Social media miscellany
Since social media things interest me, I thought it deserved its own thread.
First up (staying on the Bluesky theme), this is the sort of direction I'd expect it to go, as clearly they need to make money to run the thing. At present, it has just 20 employees, but with even just them and servers/services to pay for, there has to be income.
https://bsky.app/profile/socialmedialab.ca/post/3lbny46jh4s2k
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Of course, if no-one else is interested, this thread will be an echo chamber, and that would deserve to go in the irony thread.
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I'll bite...
Something I find intriguing is the proliferation of unconvincing ai generated content on Facebook... Although it seems to have died down on my feed for the time being.
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Hmm, must have pressed the wrong buttons, but have not noticed that. Mind you, I have got the experience fairly well clamped down with a decent adblocker.
I'd characterise FB as mostly the boring option, but maybe that's by design (by Zuckerberg - e.g. throttling political content on Threads) or because of the stuff I do in it. Despite that, it's still got a pretty amazing reach, and still its worldwide audience is huge (over 2bn users still access it *every day*, and that number is still growing).
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Also @kingstongraham you might like to browse these BS starter packs for music for accounts to follow: https://blueskystarterpack.com/indie-music
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I think he's noticed. And obviously dealing with it in a totally rational way.
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And this is why Twitter is dead... at one time it was the place to get breaking news as it happened. X is now just a place where trolls yell at each other and the moon.
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Having a little amusement just seeing if anything I post gets other Blueskyers' attention... not much it seems (which doesn't bother me in the least), despite quite of few of the people I follow following me back (must admit, I can't quite see the point of that, but seems to be one of the 'done things'). Will probably just continue farting into the void with (mostly) pretty pictures, in case anyone needs a pretty picture (or one of spark plugs).
That said, the bigger political/commentators' accounts are getting a lot of interaction, at a much higher ratio of followers v comments & likes than X, so they will be happy.
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Following each other? Pretty much an echo chamber then?
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This is a significant shift - it was why Twitter was so useful and successful until Musky came along and broke it. The Syrian situation could be followed almost in real time.
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It's irritating me that my MP isn't on there.
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