The Fall Of Twitter (Bluesky lists ahoy)

Can't help but think some of that was because BlueSky wasn't scalable. Had it been fully open to new regs, it would have caught on. The invite thing is crap. There's no immediacy.

First one worked for me. Cheers Whizzo.

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Three more codes, my spares topped right back up when the previous 3 got used.

Isn't that the definition of Brazen?



A lot of people underestimated inertia, which is weird as its been happening since the dawn of the internet/time. It takes a lot to force someone to change, even if all they do is complain about the experience they are having. There was also an assumption that 100% of people sacking off twitter would just use a twitter clone which doesn't really account for the user experience. People may have fucked off Nazi Twitter but you're also never going to get those glory days back of Snoop Dogg asking what pizza he should order or Cher tweeting about the Wu-Tang Clan again, so what's the point in signing up anywhere? The tweeting experience people loved is done. Its now just corporate accounts, bots or terrible political takes and nobody is creating a blue sky account for that.

Especially if you consume passively like 99% of people do. Like your 27k followers. 26.9k probably never posted anything. None of them are going to follow you over to bluesky if the rest of their follow list is still on twitter.

Well I take 'brazen' to mean doing something you shouldn't be doing, and there's nothing naughty or dodgy about what Bluesky is doing, it was set up originally *by Twitter* precisely in order to do what it's doing.


Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you but my point is that the Bluesky experience is pretty much exactly that old tweeting experience, albeit without the celebrities which is a plus, obviously.

I'd imagine there's a lot more bot harvesting of codes from accounts they've already got. Being able to see who has used them is also rather handy.

Did it hurt much?

Just a little prick

Also the absolute cognitive dissonance between those talking about the government trying to put microchips in you through 5G and the COVID vaccine while at the same time championing an absolute narcissistic control freak putting actual chips into people's brain is making my head spin.

He’s giving them to his ex wives to program them into loving him again

I can't get the image out of my head, of that episode of Sealab 2021 where Stormy, believing himself to be far more intelligent than he actually was, decided to do experimental brain surgery on a test monkey, and for all intents and purposes had just sawed the thing's skull open, appeared to have stuck a pair of batteries directly into the grey matter and just left the skull open, job done.

Musk's chip is about as appealing as a Dahmer trepanation.