Big blue sky

Bluesky is my main social media platform now.

I mean, they called me an “elder”! Not just in an, “Wow, you old” way. In a nice way!

Yes, Threads has picked up, and I still poke around Mastodon sometimes, but Bluesky has left me feeling... nice? As of right now, it probably has more of the online science crowd. The developers seem to be making decent decisions. And it’s not overrun with ads and company accounts. I’m sure those last will come, eventually, but not yet.

I will probably start to occasionally pull from Bluesky and write about it in the way as I have done before, but I don’t want to add another tag to my blog. I will be using “Twitter” as the tag for my social media posts here on the blog. Because from my current point of view, that tag is more about the microblogging format now than about the specific platform.

P.S.— Bluesky game now is to see who’s enrollment number is a prime. Mine isn’t, but 265,499 is 13 squared times 1,571. Pretty good.

Update, 21 November 2024: Several new articles are out reporting that Bluesky is doing very well at attracting academics to the platform.

Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky

Bluesky is the new destination for X/Twitter’s health and science community. Here’s why

Update, 22 November 2024: When both Nature and Science have an article on a topic in the same week, it’s officially a noteworthy trend. Honestly, that combination of news article is probably going to be the proverbial last spike to complete the railroad that will bring academic holdouts onto Bluesky.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky