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Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics (www.japantimes.co.jp)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

I’m curious to see what gets promoted in Japan. BlueSky’s discover feed in the US is fairly politics-heavy right now since a lot of the new users have been fleeing X’s MAGA swamp.

I have no problem with political posts, but I’m hungry for some more organic variety. If I want variety I have to put in a lot of manual work to find people and topics to follow.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention Misskey. It's a Federated platform that connects with Mastodon and the like, and has close to a million users. After Mastodon it's the most active platform in the Fediverse, and owes most of its popularity to Japanese users.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

Here we are on the Fediverse. And Mastodon exists. Why, therefore would we BLuEsKy?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can bridge them together and call it a day. Otherwise, presumably because a bunch of the interesting people who left Twitter are there and not on Masto.

I mean, don't ask questions you don't want to hear the answers to, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A friend convinced me, since they are on BSKY, to get an account. I don't really get the format of Xitter/BSKY/Masto. I tend to hang here mostly, and on Pixelfed but less so. Same disappointment on my part from those who can't leave FB/IG/Reddit because 'that's where all the cool kids are'. So yeah, I may open the app from time to time (month to month), but BSKY is not for me.

Note: We had a guy in town called MudMan, built a labyrinth some years back in a local park.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Like, was that his legal name? Because man, that's ballsy.

Anyway, I mostly agree with you, I am more at home here than on all the microblog platforms. I do feel Bsky does a better job at being that than Masto. Masto is insular and man, I hate to say it, but the way its firehose "Home" feed works convinced me that you need at least some options to handle post sorting beyond raw chronological. I don't hate it, but if I wanted a social network entirely predicated on arguing about Twitter I'd be on Twitter (and for people in denial about the popularity of their open source alternative we have the Linux forums here, so I'm good there, too).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

IANAL, and everyone calls him MudMan Johnson. Why is that ballsy? I really know very little about popular culture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not a pop culture thing, it just sounds... self deprecating, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

I hear it and think, a man of the earth. Good for you both.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Remember kids, Jack Dorsey still owns BLUESKY, and if anyone is trying to tell you he doesn't, they're lying.

Dorsey is THE founder of BLUESKY, and is it's largest shareholder, even though he is no longer on the board, and went through the theater of closing his BLUESKY account, he will have the say in pretty much everything, not the least of which, which fascist Elon Musk clone, BLUESKY is sold to, when of course it eventually it will be.

Fool me once.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Bluesky has exactly the same monetization and profitability issues twitter did, if anyone tries to tell you differently they're lying. Sooner or later Bluesky will fatten a sufficient crop of highly engaged users and run out of venture capital runway and be forced to look for someone to buy the platform. There's no way around this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

yep

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Jack Dorsey still owns BLUESKY, and if anyone is trying to tell you he doesn't, they're lying.

But Mr Dorsey is no longer part of the team behind it, having stepped down from the board in May 2024. He deleted his account altogether in September. It is now run and predominantly owned by chief executive Jay Graber as a US public benefit corporation.

You sure about that?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Fuck off with this unhinged, unsupported rant. Prove it or stop posting it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Do you have a source for the “largest shareholder” thing? I’m having a hard time finding anything about that.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago

This user is spamming the same comments about this on every post about Bluesky and their sources are "trust me bro I hate Jack"

[+] [email protected] -16 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

that's right, you absolutely are having a hard time finding ANYTHING at all about the ownership of BLUESKY, only that it was incorporated. zero on it's shareholders, zero on Dorsey's transfer of private stock/equity. absolutely nothing at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Most of the anecdotal stuff I see online says their current CEO is the largest owner. That said, you claim it’s Jack. I’m just curious about where you heard that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Holy crap, that was a hard pivot. Is your neck OK?

I mean, Bluesky is a private company, it seems to be incorporated in Delaware as a PBC and they claim it is owned by members of Bluesky itself. It's unclear if that means Dorsey divested from it when he left the board or not, and since they're not a public company they don't have an obligation to say. You know as much about Bluesky as you do about Valve or Ikea.

I don't actively support them or root for them, but it's not a particularly huge mystery, and my paticipation on it doesn't imply my moral support to their board members (who are public and known) or their investors.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Maybe Jack will sell bluesky to elon again for 50b and create another network called "freebird", lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Then definitely get sued by the washed up people still touring as Lynyrd Skynyrd even though none of them are original members

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

The ultimate grift

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Seems to be mainly because Bluesky is just a better user experience.

Changes in terms of service regarding AI (artificial intelligence), changes in the block feature and the presence of so many bot-like ‘impression zombie’ accounts are viewed negatively by Japanese users

But, X is still incredibly important in Japan and Bluesky isnt a serious threat to it culturally right now.

X is still a major, major news source for Japanese users, so it really won't slow down anytime soon. Newer platforms like Threads or Bluesky really don't have any meaningful adoption or use for brand marketing in Japan — yet

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