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John Scalzi@scalzi.com |
So, here's a thing: when I first arrived as a novelist, people were wondering if I would be "The Next Heinlein," and it eventually became clear that no, I was going to be the first me. It's going to be just fine if Bluesky is not the next Twitter and is instead the first Bluesky.
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Axat
@axat.bsky.social
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I am worried how are going to battle misinformation on this platform.
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ddouglas 💎 🇺🇦 🦋
@dd9000.bsky.social
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I want it to be Twitter but better, but that means news and international reach.
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Nicholas, pickle us
@nicoogden.bsky.social
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I haven't read any of your books, but I really enjoy your posts here and you seem like a really nice person so I'd like to get one. Where should I start?
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Susanne Allen
@evensong.bsky.social
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So far, it has a FAR more uplifting effect on my mood than any hour on Twitter ever did.
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Marcelo Soares
@msoares.bsky.social
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YES.
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JRSY
@jrsy.bsky.social
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I like your take on it, it doesn’t need to be Twitter, but they can complement each other
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Mavros Gatos
@mavrogatos.bsky.social
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Agreed! I cannot, for the life of me, understand this obsession for anyone/ anything to be "the next someone/ something". Sad, even for human standards...
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GIANT APES ON THE MOON!
@jay042.bsky.social
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If the cycle of enshitification can be delayed for a good amount of time we might have something. Enshitification can never be stopped, it's what TechBros are good at.
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arcadus (they/them) 🇵🇸
@imdmingyour.mom
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I really really really hope bluesky is NOT the next Twitter.
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Luke
@lukaluke.bsky.social
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The real question is why we would want to be like a failing platform? There were so many problems with how Twitter/X pushes content, it would be nice if we don't try to mirror those exactly.
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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠
@scaredy.fish
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Bluesky’s great in that its user experience is very familiar to Twitter users, but it’s the features like feeds and eventually federation that excite me.
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Gojira1000
@gojira1000.bsky.social
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Also, given its arc, does anything need to replace Twitter?
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themostnormalalien.
@dramaticdaisies.bsky.social
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Also people seem to forget that the time where regular people without large followings weren't regularly threatened, harassed and stalked by other people was only between 2017 and 2020 when Twitter thought it had to act right to be bought by a bigger company.
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On dai wai
@ondaiwai.bsky.social
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Every social media space is going to develop into its own thing depending on the crowd who use it, regardless of features. Just look at the old newsgroups: identical functionality, but radically different behaviour in each group depending on the participants and the topic.
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J. MF Grant
@deadcoil.bsky.social
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But what if my dream is still to become the next Bluesky?
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Daphné (she/her)
@daphne36.bsky.social
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Absolutely. Esp. since twitter is currently overrun by sex bots, crypto/ai bros and literal nazis. There is plenty of room to do things different and better.
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The Babe with the Power 🇺🇸🇲🇽
@babewiththepower.bsky.social
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I'd really like it to not be Twitter because I never spent as much time there as I have here. The endless drama, dogpiling, and dunking was incredibly off-putting for me.
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Mark Catoe
@markcatoe.bsky.social
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Bluesky is going to be the Bluesky of Blueskys
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Chris Wagner
@chriswagner.bsky.social
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"Myspace opens up to the world - but can anything really replace Friendster?"
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Eran Arbel
@sabrerunner.bsky.social
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This: youtu.be/Ed1t2q9C2Ac
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Graham Bennett
@thatbennett.bsky.social
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People forget we didn't have a Twitter before Twitter, and that time wasn't really that long ago either
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derek van vliet
@derek.bike
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heck yeah well said
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Just a Racoon
@malevolentmango.bsky.social
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Blue sky will never be the next twitter is the best news of the year
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Kristine Simon 🍀
@kristinesimon.bsky.social
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it has for me.. I don't go on Twitter anymore, and thankful for the new Bluesky members... I need more tech, sports, and local color from Texas, Louisiana and So Cal
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Cubes Fan
@cubesfan.bsky.social
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We can only hope it won’t be the next Twitter.
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RagmanRoman
@ragmanroman.bsky.social
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Why do we assume what is popular now will be popular forever? Dying from cholera used to be popular, but you don't see us drinking from sewage wells today
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Little, happy ray of Pitchblack
@sabineosman.bsky.social
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I really hope Bluesky won't be the 'new Twitter'. I'm growing rather fond of this place. Also I kinda hate the 'here is new thing - it's just like the old thing'. Just let's have some new stuff for a change.
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A Dianne Sullivan is editing!
@adsullivan.bsky.social
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This is so much better than Twitter. The discourse, the creativity. I miss the writing community there but eventually it will all come around. Not looking forward to the inevitable flood of bot accounts.
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EdJolly
@ejolly42.bsky.social
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Thank god you’re not the next Heinlein. That dude got perverted and weird in his later years.
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Deb Johnson
@debjohnsonart.bsky.social
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Well said! I find Bluesky a refreshing alternative in the bowl of social media soup! There is always something inspiring to read :D
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Wolf Baginski
@wolfbaginski.bsky.social
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This bear still has to use Twitter, because it still gets used by local-to-him healthcare and public transport. But I see who else is using that place and it would be so easy to walk away.
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@thethinblackduke.bsky.social
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As Stephen King said, "Everything's Eventual." Twitter had a good run but after Elmo put the stake in its heart, it's dead, Jim.
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tam🌞🌱
@tamarindapilla.bsky.social
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Same as with movies: better to be the next best new original film, than the next best remake.
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Patrick Kennedy
@dysio.de
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True, but it would be great if it replaced Twitter as a place where you can go to get important/useful information from verified accounts. That kind of "what's happening right now" utility is a large part of what keeps Twitter on life support
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Minuit
@zoroark.ca
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And yet it is still just twitter with most of the bloat removed and a better block system.
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Matt
@charliebird.bsky.social
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I stopped thinking Twitter was a net positive thing about six years ago, so I definitely don't want Bluesky to be the next Twitter.
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Corey O
@coreyobrien.bsky.social
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I hope it can! I miss twitter pre musk takeover
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Tabetha Wallace
@tabethawallace.bsky.social
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Years ago I interviewed a young physicist,Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, was being called the "next Einstein" by the media and a big part of my segment was pointing out that she should just get to be her own physicist.
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Weissening Blitz
@weisseningblitz.bsky.social
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I don't need a twitter 2.0, just someplace that isn't run by, supported by, and/or empathetic to right-wing crazy. And in the current social media sphere, they're pretty much a plague to all.
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Vidmaster
@vidmaster.net
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I am glad that “incest, but like, it’s cool” hasn’t been a prominent theme in most of your writing. I think we’re good without another Heinlein. (Love the guy, but either he got weird or his editors got super lax after Stranger because wow)
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Chillbo Hangins
@woskethoughts.bsky.social
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Real. Cuz nobody really likes what Twitter had become. Even before Errol Flusk did a capitalism on it
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Cassandra J. Tastrophe
@cassandratastrophe.bsky.social
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Stars and Darkness, the idea of Blusky becoming a new Xwitter is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh horrifying. Trans Folx and Furries built this platform and we ain't leaving.
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Fors
@waterflow.bsky.social
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Agreed. I don't want a replacement Twitter. I want something better.
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Claire
@alamode0369.bsky.social
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True...& also... I feel quite strongly, that in the multiverse where diplomacy, trade & industry isn't running its public comms via the now 5th richest, warmongering, drug addled, biggest walking mid life crisis on the planet... also isn't prepping for WW3... Just a vibe I get...
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Trickcyclist 🦋
@trickcyclist.bsky.social
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I still have my Twitter account. A few friends still have large followings but the trolling and far right shitheads are far worse than they ever been. Wading through crap to find a voice of sanity in some threads is getting tiresome. I don’t care if I get banned as it is not a pleasant place to be.
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Emily Hunt
@emily.space
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This! And anyway, it took Twitter *years* to grow and become relevant. I don't think the expectation that it can be replaced overnight is realistic. (Plus, the community when trying to insta-replace it would probably not be nearly as healthy & established as the Bluesky one is now.)
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Hwaet
@cog1.bsky.social
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I don’t buy into the argument that Bluesky needs lurkers. I read plenty of content without commenting and follow links in the same way I did on Twitter. What I’m happy not to do anymore is build myself up into a crescendo of outrage.
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Andy Watt
@basexperience.bsky.social
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Journalists miss Twitter. Normal people don’t. Nutters and grifters still think it’s ace there 👍🏻
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Chrispy🦋
@chrispygalaxi.bsky.social
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👏🏽
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Matt Hiebert
@thogstacker.bsky.social
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Heinlein? No. Vonnegut maybe.
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Matt Hiebert
@thogstacker.bsky.social
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I already liked the interface and format better than any of the alternatives.
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beat the heat by beating your meat
@salarta.bsky.social
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There’s still time to change your last name to Heinlein though!
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Colm Duffy
@colmduff.bsky.social
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Ya, agreed. It is something different to twitter that I am looking for. My mental health and wellbeing is perfectly fine without all the twit-rage out there.
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Codhisattva
@codhisattva.bsky.social
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I’m really glad you are you and not RAH 2.0. RAH was fine for the time but has aged poorly. Fortunately we have more inclusive and accepting world now and a lot less of his masculine centric heroism. He’d never have written an Emporix, for example.
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Duae
@duaecat.bsky.social
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The thing I would most like to see replaced is visible verified accounts for companies and people, especially news. Facebook is currently the best, but only because of the competition
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Lurple
@lurple.bsky.social
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I have realized, with some time here and time away from Twitter, that I don’t actually want it to be the same. Things had gotten kinda unpleasant even before Musk.
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Sy Nakamura
@theredprince.bsky.social
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Don't sell yourself short! I know you have a story about the main character becoming his own grandfather in you!
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Kip Williams sort of
@kipwilliams.bsky.social
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Turns out I was the next Arthur Ledbetter, but I still have no idea who he was or whom to ask.
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electricblue
@dreamscythe.bsky.social
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Really glad you weren’t the next heinlein
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"Noot" and/or "noot".
@velvetnope.bsky.social
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I agree. But God dam if that ain't the most masturbatory way of articulating that sentiment.
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Annika Barber
@annikabarber.bsky.social
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Thanks for not being Heinlein. I now he was kinda out there for his time, and I loved his books as a young teen. But as I got older, the way he handled women became hard to stomach. I'm glad he existed and shifted the genre in exciting ways. But we don't need more him. We need new people and ideas!
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Kate Elliott
@kateelliottsff.bsky.social
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This kind of thing reminds me, adjacently, of that evergreen question "what book do you wish you had written" which to me is such a weird question because the whole point is that I want to write MY books and to read the books I can't have written by the writers who wrote them,
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Marius
@mariuslecter.bsky.social
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Heinlein this, Heinlein that, did anyone think to consider you were the next Arthur C Clark? Shameful.
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@antony11.bsky.social
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Bluesky rocks!
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Chris W
@chriswordnerd.bsky.social
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Luckily scientists are hard at work on the next Scalzi, who is currently developing quite nicely in his gestational vat at the clandestine underground laboratory.
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Jaxspeak (Usdi Asgaya)
@jaxspeaks.bsky.social
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Everyone needs a clear view of what's going on . whats better than a Blue Sky where the truth matters and lies are ignored.
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Ursa Doom 🎨
@ursadoomart.bsky.social
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I had more interaction and response posting my art on Bluesky than on Twitter. So I think that I will stick with this place.
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Chris Vermilion
@verm.me
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Dodged a bullet there.
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Richard F Adams
@richardfadams.bsky.social
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Twitter at its peak was like lightning in a bottle. Nice though BSky is, no one will get the same impact on a platform that feels very similar. The next lighting in a bottle will be something new. Nothing wrong with that.
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John Passarella, Author
@jpassarella.bsky.social
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By the same token, I don't need it to be Facebook-lite. The only thing I really miss from Twitter is trending topics. And I don't get that in FB, threads or blue sky
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Simoslav
@simoslav.bsky.social
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Well...that's all well and good and I do agree morally...but Bluesky is a clone of Twitter in terms of layout, so obviously it was trying compete/emulate it. If it had a totally different aesthetic we'd view it more independently and not as an inferior "knock-off". I mean, it's literally identical.
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Alfred N Montestruc
@anmontestruc.bsky.social
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Have you read Niven’s Ring-world series? Any thoughts? I just got finished with Ringworld’s children.
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Sinboy
@sinboy.bsky.social
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I think the real interesting thing will be how it'll shake out when federation becomes possible.
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Tony Somogyi 🟢 🇺🇦
@tonysomo.bsky.social
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The premise of course is, simply put, preposterous. There are many alternatives to X (BlueSky, Mastodon,Threads… Substack, etc). And they’re all growing. What’s puzzling are the very large, interesting & sane accounts that remain (keeping Musk’s X solvent) to reach whom and to what end?
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DoodswithToods
@kempertainment.bsky.social
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Did we ever find out who the next Heinelein ended up being?
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I'm Reᴛᴡᴇᴇᴛ! 🌊🎶💙🇺🇸
@realretweet.bsky.social
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Jack is the ONLY one who can make Social Media worth being on. This is why I've come to Bluesky from many years on Twitter/x since Jack. 👍
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@thoughtso.bsky.social
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👆👆👆👆👆👆👆👆
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Ian Rennie
@theangelremiel.bsky.social
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And fundamentally it's not trying to be the next Twitter. It would be disappointing if they were.
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Jonathan Gilligan
@jgilligan.org
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This is true and reasonable, but Twitter used to do things that were good for society (e.g., helping journalism and providing a forum for often-excluded voices), so it's worthwhile to ask whether Bluesky can provide such services in its own manner.
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Larry Flint
@laryatflint.bsky.social
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Hopefully it will one day become the first Bluesky with a proper native tablet app ;)
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Frey/Bolt
@bolt451.bsky.social
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Although if you did combine you both the result would be "There's no such thing as a free burrito"
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Jake_Vig
@jakevig.bsky.social
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"What if different things were different?"
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BraveryTEWalker
@braverytewalker.bsky.social
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Bluesky is already its own thing because of its blocking culture. On Twitter, it was almost considered a plea of guilt/admitting you're wrong if you blocked someone. Here it's considered preserving your own sanity and not feeding the trolls.
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Auferre 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@auferre.bsky.social
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Really hoping that this will not be the next Twitter, given what Twitter became before I left in horror and disgust.
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Kraeuselhirn
@kraushirn.bsky.social
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I actually very appreciate this First You. Heinlein has his interesting points, but I would not change a new Heinlein story for a new One from you …
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Tony Stevens
@tste.bsky.social
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And you, sir, are a treasure. Thank you for being John Scalzi.
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Ron Northrip
@ronnorthrip.bsky.social
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People who don't have any creativity always looking to box us into the categories they already have made. Making new categories isn't ever in their head. Also fight the man!
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