I've just recently deactivated my account from X/Twitter - I gave it a shot since Elon took it over. It has become a shadow of its former self. I haven't tried Threads yet, I think I'm just gonna pause on these social media for a while.
The AI/tech ecosystem on twitter/x really generates a lot of interesting posts still. The discover algorithm is really good at surfacing adjacent content (sim clusters?).
Bluesky occasionally gets a boost of posts but then dies off. This last week's transition has been more vibrant. Simonw, danabramov, natolambert post regularly. (If you're into to the tech things I think it's finally growing. Bluesky is still pretty nasty but blocklists + sentiment changes making it less toxic.)
I think I'd like private likes and other features atproto doesn't currently allow that I think would improve algorithm signal. Currently too easy to pollute bluesky's discover with likes from too many topics.
It doesn't have all the bad x features introduced since 2022 which is nice. Bluesky recreates the active conversation feel twitter has. Does threads, or does it feel like 'comments'?
> it doesn't show me the accounts I follow but other peoples
I don't understand this complaint. The "Following" tab is prominent at the top and gives you exactly what you are asking for. It even remembers which tab was selected.
Not quite in the same way. The folk who did that kind of thing were anti-Musk so most of them left. I suppose there is a right wing group like that too but most of them were driven away earlier.
Funny, I did almost the opposite. I had an active Twitter account for years, but I decided to stop using it when Twitter banned the sitting president of the United States (shortly before he left office). I went back to it after Elon bought it.
Promoting violence. The sitting president of the US was in the middle of staging a coup at the time, and refused to call for his supporters' violence to stop, but rather encouraged it.
