[Capella]

Originally Posted by Ryan There are both good bots and bad bots. A shocking number of bots are popular and highly appreciated by their followers.

Yeah, there are bots that post kitten pictures ; or the Footy Scran which posts neat food, or things like Joe Sondow's Star Trek posting bots. Not to mention there's useful bots reposting weather / traffic updates for cities. It's the use of the tech that can be evil, not the existence of it inherently.

[Ryan]

Originally Posted by Capella Yeah, there are bots that post kitten pictures ; or the Footy Scran which posts neat food, or things like Joe Sondow's Star Trek posting bots. Not to mention there's useful bots reposting weather / traffic updates for cities. It's the use of the tech that can be evil, not the existence of it inherently.

Yep. I worked with a lot of those creators in my job at Twitter since I was one of the tech leads on the API platform.

[chucker]

Joe Sondow's bots (most of them?) are now on Masto, FWIW

[kieran]

I got an invite code for Bluesky on my account is anyone here want one.

[turtle]

While I would like one, I know I'm not going to use it much and am more interested out of curiosity of the tech rather than being social. If no one else wants it, I would be open to taking it!

[kieran]

Sent you a PM

[turtle]

Thank you!

[Capella]

can I get the next one you got?

[kieran]

Sent.

I've got two more now as well if there's anyone else.

[709]

I'd be grateful for one if still available – my request from a couple of months ago hasn't materialized.

[Bryson]

I'll give it a go if you still have a spare.

[turtle]

Originally Posted by 709 I'd be grateful for one if still available – my request from a couple of months ago hasn't materialized.

I had one so I sent it to you.

[709]

Much appreciated! Thanks T.

[drewprops]

Are you all active there? What do you do? Who do you follow?


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[turtle]

I wouldn't say I'm active there at all. However I follow Kieran and 709 now.

[kieran]

Originally Posted by Bryson I'll give it a go if you still have a spare.

Just sent you a code

Originally Posted by drewprops Are you all active there? What do you do? Who do you follow? ...

I'm not currently too active there, but I really want to even stop looking at Twitter, so I'm making more of an effort this week. There seems to be more of the people I follow on Twitter on Bluesky now, so I'm making an active effort to look there.

Most of my reading is still done on Mastodon, but I'm trying to use Bluesky as well.

[709]

I stumble-fingered my email address when making my account and swapped 2 letters around. There isn't a way to update email in settings so I thought I really fucked it up and probably wasted a username. I emailed support with my mistake and given that they're probably swamped with much more important things to do I wasn't expecting a reply in the short term, if at all. Well, they fixed it and replied to my email with well-wishes in just a couple of hours.

Color me impressed.

[kieran]

The posting activity at Bluesky has increased immensely the last few days. Probably partly because of Twitter forcefully pushing users away, people who had Bluesky accounts already coming back to it, and probably a bunch of invite codes got pushed out.

Definitely a strong sense that non-tech people are going to go to Bluesky with Mastodon seemingly holding on to a smaller audience.

I like Mastodon overall better, but I do see the appeal of Bluesky, especially to people who never used a third party Twitter client. Bluesky is a clone of Twitter, better or worse.

[chucker]

Originally Posted by kieran Definitely a strong sense that non-tech people are going to go to Bluesky with Mastodon seemingly holding on to a smaller audience.

Bluesky is about two orders of magnitude smaller than Mastodon.

[drewprops]

Are any of y'all on the same Mastodon instances?

I understand that it doesn't matter, as long as your "villages" are talking to each other.

Just curious.


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[kieran]

Originally Posted by chucker Bluesky is about two orders of magnitude smaller than Mastodon.

For now. I think it's going to quickly eclipse Mastodon when signups are opened to everyone.

Originally Posted by drewprops Are any of y'all on the same Mastodon instances? I understand that it doesn't matter, as long as your "villages" are talking to each other. Just curious. ...

I joined Mastodon.social when I signed up years ago, but switched over to hosting my own instance earlier this year when I started spending time there and actually posting.

As long as you're on an instance that will allow federating to other instances, you should be good to go.

Mastodon defaults to Mastodon.social when signing up now, so if you just stick there, you would pretty much get any other instances that are available. Mastodon.social blocked some bots earlier this year that I wanted to use, so I just started hosting my own with Masto.host

[drewprops]

Managing yet another internet thing is NOT on my agenda, but I'm nonetheless curious to know if there are "vanity" instances yet - instances that convey "tech gravitas".


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[chucker]

Originally Posted by kieran For now. I think it's going to quickly eclipse Mastodon when signups are opened to everyone.

Or be eclipsed by Threads (which in less than 24 hours got two orders of magnitude as many users as Bluesky).

Originally Posted by drewprops Managing yet another internet thing is NOT on my agenda, but I'm nonetheless curious to know if there are "vanity" instances yet - instances that convey "tech gravitas". ...

If you mean instances specifically for shitposting, there's plenty.

[turtle]

I finally got my original invite request filled. Anyone need/want an invite code?

[drewprops]

Originally Posted by turtle I finally got my original invite request filled. Anyone need/want an invite code?

I'll try it, if nobody else asks?

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[kieran]

I didn't realize people were waiting.

I have 6 invites if anyone is still waiting on one or wants to hop on.

[turtle]

Originally Posted by drewprops I'll try it, if nobody else asks? ...

Sent.

I also have another 5 available. The one I just posted about was from my initial request I guess.

[drewprops]

Many thanks to T.

I opted not to add any communities.

It is blissfully silent with nobody followed, nobody commenting on my nonexistent posts, and thus my favorite social media place of all time


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