Re: The Right Has a Bluesky Problem

On Thu, 28 Nov 2024 16:30:43 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Bluesky will be similar. Just different set of turkeys.

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'

Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on
the platform they used to know as Twitter.

When Ashton Pittman, an award-winning news editor and reporter, first
joined the app Bluesky, he said, he was the only Mississippi
journalist he knew to be using it. Until about five weeks ago, he
said, that was the case. But now, Pittman said, there are at least 15
Mississippi journalists on Bluesky as it becomes a preferred platform
for reporters, writers, activists and other groups who have become
increasingly alienated by X.

Pittman's outlet, the Mississippi Free Press, already has more
followers on Bluesky (28,500) than it ever did on X (22,000), the
platform formerly known as Twitter, and Pittman said the audience
engagement on Bluesky is booming.

"We have posts that are exactly the same on Twitter and on Bluesky,
and with those identical posts, Bluesky is getting 20 times the
engagement or more than Twitter," Pittman said. "Seeing a social media
platform that doesn't throttle links really makes it clear how badly
we were being limited."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/bluesky-x-becomes-social-media-rcna181685

Elon Musk confirms that he's limiting people's ability to share
outside news on X
...
...
"Our algorithm tries to optimize time spent on X, so links don't get
as much attention, because there is less time spent if people click
away," Musk said at the time

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/elon-musk-confirms-limiting-people-022159503.html

Irrational thinking...if a person wants to read an article, most will
find a way to do so.  I've done this when a link is not cited.

time spent on X

I would like to think each viewer limits time spent....I scan
this/that, and then leave.