“By comparison, every time I open up Bluesky what I immediately see is a bunch of jokes from my favorite twitter personalities. They’re having fun over there. The people who made Twitter good are all congregating on Bluesky. They’re relaxing and misbehaving. It’s awesome.” -@davekarpf
@davekarpf BlueSky is an interesting test of the question of how much of Twitter’s appeal was basically reality TV-esque.
I’d argue that the secret of academic twitter was that it allowed people do vicariously rubberneck the celebs and the political pileups while they pretended to work.
But it’s unclear if BlueSky will do the second thing. Are all our old friends there? Are people nerding out about dumb shit?
@davekarpf@Chanders Bluesky’s trans community and the broader movement of transphobic moral panic culture warring are on a collision course.
And Bluesky’s incomplete content moderation and governance strategies will inevitably be weaponized by the latter against the former in pursuit of growth and legitimacy.
@bkeegan@davekarpf@Chanders I wish more folks would start to reject social media as commodity out of hand. It will never provide for those who are marginalized.
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