This is the thing.
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@kissane I'll make it declarative: it's not either-or. People can do both.
What did you think about Cory Doctorow's blog post this weekend?
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@evan Yeah, I think it's mostly communities that made homes on Twitter that went to Bluesky, at this point. (I met a lot of my friends on Twitter around 2007-2013.)
Bluesky is one of the networks I'm studying, so I opened an account there right away. (I don't bridge, because I write different things in culturally different places, but most people I know who use both Bluesky and a fedi service either bridge or cross-post. That's a small sample, though.)
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Erin Kissanereplied to jaz :twt: :wales_flag: last edited by
@jaz @chefraven @evan It's all anecdata right now, but a full-on qualitative user study is really high on my wishlist for 2025. Can't do better until we know for sure what "better" means—and for whom, since it's obviously very heterogeneous across communities.
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@evan I was offline all weekend, so I have no opinions at this time.
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@kissane
Say more, please, about the cultural differences between BlueSky, Threads, and Fedi that have you writing different things in the different places. An example perhaps? ( I’m only on Fedi. I’ve ‘lurked’ on Threads, and I’ve tried to on Bluesky but it seems harder to do there. I never was on Twitter.) -
@kissane fwiw I am not scolding or anything ( I also am on bsky) ... Just find it fascinating we will prioritize fitting in over, say, privacy/security. (Myself included!)
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@brianleroux Yeah I was more picking up Marco's points than assuming you were scolding! It's a very widely expressed set of feelings, I think.
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@EllenJS Bluesky is currently Twitter with a strong immune response against right-wing politics. People mostly get my dumb jokes without explaining them back to me. It's a place I can ask for advice on kids' books or, rarely, clothing, and get useful responses.
On Mastodon, I can talk about network stuff and get a ton of interesting, thoughtful, and generative responses, both agreeing and disagreeing (along with people letting me know I'm dumb and/or evil).
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Erin Kissanereplied to Erin Kissane last edited by [email protected]
@EllenJS On the whole, Mastodon is also much easier for me to use in ways that aren't connected to The US News and Culture Topic of the Day, which I treasure because I don't want to get my news from social media. I like the shape of the network, and I like the depth of many of the conversations.
But if I mention race or gender here I will have to spend days fielding replies from people who don't think they're a factor, or not a factor outside the US, like it was the internet circa 2003.
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@EllenJS (I don't have a Threads account and can't speak to that.)
