The great thing about skeets is gives a pretty good indicator when Bluesky will have lost the Juice: its when skeets gets replaced by anything normie-friendly RE:
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Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social)
I really love Bluesky, but I’m not crazy about calling posts here β€œskeets.” I just looked up the word, and skeet is apparently slang for ejac...
Bird sail https://shimeji.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd&cid=bafkreif4v34d6rjchbozogni5ksakmaqkoimg25rhmoacrvp2hdcvryb5q
Hot take/wild prediction: I think its likely that a core group of early adopters will soon move to a different atproto app that avoids the status/hierarchy games that are now overtaking bluesky with starterpacks
Bluesky dev: I'm gonna design an app with a clean and sleek interface Bluesky Trust&Safety team: I'm gonna make a labeling system so people can do their own moderation Bluesky user: RE:
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Aaron Rodericks (@aaron.bsky.team)
Not at all what was envisioned when labels were launched on Bluesky but the design choice to give users a bit more freedom to experiment results in...
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My main request if/when the labeling system gets revamped is that there becomes a clear distinction between labeling-as-moderation and labeling-as-selfexpression. They build for the former, and got the latter, and these are just very different usecases RE:
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alice (@alice.mosphere.at)
i think we have something good with labels going on, otherwise we wouldnt have had this explosion of labelers it may not have been what they wante...
nobody is trying to get aoc to scroll past the longcat gif yet RE:
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@aoc.bsky.social)
I don’t even know why I stopped using this in the first place? Good GOD it’s nice to be in a digital space with other real human beings. Can ...
I do wonder how this relates to the current way Starter Packs are used on Bluesky, which seems to speed up this dynamic quite a lot RE:
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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield (@mikecaulfield.bsky.social)
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No comment on whether this is a problem or not, but social networks are very clearly entering their Balkanisation era; the incentives for literally all actors is to segregate even further RE:
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Helene von Bismarck (@helenebismarck.bsky.social)
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This is at the worlds biggest bike garage and bike rental place and they still don’t have enough bikes lmao RE:
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Laurens (@laurenshof.online)
The ultimate Dutch problem is that there’s a massive line for the rental bikes
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