I don’t think this ends well.

Deleting old Twitter accounts is cultural vandalism on a level with deleting Geocities

It's the summer holidays ☀️ and you're 12 years old. You're eating cheetos and drinking Pepsi while watching Nickelodeon until your friends come and knock for you. You have absolutely no idea about utility bills. You're going to Pizza Hut for dinner.
Life is awesome! 😌❤️

For a start, the network could share resources on how to communicate better.

Secondly, the network could share content from a diverse range of viewpoints, such that the most extreme people from both sides would not want to be part of such a network.

If Bluesky takes off, I’d be very interested to see what could be built on top of it.

It seems like a social network could probably go very far by setting up the right system of nudges.

Ordinary users don't care about decentralization in social networks like ordinary people don't care about seismic codes for buildings. Decentralization is about avoiding the once-in-a-decade disaster that can ruin a service, not about making it nicer the day you sign up.

so a couple of thoughts on what fiatjaf is saying

I’m gonna start with this: I don’t feel the same way about nostr or activitypub or most other projects. generally speaking, everybody is engaging in tradeoffs and optimizing for different things. which is a good thing

👇🏼The big tech companies complain about the difficulty of moderation, but they are loathe to give up the power it bestows on them.
I’m excited to see how decentralized moderation evolves.

Climate Change Demands More Air Conditioning An often-disparaged technology is a lifesaver, not a luxury.

Warming up, which reminds me: I wrote about why air conditioning is, in more and more places, a life-saving necessity and not a luxury.

foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/16/climate-chang...

US prisons rarely have air conditioning: a horrifying 13% of deaths in Texas prisons (271 people) from 2001 to 2019 were attributed to heat in this recent study.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen...

Surely this implementation will attempt to capture as much market share as possible?

looking back at this now that we have historical data and good visualizations, we were a vast majority of active posters (probably 80+%), and half of all native english speakers on the platform

How the hell did that happen?

For years I've watched with amusement as people compared an old community to a new, always extolling how *friendly* the new community was. Such enthusiasm was noted towards Twitter, Reddit, and even Facebook in their earliest years. But... things change.

watching several different political factions claim that bluesky belongs to their faction and leaning back and smiling as the spirit of twitter forms itself out of the dust

I am intrigued by the notion of custom feed algorithms. I have no doubt that this will lead to more people being in echo chambers, but we already tried having Twitter as the public square and that didn’t really work out.

can i just step in here to ask, in a moment of relative chill before whatever next week brings, that we

- not make death threats
- block more, bully less

Omg, so much high school level drama here…

the most hateful person you’ve ever met was a baby once. nobody is born that way. things happen between being a baby and now to turn people towards hatred and they are all heartbreaking

Spoke with @zoink.bsky.social this morning about growth. His advice: by the time you do analysis on what behaviors lead to retention, it’s too late. You probably have a hypothesis (ie. following people, having a stream of content) that is true - just go execute on that. (Can do analysis in tandem)

But, you know, I’ll just see how things evolve

I’m here, but posting a bunch of x-risk stuff would totally go against the vibe

Can't wait until federation allows us to split into Yglesians and Antiyglesians so we can all live in peace and harmony.

Who begs for an invite code just to show up with a bunch of nonsense. Social media is what you make it. Being a terrible human is optional and unnecessary.

The What’s Hot feed is a placeholder example of a custom algorithm. It will change often until third-party feeds ship.

Long-term, you’ll be able to put any algorithm you want in the space where the What’s Hot feed is. Try out a new client like skyline.gay to see an evolving example of this!

do you have a checklist of the things you're aiming to get to before shipping? I would LOVE to see multiQT

here's my design doc for the feature malcolmocean.com/2021/11/twitter-multi-qu...
- why it matters (so conversations can converge, not just diverge)
- examples
- ui ideas

The last few weekends have been demarcated with specific groups onboarding to Bluesky. Three weekends ago, it was tpot. Two weekends ago, it was art Twitter. Last weekend, it was black tech Twitter. This weekend… collective nudes? Good night y’all ✌️ can’t wait to see what tomorrow brings