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Why did you feel the need to bin it after another country's election?.... that sounds a bit fragile and flimsy to me.
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[Technology] Has anybody come off of Twitter / X? How easy did you find it?
- Thread starter ROSM
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I'm using both Xwitter and Bluesky in parallel now.
Honestly, just need 1 specific account of the Xwitter accounts I follow to move to Bluesky and then I can boot X over the horizon for good.
It'll mean
ing goodbye to the Official BHAFC feed but que sera sera.
Honestly, just need 1 specific account of the Xwitter accounts I follow to move to Bluesky and then I can boot X over the horizon for good.
It'll mean
ing goodbye to the Official BHAFC feed but que sera sera.
Lush
Mods' Pet
Same. Not giving that tosser Musk another second of my time. Threads is really picking up. Official BHAFC are posting there more and more.
portslade seagull
Well-known member
Signed up but have only used it to read twitter posts on NSC
Musk has nothing to do with Facebook. That’s Jeff Bezos who I don’t think is a massive fan of Trump.
FB is Zuckerberg.
Bezos is Amazon.
that’s the one.
BadFish
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- Oct 19, 2003
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Edgy!!
Right Brain Ronnie
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Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I'm currently stalking Rachel Mackley, and this would be much more difficult without multiple Twitter accounts, so I certainly won't be coming off any time soon.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Thread title make me laugh coming off social media, visions of people queuing up at the chemist for the equivalent of social media methadone every morning
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edited post - obviously a brain fart - I think having discussed Musk and X on the US election thread for months on end most people who know my contributions on NSC probable realised I was talking about X.
Jeff Bezos on the other hand, used to be the CEO of Amazon until 2021 and has nothing to do with Fb - now he isn’t even a major shareholder of Amazon.
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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Just signed up for Bluesky
Apparently plenty of others doing so as well, but guess they would say that.
Currently it's a bit quiet, but I reckon it will pick up. Needs some BHA content
Apparently plenty of others doing so as well, but guess they would say that.
Currently it's a bit quiet, but I reckon it will pick up. Needs some BHA content
The key to Blue Sky is setting up your feeds with the hash key at the top right corner. There is a bhafc feed available which is a start and will get better.
If X merges with Truth Social there will be a stampede to leave X.
It finally feels like the shift from twitter to blue sky is happening. This post from secret barrister sums up the difference in the two sites.
bsky.app
Much of the general news journos I follow have moved across but not so many of the football ones. Hopefully they follow so I can just leave twitter. I rarely post on twitter these days as in reality no one cares what I have to say so I am very much a follower.
Hopefully Bhafc start moving things over.
The Secret Barrister (@barristersecret.bsky.social)
A quick social experiment. The same tweet, posted at the same time on here and on Twitter, commenting on @joannahs.bsky.social’s brilliant piece on the exodus of criminal barristers. Bluesky replies on the left. Twitter on the right. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Much of the general news journos I follow have moved across but not so many of the football ones. Hopefully they follow so I can just leave twitter. I rarely post on twitter these days as in reality no one cares what I have to say so I am very much a follower.
Hopefully Bhafc start moving things over.
Doug-ees-evil
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- Nov 18, 2011
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• Been on FB for a while.. hate it to be honest. Not posted (apart from Marketplace ads) for years.
• Twitter(X) user and fan for many years. Rarely/never post, but I have learnt so much about the good and bad of the world these past 10-15 years but naturally it's got worse and worse – with the decline hugely accelerated by Elmo the Evil and his army of enemy bots. I follow all sorts; great football accounts, politics, science/nature, activists, military (Av geek), photography, comedians, podcast people, writers/authors you name it. So much proper undercover journalism breaks on Twitter(X).. the traditional media are days/weeks behind (or never cover it at all).
The stuff I see on Ukraine now via Twitter(X) is soul destroying and IMHO should be shown on national TV news every night so that everyone really knows what evil is going down there – and what we are facing. Having said all that, I need to spend less time on there and welcome the move to Bluesky for my sanity. I think we will see this migration explode over the coming months. Come Jan 6th inauguration, would be lovely if X had 25% left of its original users, when/if it merges with Truth (WTF) social. Am starting to note down all my Twitter(X) followers details now for the move.
• Instagram. My family dragged me onto this after refusing for years. Actually quite enjoying it. I post nothing and curate exactly what I want to see. Absolutely fabulous accounts about marine conservation/marine footage, more football accounts, aviation and photography. Has also been really useful for following physios, fitness people since I've fooked my back. Learnt loads.. but of course the feed is now full of thousands of irritating Americans contorting into all sorts of impossible, ludricrous and probably downright dangerous positions
• LinkedIn.. a necessary evil... but God I loathe it.
• Twitter(X) user and fan for many years. Rarely/never post, but I have learnt so much about the good and bad of the world these past 10-15 years but naturally it's got worse and worse – with the decline hugely accelerated by Elmo the Evil and his army of enemy bots. I follow all sorts; great football accounts, politics, science/nature, activists, military (Av geek), photography, comedians, podcast people, writers/authors you name it. So much proper undercover journalism breaks on Twitter(X).. the traditional media are days/weeks behind (or never cover it at all).
The stuff I see on Ukraine now via Twitter(X) is soul destroying and IMHO should be shown on national TV news every night so that everyone really knows what evil is going down there – and what we are facing. Having said all that, I need to spend less time on there and welcome the move to Bluesky for my sanity. I think we will see this migration explode over the coming months. Come Jan 6th inauguration, would be lovely if X had 25% left of its original users, when/if it merges with Truth (WTF) social. Am starting to note down all my Twitter(X) followers details now for the move.
• Instagram. My family dragged me onto this after refusing for years. Actually quite enjoying it. I post nothing and curate exactly what I want to see. Absolutely fabulous accounts about marine conservation/marine footage, more football accounts, aviation and photography. Has also been really useful for following physios, fitness people since I've fooked my back. Learnt loads.. but of course the feed is now full of thousands of irritating Americans contorting into all sorts of impossible, ludricrous and probably downright dangerous positions
• LinkedIn.. a necessary evil... but God I loathe it.
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Change at Barnham
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I reluctantly use Twitter, but like many others I plan to bin it very soon.
I've read of both Blue Sky and Threads being possible replacements and that both are growing quickly.
Has anyone got any advice on which is the better one to join?
(I use it to follow updates for football and cricket, general news, sharing links to Flickr)
I've read of both Blue Sky and Threads being possible replacements and that both are growing quickly.
Has anyone got any advice on which is the better one to join?
(I use it to follow updates for football and cricket, general news, sharing links to Flickr)
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
I've just deleted Twitter from my phone. I'll investigate Threads/Bluesky but I'm in no rush.