# Threads or Bluesky? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176 "2024-11-12T22:47:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/101 "2024-11-30T21:21:31Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > On BS An obvious abbreviation–but somewhat unfortunate (!) I’m not on Bluesky yet but am looking at it. I was on Twitter for several years and got something out of it; maybe I could give Bluesky a few minutes on most days the way I did with Twitter. Also, I’d be pleased to be involved with something that could inconvenience that South African git. I’ve been looking at the link that @Yodalicious posted, but haven’t found anything that looks as though it was made by Dopers for Dopers. (I’ve used search terms like “Straight Dope” and “SDMB”…“1,000 matches” to the former, so there doesn’t seem to be a way to search for the phrase rather than for each word separately.) > **[Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory](https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all)** > > Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky I also clicked on “Discover Bluesky” and though there are posts that seem unrelated to my Internet history (pics of the moon, for example), I AM seeing a lot that mirrors what I used to see on Twitter, pre-X: posters I used to follow like BrooklynDad\_Defiant!‬ ‪@mmpadellan.bsky.social‬ and ‪Mueller, She Wrote‬ ‪@muellershewrote.bsky.social‬ and The Tennessee Holler‬ ‪@thetnholler.bsky.social , etc. So apparently the page has grabbed cookies or something. (Fine by me.) ---
**Author:** ![Perdita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ebca7d/32.png) [@Perdita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Perdita)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/102 "2024-11-30T21:25:50Z")
Bluesky by far. ---
**Author:** ![orcenio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orcenio/32/1036_2.png) [@orcenio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orcenio)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/103 "2024-12-01T06:08:29Z")
I, personally, use Mastodon and bluesky (don’t have a threads account yet), but my advice is to join **everything** and use whatever gives you the least angst. Brand loyalty to an app, social network, or corporation is silly. They are all out to extract value from you via manipulation and spying (except Mastodon, but it’ll never be good for non-techies). ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/104 "2024-12-01T11:15:16Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > It is probably a _pig butchering_ scam Could be! ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/105 "2024-12-01T12:16:24Z")
I followed a bunch of you. I’m Tania. I used my real name like I’m famous or something. I just hope it will keep me from embarrassing myself. ---
**Author:** ![Strenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@Strenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strenger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/106 "2024-12-01T19:51:53Z")
Got on Bluesky … sometime last week. Only used X for local weather, and a “following” a few celebs. I never even heard of Threads, except in passing. All I know is Bluesky people/accounts have mostly migrated (or likely will soon) from X. It’s a really godawful name, but the name is an upgrade from either “twitter” or “x”: seems almost immune to make-funnability…what’s the worst someone could say? “I just blueskied a bluesky to a blueskyer”: silly, but not that bad. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/107 "2024-12-01T20:26:32Z")
Their version of tweets are posts or, informally, skeets. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/108 "2024-12-01T20:33:37Z")
Bluesky now has some 23.7m accounts, growing at about 2/sec. That’s way lower than Xitter, but no doubt many of those accounts are for bots or spammers. There’s a couple webpages with counters for Bluesky out there (one linked below), but I couldn’t find an equivalent for Xitter. > **[Bcounter](https://bcounter.nat.vg/)** > > Almost-real-time Bluesky user count ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2024, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/109 "2024-12-01T20:42:23Z")
A lot of people are quiet quitting X. They don’t want someone else taking their name so they are making the account private and deleting all of their content. That still counts as an account. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/110 "2024-12-03T22:06:26Z")
I’ve already forgotten my Blue Sky password! 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/111 "2024-12-05T21:58:59Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > I’ve already forgotten my Blue Sky password! . I’m pretty sure you can recover it using whatever email you gave them. I did join ([Sherrerd@duerpress.com](mailto:Sherrerd@duerpress.com)) and will head over there and follow those of you who named your handles in this thread. Solidarity! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/112 "2024-12-05T23:26:15Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > those of you who named your handles in this thread. I don’t understand why they used different handles in different places. I use the same handle everywhere on the net. Makes it easy to remember. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/113 "2024-12-05T23:52:37Z")
You don’t understand people having different needs than you? Or someone having different handles for different uses? Or someone having a handle that someone else is already used elsewhere? My bluesky is my actual last name. My handle here is only used here and on the Giraffe Boards since I don’t want to use my real identity (although at this point someone with enough time on their hands could mahybe figure it out). ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/114 "2024-12-06T00:32:40Z")
I would have but for some reason “Frodo” was already taken… ---
**Author:** ![plankter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@plankter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plankter)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/115 "2024-12-07T22:19:53Z")
If you don’t mind a name ending in “a”, try **Maura** or **Froda**. The first is his actual Westron name and the second is a Germanic name meaning the same thing (“wise, experienced”) with the ending changed. A good explanation on this webpage; scroll down to Etymology. [https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Frodo\_Baggins](https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Frodo_Baggins) ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/116 "2024-12-08T01:21:42Z")
It’s not a bad idea, but I’m already known as “Frodo” everywhere else (even by some of my oldest friends), it would feel weird to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/117 "2024-12-08T14:58:30Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > I don’t understand why they used different handles in different places. When I started using Twitter, I used my real name and interacted with real-life friends. When I signed up to Bluesky, I used basically the same name as here. I have a different handle for Reddit as well. Some things I prefer to keep compartmentalized. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/118 "2024-12-08T18:47:55Z")
I am Krondys… Everywhere. But anybody I interact with IRL has always shortened it to “Kron,” so I changed it on the Dope to reflect that… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/119 "2025-01-27T08:05:20Z")
My Bluesky account has the same username and photo as here. I usually try to use Atama on sites unless it’s taken, as it was both here and Bluesky. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176/120 "2025-01-27T10:23:45Z")
Bluesky has had a big surge in number of user accounts the last week where it often grew at 2 to 3 per second. It’s now closing in on having 30M accounts. Should be there some time later today (27 Jan). I understand that last Sept, it only had 3M accounts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/threads-or-bluesky/1010176.md?page=7)