Poll
Question:
Best Twitter Alternative
Option 1: Blue Sky
votes: 15
Option 2: Threads
votes: 1
Option 3: Instagram
votes: 1
Option 4: Facebook
votes: 0
Option 5: Arby's App
votes: 8
Twitter is becoming unusable. Half of my "For You" is Elon tweets, a quarter is similar content, and if I'm lucky a quarter might be some Marquette related content. If I search for something, completely unrelated content pops up unless I sort by latest. The last few days I have been unable to upload video like I've done for years because the frame rate is too high.
Since the election several Twitter accounts (non-political accounts) have reported losing thousands of followers. I don't know if bots are being purged or if people are just sick of what Twitter has become.
Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has tried Blue Sky or Threads as a Twitter alternative and if you have which you prefer? My problem with Blue Sky used to be that they didn't have video but that has now been addressed. Threads is ok but doesn't seem as straight forward as Blue Sky.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 11, 2024, 01:24:50 PMTwitter is becoming unusable. Half of my "For You" is Elon tweets, a quarter is similar content, and if I'm lucky a quarter might be some Marquette related content. If I search for something, completely unrelated content pops up unless I sort by latest. The last few days I have been unable to upload video like I've done for years because the frame rate is too high.
Since the election several Twitter accounts (non-political accounts) have reported losing thousands of followers. I don't know if bots are being purged or if people are just sick of what Twitter has become.
Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has tried Blue Sky or Threads as a Twitter alternative and if you have which you prefer? My problem with Blue Sky used to be that they didn't have video but that has now been addressed. Threads is ok but doesn't seem as straight forward as Blue Sky.
Blue Sky > rest
If you need to, you can use Blue Sky directory to find your twitter follows... its a chrome or firefox add on.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 11, 2024, 01:24:50 PMTwitter is becoming unusable. Half of my "For You" is Elon tweets, a quarter is similar content, and if I'm lucky a quarter might be some Marquette related content. If I search for something, completely unrelated content pops up unless I sort by latest. The last few days I have been unable to upload video like I've done for years because the frame rate is too high.
Since the election several Twitter accounts (non-political accounts) have reported losing thousands of followers. I don't know if bots are being purged or if people are just sick of what Twitter has become.
Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has tried Blue Sky or Threads as a Twitter alternative and if you have which you prefer? My problem with Blue Sky used to be that they didn't have video but that has now been addressed. Threads is ok but doesn't seem as straight forward as Blue Sky.
So, without this getting political, and I'm not sure it can because it is a highly political topic but the mass exodus over to BlueSky the past week was wild.
I deleted Twitter for the reasons you stated above. I had kept it for news feeds. Sports, local, weather, traffic, political, etc., but the curating algorithm made it increasingly harder to have that stuff at the top of my feed. In addition, every third post was an ad and the worst part was, the ads started to become unblockable or unmutable. I was over 10,000 blocked ads and muted.
Worst yet was having conversations over innocuous things such as "Bucks might not be good" with Bucks friends always invited 3-4 responses from bots about gambling or other things.
Threads is nearly as bad. It's Instagram of these types of services. Half the content is bots and it's messier than even Twitter to curate.
Bluesky is wide open now. No invite needed. A lot of Packers folks made the move and you've started to see many more national guys and gals make the move to at least post links to their things. Still needs more but starting to see a lot of familiar faces.
They've begun to allow videos, GIFs and the like as well. They've pushed a lot of useful updates through to recapture original Twitter. You can also find mass block options for users that have certain profiles or use obvious bot activity. You can even prompt it to block anyone with Badgers in their profile.
It has a ways to go but of all of them, it's currently given you the best option to curate your feed and find people interested in your content.
Quote from: Hards Alumni on November 11, 2024, 01:36:50 PMBlue Sky > rest
If you need to, you can use Blue Sky directory to find your twitter follows... its a chrome or firefox add on.
Great tip! Thanks!
Sky Follower Bridge is the add-on's name. It's... okay. It gives you a list of same names/usernames and you have to figure out who is the same person, but you can follow right there.
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 11, 2024, 01:40:50 PMSo, without this getting political, and I'm not sure it can because it is a highly political topic but the mass exodus over to BlueSky the past week was wild.
I deleted Twitter for the reasons you stated above. I had kept it for news feeds. Sports, local, weather, traffic, political, etc., but the curating algorithm made it increasingly harder to have that stuff at the top of my feed. In addition, every third post was an ad and the worst part was, the ads started to become unblockable or unmutable. I was over 10,000 blocked ads and muted.
Worst yet was having conversations over innocuous things such as "Bucks might not be good" with Bucks friends always invited 3-4 responses from bots about gambling or other things.
Threads is nearly as bad. It's Instagram of these types of services. Half the content is bots and it's messier than even Twitter to curate.
Bluesky is wide open now. No invite needed. A lot of Packers folks made the move and you've started to see many more national guys and gals make the move to at least post links to their things. Still needs more but starting to see a lot of familiar faces.
They've begun to allow videos, GIFs and the like as well. They've pushed a lot of useful updates through to recapture original Twitter. You can also find mass block options for users that have certain profiles or use obvious bot activity. You can even prompt it to block anyone with Badgers in their profile.
It has a ways to go but of all of them, it's currently given you the best option to curate your feed and find people interested in your content.
I went to Threads and it wasn't bad at first but I've grown to dislike it for all the reasons you named. I had never tried Bluesky. Thanks for the rec.
https://www.avg.com/en/signal/how-to-delete-twitter
I've found that re-cultivating my follows on BlueSky is part of the journey. There are voices and vibes I want to leave with Twitter.
The sports highlights aren't quite there yet but it's extremely easy to block grifters as there are people curating the list of them
One of you curating a list of MU/BE follows on bluesky?
Quote from: Skatastrophy on November 12, 2024, 08:54:50 AMOne of you curating a list of MU/BE follows on bluesky?
Hologram Al McGuire is but it's pretty slim.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on November 12, 2024, 08:54:50 AMOne of you curating a list of MU/BE follows on bluesky?
I have several lists for players, coaches, athletic department, MU social media, etc. on the MUOverload Twitter account. I'll see if I can replicate them over on BlueSky if they have accounts.
I created a Bluesky account when someone here gave me an access code. I followed a few people but didn't really head back until this weekend. As I was going through my Twitter follows, it didn't really hit me until then how many of my follows just have stopped posting on Twitter both recently and long ago.
I am only following about a third of the people that I had on Twitter. A lot of "institutional" accounts don't have a Bluesky one. But I also used it as an opportunity to drop a bunch.
The site itself is so clean. Reminds me of early Twitter.
I'm mostly on OnlyFans these days...
Minor Blue Sky complaint that won't matter to 99.9% of users: I can't upload videos longer than 60 seconds.
As someone looking at other people's posts, I kind of like that limit.
As someone who wants to post the Marquette Pray video, I dislike that limit.
https://bsky.app/profile/bkoo.bsky.social/post/3larqg4otpk24
Ben Koo @bkoo.bsky.social
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Threads sucks so hard and the guy in charge of it sounds like a football coach of a 2-11 team who gets mad when you bring up the litany of obvious issues and indignant that fans are clamoring change.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 12, 2024, 03:02:03 PMMinor Blue Sky complaint that won't matter to 99.9% of users: I can't upload videos longer than 60 seconds.
As someone looking at other people's posts, I kind of like that limit.
As someone who wants to post the Marquette Pray video, I dislike that limit.
Opportunity to create the Pray (Blue Sky Remix)
Quote from: Skatastrophy on November 12, 2024, 03:51:41 PMOpportunity to create the Pray (Blue Sky Remix)
Just speed it up.
Quote from: Skatastrophy on November 12, 2024, 08:54:50 AMOne of you curating a list of MU/BE follows on bluesky?
I've started a Marquette Basketball, Big East Basketball, and College Basketball list here but it's a work in progress.
https://bsky.app/profile/muoverload.bsky.social
MU Scoop is my only social media.
We know
Over the past year, I've been trying to like Threads, but it just doesn't have the content.
I've given Bluesky a second look, and .. it's a solid alternative. Plenty of content, seems like a Twitter copy. Works for me.
Threads is hampered by the same Meta algorithm that they ruined Facebook with.
how much time do some of you guys have to get such "valuable" info each and every day on top of the amounts of time ya'll spend here on scoop reading reeekos world et.al.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 08:58:30 AMhow much time do some of you guys have to get such "valuable" info each and every day on top of the amounts of time ya'll spend here on scoop reading reeekos world et.al.
4 out of 10
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 08:58:30 AMhow much time do some of you guys have to get such "valuable" info each and every day on top of the amounts of time ya'll spend here on scoop reading reeekos world et.al.
Most people don't watch cable news for three to four hours a day.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 08:58:30 AMhow much time do some of you guys have to get such "valuable" info each and every day on top of the amounts of time ya'll spend here on scoop reading reeekos world et.al.
Check with your buddy Keefe. He has all the analytics on this.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 08:58:30 AMhow much time do some of you guys have to get such "valuable" info each and every day on top of the amounts of time ya'll spend here on scoop reading reeekos world et.al.
Most of us don't pump Fox News and/or Mark Levin over the speakers in our office for 8-10 hours a day. We actually have to read to learn about what's really happening rather than what conspiracy theorists claim is happening.
Rocket, ya hit a nerve wit sum folks heer, aina?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on November 13, 2024, 12:42:43 PMRocket, ya hit a nerve wit sum folks heer, aina?
Nah, people recognize idiots like him and point it out
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 11, 2024, 01:24:50 PMTwitter is becoming unusable. Half of my "For You" is Elon tweets, a quarter is similar content, and if I'm lucky a quarter might be some Marquette related content. If I search for something, completely unrelated content pops up unless I sort by latest. The last few days I have been unable to upload video like I've done for years because the frame rate is too high.
Since the election several Twitter accounts (non-political accounts) have reported losing thousands of followers. I don't know if bots are being purged or if people are just sick of what Twitter has become.
Anyway, I'm curious if anyone has tried Blue Sky or Threads as a Twitter alternative and if you have which you prefer? My problem with Blue Sky used to be that they didn't have video but that has now been addressed. Threads is ok but doesn't seem as straight forward as Blue Sky.
I hear Elon might buy MSNBC and CNN.
Quote from: MU82 on November 13, 2024, 12:38:00 PMMost of us don't pump Fox News and/or Mark Levin over the speakers in our office for 8-10 hours a day. We actually have to read to learn about what's really happening rather than what conspiracy theorists claim is happening.
Better tan pumping the view and messnbc et al speaking of conspiracies whoa Nelly
btw, not my office anymore I'm semi retired dude
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 02:26:06 PMBetter tan pumping the view and messnbc et al speaking of conspiracies whoa Nelly
btw, not my office anymore I'm semi retired dude
Congrats to your son.
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 13, 2024, 02:26:06 PMBetter tan pumping the view and messnbc et al speaking of conspiracies whoa Nelly
btw, not my office anymore I'm semi retired dude
whatever u say dude
Rocket needs a new source now that I Infowars is going wokifying his sources of disinformation
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 12, 2024, 08:20:42 PMI've started a Marquette Basketball, Big East Basketball, and College Basketball list here but it's a work in progress.
https://bsky.app/profile/muoverload.bsky.social
I've added several accounts to the Big East list. Alot of the Big East fan-run twitter accounts are popping up over there.
Marquette seems to have the largest presence so far.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 15, 2024, 09:45:20 AMI've added several accounts to the Big East list. Alot of the Big East fan-run twitter accounts are popping up over there.
Marquette seems to have the largest presence so far.
All the UConn troublemakers are there as well
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 15, 2024, 09:51:39 AMAll the UConn troublemakers are there as well
I actually really enjoy No Escalators.
Quote from: TallTitan34 on November 15, 2024, 09:53:23 AMI actually really enjoy No Escalators.
Oh, I do, too, but he's definitely a rabble rouser. That's why we need more Big East, so he can keep making Xavier and Providence fans mad
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 15, 2024, 09:58:32 AMOh, I do, too, but he's definitely a rabble rouser. That's why we need more Big East, so he can keep making Xavier and Providence fans mad
Providence fans are mostly on Rumble these days
Ben Steele has arrived.
https://bsky.app/profile/bensteelemjs.bsky.social
God is there too.
https://bsky.app/profile/thetweetofgod.bsky.social
Won't really be successful until Nihilist Arby's arrives, though.
What? No Truth Social?
Quote from: muwarrior69 on November 17, 2024, 05:23:21 AMWhat? No Truth Social?
Oh there are definitely some users on this site.
top advertisers(Disney, comcast, IBM etc) who left X for some odd reason are now returning...weird eyn'a?
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 18, 2024, 04:45:00 PMtop advertisers(Disney, comcast, IBM etc) who left X for some odd reason are now returning...weird eyn'a?
They must like the easy access to porn. That's why it's so popular with evangelicals
Quote from: Uncle Rico on November 18, 2024, 05:16:42 PMThey must like the easy access to porn. That's why it's so popular with evangelicals
Disney and Matt Gaetz both desperate to appeal to minors
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 18, 2024, 04:45:00 PMtop advertisers(Disney, comcast, IBM etc) who left X for some odd reason are now returning...weird eyn'a?
Most aren't returning. And observers quoted in articles about those companies you named are merely speculating that the companies might return. And then only to protect their financial interests from the far-too-powerful guy who told them to "go fook themselves" not long ago.
This from Financial Times:
Lou Paskalis, chief executive of marketing consultancy AJL Advisory and a former media executive at Bank of America, said some marketers were likely to reallocate spending back to X as "political leverage", such as if they were seeking government contracts. He added companies would seek to get in the "good graces of Elon" ...https://www.ft.com/content/34b6fc20-23f7-4e08-9ac4-ef05d5d66c13
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 18, 2024, 04:45:00 PMDisney, comcast, IBM
Struggling as a business, struggling as a business, and struggling as a business. Checks out
yo! GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me.
viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!
free the viper man!
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 19, 2024, 07:23:59 AMyo! GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me.
viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!
free the viper man!
Narc
Quote from: rocket surgeon on November 19, 2024, 07:23:59 AMyo! GB's reply including a polarizing political figure sure seems political to me.
viper was banned for less...AGAIN!!
free the viper man!
Eh. Viper made an overtly political comment. Can't say he, or anyone else, wasn't warned.
Quote from: The Hippie Satan of Hyperbole on November 19, 2024, 08:09:22 AMEh. Viper made an overtly political comment. Can't say he, or anyone else, wasn't warned.
Hope he's back for the Badgers game. Very interested in his brother-in-law's take on the game
In yet another Twitter failure, searching for someone's username no longer brings up any of their tweets. Only replies to their tweets.
Twitter's functionality gets worse by the day.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change
Quote from: jesmu84 on November 22, 2024, 11:03:56 AMhttps://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endorsement-x-boosting-republican-posts-july-algorithm-change
Elon tweaking the algorithm to boost his interactions was obvious from day 1 of him taking over. It's also why they tweaked the block function because he had been blocked by so many folks.
The tweaking to promote a particular political party isn't a surprise either. It's certainly not the only social site to do that and it happens on both ends of the spectrum.
It's the natural progression of sites like that. From user friendly to something the complete opposite of that. It's the users choice to stay or go. If you stay and complain about what you're seeing, well, hard to have sympathy for you. It's clear what you're getting.