts I follow that were popular on Twitter, but dormant on Bluesky came to life. That’s been happening all week.
If you tried Bluesky before and found it boring or didn’t like it, give it another try. To me it is very different than it was even a week ago.
One interesting thing that I believe is unique to Bluesky is Starter Packs. These are curated groups of users to follow. It can be your own person picks or any list of users that are all part of a certain group like “liberal political journalists” or “Dallas Cowboy fans”. You can find the Pack and automatically follow all of them or pick from the list.
Here is a searchable list: All - Bluesky Directory
I moved to Bluesky. It’s like twitter but nicer and it’s easy to get followers with the starter packs. I joined just over a week ago and get 20-30 new friends a day, mostly because I’ve been put on a couple.
I saw this thread and decided to try Bluesky today. I signed up as czarcasm1.
And now you have a follower.
And now I have done my first “follow”.
Hey, I’d follow you but you haven’t posted anything, so it appears I can’t.
And Czarcasm, you now have a second follower.