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   Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:35:08 JST Micah Lee

   People over on the invite-only beta of Bluesky (not sure how many users, but still a very small amount) are nice, happy, and excited about how interesting and open it is. Like Mastodon, it's an early decentralized social network (not compatible with the fediverse and like, with only one instance so far).

   Unlike Mastodon, it has much better UX, and people are very excited about getting to have good timeline algorithms that they themselves have control over. (I haven't done a scientific poll or anything, but my guess is most people online prefer algorithms to show them stuff they might miss vs. sequential timelines.)

   Everyone agrees Twitter is terrible now, but there's definitely a lot of people who haven't made the jump to Mastodon. I think Bluesky might end up attracting a lot of the people who are turned off by Mastodon being way too confusing and unfamiliar.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:35:07 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP

     @micahflee Much better UX in what ways?

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:47:18 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • かき@GNUsocialJP
     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:
     • deskJet95

     @micahflee @deskJet95 @jcrabapple What does this screenshot show?

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     Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:47:20 JST Micah Lee

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:
     • deskJet95

     @deskJet95 @jcrabapple @Gargron for context, here’s a screenshot of my Bluesky notifications tab in the iPhone app

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     deskJet95 (deskjet95@ohai.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:47:27 JST deskJet95

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:

     @jcrabapple @Gargron @micahflee If it's decentralized, then it can't work exactly like Twitter by definition.

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     Jcrabapple :virginia_badge: (jcrabapple@dmv.community)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:47:32 JST Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @Gargron @micahflee there's a large group of people who are technically illiterate and/or completely averse to change so having BlueSky look and work exactly like Twitter will be great for them.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:48:58 JST Eugen Rochko

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     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:
     • deskJet95

     @micahflee @deskJet95 @jcrabapple I'm sorry, I'm not seeing any difference to any given Mastodon app

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     Micah Lee (micahflee@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 09:48:59 JST Micah Lee

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:
     • deskJet95

     @Gargron @deskJet95 @jcrabapple that it looks and feel exactly like Twitter, basically

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     Jimbo (lawyerjsd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 10:20:58 JST Jimbo

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     • Eugen Rochko
     • Jcrabapple :virginia_badge:
     • deskJet95

     @Gargron @micahflee @deskJet95 @jcrabapple Really? The graphics of the app are looking much crisper than before. Richer background black (I use night mode), brighter whites, clearer pictures, etc. Looking better than Twitter’s app did, actually.