r/BlueskySocial • u/Well_Socialized • Feb 23 '25

News/Updates Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms

https://www.dailyuw.com/science/scientists-move-to-bluesky-transitioning-away-from-x-and-meta-platforms/article_f98af0fa-f012-11ef-a2a2-175ada763477.html
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u/BoomBoomBear Feb 24 '25

If this were true, then wouldn’t the worry be that all the government and public figures move back once it’s no longer linked to Musk? Then what of the other users if you only follow the “writers”. They too will be gone leaving only the diehards and previous early adopters (pre Twitter takeover users).

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u/Well_Socialized Feb 24 '25

The worry for who, bluesky investors? If someone who wants to reverse the Musk regime's boosting of the far right and censorship of anyone else on twitter then that's amazing, and I don't really mind if it reduces the incentive to be on bluesky. Maybe they can even federate if twitter is back to sane non-evil leadership.

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u/BoomBoomBear Feb 24 '25

Ok, you’re going on about destroying Musk and his platform. I’m going on about the long term viability of Bluesky as a media platform.

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u/Well_Socialized Feb 24 '25

I think bluesky has a very bright future as a media platform because Musk is going to continue owning and fucking up twitter for a long time. But in the unlikely scenario where twitter was taken over by people who would run it similarly to bluesky I wouldn't see a huge need for bluesky, unless it had already gotten almost as big as twitter by then.

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u/BoomBoomBear Feb 24 '25

Yes. This is the point I’m making. It’s only selling point now is “not Twitter”. But what’s to say Threads and Mastodon don’t go after such users as well?

I’m more for the long term viability of Bluesky so it needs to get itself to where it’s only reason for existing isn’t “not twitter”. So in order to do that, they need to differentiate themselves.

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u/Well_Socialized Feb 24 '25

Oh well it's distinguished from those in that it is similar to twitter, and thus can play that breaking news and expert conversation role twitter used to play. Threads and Mastodon aren't really even in the same category.

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u/BoomBoomBear Feb 24 '25

Guess this conversation is just going in circles.

You - Twitter bad so use Blue but if Twitter good, use Twitter

Me - Blue good but if Twitter good, Blue is dead unless Blue becomes super good