Here’s everything we know about it so far:
- It will use ActivityPub.
- It will be a side app of Instagram.
- It will most likely be called Threads.
- Your Instagram verification status will transfer over.
- There will be easy discovery tools in place: Your Instagram followers will be able to follow you on Threads as well (they won’t transfer over automatically).
What do you think?
i’m sure this has to have appeal for someone, but i can’t think a person this less appeals to than me. i literally only use twitter because it’s incredibly useful for following happenings pretty much anywhere, and i cannot imagine anybody i care about is going to full-time switch to this platform. people are struggling to even switch to Jack’s exact clone!!
Jack Dorsey’s clone/competitor is dead on arrival for me. Dorsey endorsed an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist for the American presidential election. So… Yeah, not going to touch that one.
i’m pretty confident most of the benefits of Bluesky are also literally just “it doesn’t have all the users Twitter does” because their wait list is what, 2 million? of course the site isn’t a shitshow, it has like no people! and when it does, it’ll go just like Twitter, lol.
Dorsey’s one is the cryptobro version of Twitter (nostr). The one that says “all moderation must be done at instance level because free speech”.
It doesn’t have a single website (it’s mostly apps) but you can use web clients like https://web.nostrid.app/ to find out it seems to be populated with cryptobros and conspiracy theories.
At least BS tries to do something fediverse-like, although they’ve gone public before they managed to get their federation working so who knows how long that will last.
I was able to get into BlueSky thanks to a random person giving me an invite. The userbase is about 100,000 but I’d say maybe 10-15% are actually participating in the community.
It has a very chaotic, early Twitter feel to it. There’s a perpetual reply chain called “The Hellthread”, which has replies numbering in the thousands daily where folks are chatting, sharing memes, selfies, what have you. The userbase seems to be mostly hard-leftists, shitposters, and the LGBT community (some of the most popular users embody all three of those).
Honestly? I like it. The users there are very chaotic in poking fun at the world around them, but are incredibly supportive and positive to each other. Of the alternatives to Twitter I’ve tried, BlueSky (jack’s shittiness aside) is the service that reminds me the most of why I liked Twitter before it went to hell with bots and misinformation campaigns.