Current Trending 'X'/twitter eXodus | Where to? Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon or alternative?

I setup a Bluesky account months ago but never really used it. In the past week most of the few people I followed on Twitter primarily for music content and art have moved over or now started posting regularly.

Among other things the inflammatory "Civil War" posts from it's owner in relation to what was going on in the UK were not sitting easy with me so the Twitter account I setup in 2009 was de-activated today,

I deactivated my Twitter account last year around the time of the purge of the Dublin office. I thought that was disgraceful. Probably should delete it. Bluesky sounds good. I don’t like threads. It’s very random what it shows up and no news content.

Bluesky. I’m not a huge user of Twitter, use it to follow some accounts or subjects, but it’s nice to have a version of it that works as expected.

I think their solution for verified companies is nifty, using their domain as their Bluesky handle. And the fact that you can block someone and they’re completely gone from your feed and you can set it to automatically block new ones through block lists is fantastic and should ensure that your feed is kept clean with minimal maintenance.

Twitter won’t disappear any time soon but as long as it’s happy to be a right wing cesspit promoting views that benefit its owner then it’s going to keep bleeding users.

Twitter isn’t a public square, no matter how much they like to brand themselves as one. It’s a private company that promotes viewpoints beneficial to its owner first and foremost, regardless of how true it might be.

If it were a public square, the first thing you’d hear are the views of Musk blasting from speakers at the entrance, along with a stall selling megaphones for $8. Any discussion will be drowned out by people with megaphones, while robots join in and people shilling porn. Anyone who you try not to interact with can still listen in. It doesn’t take long for you to realise that it’s a horrible place to be and you can’t have a real discussion there.

Bluesky, like Twitter before it, allows for right and left wing discussions, but it won’t tolerate hate speech or misinformation. And mercifully Bluesky does a great job of allowing a user to completely disassociate with any subject they don’t want to use social media for, because some people don’t want to see anything political in their feed which is fair enough. Having used it for a few days I’ve found it to be a much better experience.

It does read as if right wing posters are actively annoyed that people are leaving Twitter because of the abundance of Nazis and White Supremacists. If the loudest voices are that kind of person then it makes absolute sense why people are leaving.

ReaReally enjoying Bluesky, mass block lists are great, as are the follower packs. Loads now moving over. Twitter nazis crying about mass blocking is a plus!

Still keeping Twitter for now mostly because I don't post anything so never contribute to anything or get involved in discussions, but the main functionality I'd miss would actually be the likes of here where someone might embed a tweet from a thread and unless you're logged in you can't get onto Twitter to read the whole thread.

But the more people move to Bluesky the more the same content of stuff that I'd want to read is just as likely to be posted there, so I can see myself jumping ship in the next few months or at least having them both for a while. Maybe just leave the Twitter account active and logged in.

Bluesky is great, most of the people I followed on Twitter seem to be on it now, but I don't have to scroll through my feed and see videos of a black person mugging someone in Italy or tweets about a "dangerous" looking foreign man minding his own business in a Dublin park, or scumbags harassing migrants in tents. That horrible platform was just making my life worse, I don't need that sh*t in my headspace any more.

It's the new Woke Social Media, a protest to Musk

Exactly what the world needs. More social media🙄

Having used it for the last week I have started following gaming, tech, and football accounts and my feed includes posts related to gaming, tech and football.

I assume the woke part is that I don’t have to suffer utter nonsense by its owner, bots or blue ticks throughout the app.