Twitter has become increasingly unusable. I'm old and was an early adopter of the platform. (In the early days you couldn't actually upload pictures, so you'd have to upload to another service and then post a shortened link so you didn't use up all 140 characters). I was less interested in "hot takes" than I was people sharing weird things they found on the internet.
Fast forward to today, and the platform is nearly unusable for me. The almighty "algorithm" tends to push popular accounts while people who I specifically follow get hidden in my timeline. I dislike the constant coercion to engage with specific topics, and the fact that external links are penalized by the system as well as the threat of GROK scraping creative work has lead me to migrate to BlueSky. I've been on the platform for awhile now, but things are really starting to get more interesting as more people adopt it.
If you're over there and want to follow along with what I get up to, feel free to give me a follow.
And if not, no worries! I'll still be on NG.
Main Account (Film/Animation Music and personal musings)
Psychic Chime Account (Desert Sleaze Indie Rock(?))
See you on the other side, space cowboys (cowpeople?)
Nitgo
I too have a bsky account as I find it quite fun, however, I would like to mention that twitter's recommendations actually depend on what you interact with.
sleepFacingWest
Nope. That’s how it’s supposed to work but I get tons of political posts (not from people who I follow) despite not interacting with political posts. It’s likely that the algorithm is showing me stuff that people I follow tend to like and interact with, but that specifically does not apply to me. I also have a few accounts I rarely used at all that defaulted to getting blasted with right wing nuttery in the notifications. “In case you missed it, here’s an absolutely batshit take on vaccines”.
I don’t want these platforms making decisions for me or making suggestions. Just show me posts from ALL the people I follow in the order they post them and don’t threaten to feed their art to some shitty AI.