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@johncarlosbaez

Try to get the Bluesky people here. Perhaps by pointing to interesting threads by yourself and by other people.

I, for myself, am not going to join anything run/funded by billionaires, even if they have genuinely good intentions (in their own wishful inner thoughts).

So, in particular, there is no way I will join Bluesky. I was vaccinated first as a late joiner to Facebook and then as a very late joiner to Twitter (two years before it became X). I am not in any of them any longer.

It's not that I am politically against Bluesky. It is simply that I completely lost any motivation to join anything like that.

And I forgot to mention the defunct Google+ in the above discussion.

I simply don't want to invest any amount of energy joining anything that will either fail on its own or that else I will like to leave when it becomes "successful".

We'd better learn how to make things work here.

And notice that part of the reason things "don't work here" (as you would like) is that everybody is disappointed with how things went in all the other (research) social media they were part of since the early 1990's.