We need to talk

[firecat]

The New Yorker is trying to convince me that Bluesky has become annoying and everyone’s back on Xitter. Not linking because it’s paywalled. True or false?

I never got the hang of Twitter. I have similar problems with Bluesky. I don’t need a social site to deliver me more links. I want conversation. Is conversation dead? Where is it? (I know there’s some here…)

I miss Usenet, lol

Comments

[mrissa]

My sense of it is that Bluesky is somewhat better than Xitter, especially better at not forcing horrible things into your feed that you didn't ask for. (Things your friends put in your feed...well.) But it hasn't ever reached the really chatty water cooler status for me. If I want that I have to go to Discord or Slack now, and those are both walled gardens, which changes the nature of the chatting both for good and for ill.

[firecat]

Discord doesn’t do it for me, so far..
I should check out slack but I had the impression it was for techy talk only.

[mrissa]

Like Discord, the specific Slack you're on makes a huge difference in what it's all about...but also some people just don't take to one of those interfaces or another, or don't happen to have the right combination of friends using that interface, and it just never clicks for them.

Right now I feel like I'm trying to make an effort to stay in touch with people in the mode that works well for them, whether that's Slack, Discord, Bsky, one orphaned Twitter groupchat, FB, DW, texts, phone calls, video chats. But I'm better at some than at others, and most of those modes give me staying in touch with people individually rather than long group conversations.

[firecat]

Right now I feel like I'm trying to make an effort to stay in touch with people in the mode that works well for them, whether that's Slack, Discord, Bsky, one orphaned Twitter groupchat, FB, DW, texts, phone calls, video chats

That sounds exhausting…