#Digitalfootprint - #socialmedia posts should (be able to) be ephemeral for various reasons! #Bluesky is so FANtastic?! #WTF! I seriously need an external tool to delete many #Skeets at once or to make them disappear after a certain time? Really? What a rubbish system! #privacy

Die IOS App für das Social Media Netzwerk Bluesky (bsky.app) kann ich im Moment nicht empfehlen, da die Entwickler Trackingfunktionen über sentry.io eingebaut haben. 🤷‍♂️

Aktuell empfehle ich Skeets für IOS (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/skeets-for-bluesky/id6466340923)

#bluesky #bsky #app #ios #tracking #sentry #datenschutz #skeets

Independent Berlin based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, father of #Skeets, a popular 3rd party #Bluesky iOS client, is currently building a photo viewing client called #Flashes, which is also powered by the #ATProtocol. I for sure will keep my eye on that.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/

All I See Are Sick People

Everyone around me is sick right now, and I just want them to get away from me. Yesterday, the lead inspector came, and he was sick too. Even when I stay away from the outside, the outside comes to me.

#Skeets for Bluesky - an accessible 3rd party iPhone/iPad client for Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/skeetsapp.com Available from the Apple App Store at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skeets-for-bluesky/id6466340923 #Bluesky #blind #a11y #iOS

Bluesky’s blockbuster week

Something remarkable has happened in social media over the last seven days: A non-trivial number of people hit a personal breaking point with X, Threads or both and either set up Bluesky accounts or started using ones there that they’d left dormant for months.

Since last weekend, the decentralized short-form social platform launched in 2019 as a Twitter research project and that required an invite code to use only nine months ago has seen its user totals climb by about a million people a day above previously modest numbers–from more than 15 million users on Wednesday to above 18 million users per a real-time count Saturday night. As I write this, Bluesky sits atop the chart of free Android apps and is ranked second after Netflix in the iOS free-apps chart.

My own follower total has about tripled over the past week, which looks like table-stakes growth compared to what other people have reported.

But the stats barely tell the tale. So many of the people whom I used to regard as my reward for putting up with the noise of Twitter even after Elon Musk’s conquest of the platform have pivoted to posting mainly or only on Bluesky. Some examples: the avgeek community (but not yet airlines), a recently-growing slice of Election Twitter, even some of my local elected representatives and such local appointed political types as Metro’s can-do general manager Randy Clarke.

(Disclosure: I sent a constituent e-mail last Friday to the youngest member of the Arlington County Board, Maureen Coffey, asking her to try meeting her constituents on Bluesky and suggesting two Arlington-related starter packs of people to follow. Coffey has since become an active user, not that I necessarily had anything to do with that.)

Many of these new Bluesky arrivals appear to have reacted to Musk putting his billionaire foot on the scale to support Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House by outright deleting their Twitter/X accounts, then sharing a screenshot or a GIF on Bluesky of their “X-it.”

(I’m keeping my Xitter account public and not deleting my past tweets—I’ve linked to them too many times, and sometimes find that the easiest way to find an old link is to search for a tweet that shared it. I also continue to read X, although that’s become increasingly unnecessary over just the past week.)

Other recent Bluesky converts have pointed to Meta downranking political and news discussions on Threads in favor of… whatever Meta’s inscrutable algorithm shoves into the “for your” timeline that I can’t opt out of on the platform that still gets far more traffic than Bluesky. As former Republican campaign strategist turned never-Trump activist Rick Wilson wrote Monday on Bluesky: “I’d hoped threads would be at least somewhat flexible about political content, but here we are.”

Everybody can bring their own reason for making this decision. Mine starts with business logic–why should I bother sharing my work on X when that site downranks posts with links?–but cannot be separated from Musk’s moves to turn that platform into his own right-wing propaganda playground. Especially when that playground has welcomed back such loathsome liars as disgraced conspiracy “theorist” Alex Jones.

Meanwhile, I can’t look at the Threads app icon on my phone without thinking of how Meta has consistently shown how little it values my profession. Or how the day-to-day experience of algorithmically-pushed slop on Facebook makes me wonder what Threads will look like once it starts welcoming advertisers.

For several months, I thought that Mastodon might be the short-form-social escape pod I needed, but Bluesky has delivered a simpler setup experience and, more importantly, is built on an open-source protocol that allows for a complete export of your account to another server. That option exists more in theory than in practice to date, but it’s not possible at X and consists only of a sort of settings portability at Mastodon. Bluesky is now the better bet.

So that’s how I am refusing to stay with a platform owned by somebody who considers people in my line of work an obsolete obstacle–or to switch to another platform owned by somebody else who seems to sees little more value in my profession. I may not stop either of those services from ending up with the most eyeballs, but that doesn’t require me to lend my own eyeballs, much less my own typing fingers, to their causes.

#ATProto #Bluesky #bsky #ElectionTwitter #ElonMuskTwitter #fediverse #Mastodon #skeets #socialMedia #tweets #X #XOdus #Xit

For any #Blind folks interested in #Bluesky but worried about the native app's #Accessibility, you have options. #Skeets for #iOS is a native Bluesky client that's mostly free and works beautifully with #VoiceOver. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/skeets-for-bluesky/id6466340923 It's also possible to post to and interact with your Bluesky feed via #Mona or your #Mastodon app of choice. Learn how here: https://skybridge.fly.dev/ And I'm @dotsonapage there too, so why not give me a follow? Might encourage me to post more.

Es gibt mit #skeets eine neue App für #Bluesky, im Gegensatz zur pausenlos abstürzenden Graysky App deutlich stabiler.

Wer nicht die offizielle #App des sozialen Netzwerks #Bluesky nutzen möchte, findet langsam immer mehr Möglichkeiten, auch auf #Drittanbieter-Anwendungen zurückgreifen zu können. Neben #Graysky mischt nun auch seit einiger Zeit die aus deutscher Entwicklung stammende App #Skeets for Bluesky in diesem Genre mit, die einige Alleinstellungsmerkmale bietet.
Mehr zu Skeets: https://www.appgefahren.de/?p=360441

#appgefahren #Apple #AppleBlog #iPhone #iPad #Mac #sozialesNetzwerk #Fediverse

Idk why people in #Bluesky unironically went with #skeets, the word sounds like some R-18 I see in The Pirate Bay while searching ​:kyou:​

RE: https://furry.engineer/users/Flaky/statuses/112065913106610571

An meine #blinden Follower, die auch drüben bei #Bluesky sind. Mit #Skeets gibt es endlich eine gut zugängliche App. Sebastian, der Entwickler hat in kurzer Zeit #VoiceOver Aktionen eingebaut und ist für Feedback dankbar. https://apps.apple.com/de/app/skeets/id6466340923

So, when you #post something here. What is it normally called? I know that on #Twitter it is #Tweets , and #Bluesky has the #skeets, what about the #fediverse #mastodon ?

(11/11)

... dies mit der #LGTBQIA+-Community sehr gut funktioniert hat.

/ENDE

#rechtsradikalen #schwarzen #twitter #bluesky #europaischen #fediverse #integration #diversitat #aveta #black #blacktwitter #techcommunities #racism #sozialenmedien #mastodon #socialmedia #facebook #skeets #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

@2ndStar

@Alphacordi

(10/n)

... #Rechtsradikalen den Nährboden entzieht.

Naturgemäß wäre dies schwieriger als bei den meist mit Englisch als Muttersprache ausgewachsenen #Schwarzen auf #Twitter und #BlueSky.

Es wäre jedoch ein guter Anfang.
Mein Eindruck ist, dass...

#europaischen #fediverse #integration #diversitat #aveta #black #bluesky #blacktwitter #techcommunities #racism #schwarzen #sozialenmedien #mastodon #twitter #socialmedia #facebook #skeets #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

(9/n)

... wäre es mal ein erfolgversprechender Ansatz, wenn die #europäischen #Fediverse-Nutzer sich verstärkt um die #Integration ihrer vielfältigen ethnischen Minderheiten kümmern würden?
#Diversität kreiert interessanteren Content und erzeugt Verständnis  für andere Kulturen, was...

#aveta #black #bluesky #blacktwitter #techcommunities #racism #schwarzen #sozialenmedien #mastodon #twitter #socialmedia #facebook #fediverse #skeets #diversitat #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

(8/n)

... disregard that👈,” #Aveta said."

"Before Aveta started inviting other #Black users to #Bluesky, the site was “very white, very quiet and very small.” She said 👉there was a noticeable vibe shift as more of #BlackTwitter joined. 👈"

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05…

Vielleicht...

#black #techcommunities #racism #schwarzen #sozialenmedien #bluesky #mastodon #twitter #socialmedia #facebook #fediverse #skeets #diversitat #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

(7/n)

... said, because #Black communities  the culture of social platforms like #Twitter, #Instagram, and #TikTok. 

“It’s so crazy that despite how much time has passed, exposing how 👉Black people have so much power and influence, especially in #TechCommunities, especially in social media, that people want to...

#black #racism #schwarzen #sozialenmedien #bluesky #mastodon #twitter #socialmedia #facebook #fediverse #skeets #diversitat #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

(6/n)

... “a lot of #Black people weren’t on there,”👈 and “there 👉was a lot of #racism that was going unchecked👈.” She asked to only be referred to by her first name 👉out of fear of harassment. She made it her mission to invite as many Black users as possible,👈 she said...

#schwarzen #sozialenmedien #black #bluesky #mastodon #twitter #socialmedia #facebook #fediverse #skeets #diversitat #jackdorsey #nazi #BSKY

(5/n)

...zu haben scheint, ist die Integration der #Schwarzen Community👈, welche wie in der Musik auch in den #SozialenMedien eine überproportional wichtige Rolle spielen:

"Aveta, a #Black software engineer who has invited over 500 #Black users to #Bluesky, 👉wasn’t a fan of #Mastodon because...

#twitter #bluesky #socialmedia #facebook #fediverse #mastodon #skeets   #diversitat #JackDorsey  #nazi #BSKY