Like 'old Twitter': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
29 points by epistasis 3 days ago | 11 comments
  • bovermyer 3 days ago |
    It's interesting to see this migration starting to take hold.

    For myself, I initially chose to be most active on Threads, but lately it's Bluesky that I've been gravitating towards.

    Granted, I'm nowhere near as active on social media as I was a decade ago. However, Bluesky does feel like "old Twitter," per the article.

  • nailer 3 days ago |
    The title is misleading:

    > "The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky"

    Except from body:

    > In July 2023, Adam Kucharski asked his Twitter followers: what platform do you think you will be spending the most time on a year from now?

    > ...

    > although academics mostly stuck with X in the year after the poll...

    • malshe 3 days ago |
      The year after that poll would be around July 2024. We are in mid November now. Most of the growth BlueSky has seen is from recent months.
    • rsynnott 3 days ago |
      Did you... stop reading after the first paragraph or something? Or are you using AI-summarisation nonsense or similar? Like, this is a context-setting introduction.

      (Sometimes, I wonder if HN should require people, before they are allowed comment on an article, to complete a short quiz, prepared by the article submitter, on the content of the article.)

      • nailer 2 days ago |
        Yes, the rest of the article is filled with gems like:

        > tweaked the algorithm to amplify his own often false and conspiracy-filled tweets.

        Which fittingly is a conspiracy itself.

  • rcf1917 3 days ago |
    I didn't know Bluesky was popular. Aside from scientific community, what other "segments" actively use it?
    • Kye 3 days ago |
      The furry community got an early start, as it often does with these things, and has a significant presence.
    • 3adawi 2 days ago |
      from my observation, techies, gaming, black twitter, journalists, artists, OF models, and of course left-wing people