Notices tagged with bluesky

Cartoon: ICE-mart

#Mastodon #ICEmart #Cartoon #Bluesky #BrianMcFadden

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/30/2325027/-Cartoon-ICE-mart

Many consider #Bluesky a success, but in fact its activity has steadily declined since Trump's inauguration. The #Fediverse has had similar trends. Rapid growth caused by an external event is always followed by a slow decline back to a small base of loyal users. In a world full of dopamine addiction, it's hard to be a social network without dark patterns.

#SocialMedia

Andrew Tate isn't the only role model out there for teen boys

#Discourse #Bluesky #RoleModel #WeHuntedTheMammoth #EliThompson

https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2025/05/05/andrew-tate-isnt-the-only-role-model-out-there-for-teen-boys/

The content of my #bluescroll these days is such that I play Marianne Faithful's Why'd You Do What You Did to put myself in the moodbefore I log on to #bluesky.
#doomscroll #mariannefaithful #brokenenglish

The #tootscroll is getting there.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=XYmK3PYQnGg

Hope everyone realizes that whatever else they think about this new #Bluesky blue check stuff, that a centralized validation authority is not a characteristic of a decentralized platform.

They will never have enough data about you.
They will always ask for more.
That's how they feed the billionaires.

Leave and delete corporate social media.
Before they eat you whole.

#Facebook #X #Instagram #Reddit #Threads #Bluesky #LinkedIn #Slack #Discord #YouTube #TikTok #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy

So, it's a really bad idea to send Bluesky a picture of your official government ID!

Folks, while on the subject of #Bluesky privacy practices (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114559301810012438), it is entirely up to you, but if you get locked out of your Bluesky account and they ask you to send an image of your passport, highly recommend that you don't do it.

h/t @batist3 https://mastodon.social/@batist3/114559352437142467

Don't send #Bluesky an image of your government photo ID just to get "verified" with them. Seriously. And especially not via a #Google Form. Unless you're a serious masochist, I suppose.

They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/

#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky

'Noteable' account verification on Bluesky uses Google Forms.

So, get this. To receive one of these blue check things on #Bluesky you need a Google account and must submit your personal information using a Google Form.

Kinda feel like asking millions of people to send you personal info over Google Forms may not be the most privacy aware or well thought out way to go.

h/t @AAKL https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/114557737856374789

Cartoon: Highly selective health nuts

#WeeklyCartoonNewsletter #SupportCreativeWork #CartoonArt #Bluesky #HealthNutsHumour

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/21/2323355/-Cartoon-Highly-selective-health-nuts

@dangillmor
How do you plan to make money?

Bluesky CEO: "Subscriptions are coming soon. The next steps are to look into what market­places can span these different applications. Other apps in the ecosystem are experimenting with sponsored posts and things like that.

I think ads eventually, in some form, work their way in, but we’re not going to do ads the way traditional social apps did. We’ll let people experiment and see what comes out of it."

There you have it.

#SocialMedia #Bluesky

My collection of verified accounts of news organizations, that can be followed from #Mastodon (& anywhere else in the #Fediverse) contains now:

564 federated by @Flipboard
404 on @Mastodon
45 federated by @threads
20 bridged thanks to @snarfed.org
3 federated by @index (#Ghost)
1 on @peertube &
1 on @sharkey

https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Who's missing?

#SocialMedia #News #Press #Media #Threads #BridgyFed #Peertube #Sharkey #Bluesky #Flipboard

Cool. Look at the growth in #GhostCMS websites joining the open social web - these are new #Activtypub users. Ghost does support bridging to #Bluesky too, curious what those numbers look like.
https://fedi.wrm.sr/software/ghost

#Sunflower #Awakening by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:

https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/sunflower-awakening-kaye-menner.html

*USE DISCOUNT CODE JGBFHS for discount on ALL my prints and products.

#discountcodeJGBFHS #yellowflower #flower #floral #sky #bluesky #petals #leaves #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts

Cartoon: Spring reads

#Librarian #Trump #Bluesky #Website #NationsTopLibrarian

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/5/16/2322643/-Cartoon-Spring-reads

To be fair, this type of thing can happen on the Fediverse, too — if you are on someone else's server.

But, the advantage that decentralized social-media, over centralized social-media, is —

This isn't the end.

You can either go to another server instance.

Or, you can create your own server instance (i.e., self-host), and then no one can suspend your account.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/114495848195159122

#DeSo #Bluesky #Fediverse

New: Taking Control of Your Timeline - in Different Ways

#Fediverse platforms as well as #Bluesky offer to give the user control of their timeline - in contrast with the control that Big Tech Platforms have with their algorithmic timelines.

But the approach is surprisingly different: fediverse platforms like Mastodon give you control over *how* you see the content you follow, whereas Bluesky gives you control over *what* content you see

https://fediversereport.com/taking-control-of-your-timeline-in-different-ways/

@tchambers @bsky.brid.gy this is from fediverse side, would be cool to see also the other way around.

If i have to judge from people following me on #bluesky without following also the bridge, i suspect they are less

Cool way to track the progress of #BridgyFed, bridging between #Bluesky to interoperate with #Mastodon and other ActivityPub powered networks. cc: @bsky.brid.gy Over 105,000 of us connecting these two open social web spaces.

https://fedidb.com/servers/fed.brid.gy