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Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
(www.japantimes.co.jp)
More bluesy ads?
this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2024
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I've been on bluesky for a while (over a year). My (leftist) bubble was complaining about how boring it was for the longest time. Now I keep seeing people complaining about the influx of the "new" people joining. And here I am complaining about the complainers. Oh, to be a human on the internet.
what do you mean reasons other than us politics? do other kinds of reasons even exist?
Is this sarcasm?
Yes
I would love to see more Japanese moving over to Bluesky. I've effectively moved there, but can't really leave Twitter because I follow a lot of Japanese game devs there, and they don't have a strong reason to leave like Americans do.
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.
I saw a lot of bizarre shit from there through my federated Mastodon instance…
Let's just say that decentralized social media lets Japanese users post stuff other mainstream platforms won't.
So yeah, there's a lot of lolicon.
they are basically running a huge marketing campaign and a few halfwits on the fediverse are promoting a 'competing' platform.
nothing new under the sun.
Not surprising, they are trying to redirect people on bluesky not on the fediverse
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
Anecdotally, a lot moved to Insta or maintain both xitter and insta, but yeah, there's no real inertia to move and, outside of otaku circles, it seems that mastodon and the fediverse are basically unknown.
If you are wondering how bluesky is gaining so much traction that's how. ADS.
The main problem with BLUESKY is that it's the same regurgitated shit you find everywhere else. As a brand new user here's the first 10 things in my feed:
- Someone trying and failing to make a clever joke about the US Presidential election.
- A picture of black hole (which is great!)
- Semi-clever joke involving Professor X and Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Self Described "transfem lesbian" screaming about how much they love women. I mean yikes it's creepy AF.
- Boring US Political schlock about Lauren Boebert.
- Science / Astronomy content
- Video Game Post
- Self Described "#1 Gayest Lesbian" screaming about how much they love women. A copypasta of the other and still creepy AF.
- Another eye-roller "I am soooo depressed" meme.
- Boring US Political schlock defending Dr. Fauchi
So BLUESKY seems to be Twitter v2, primarily inhabited by the Pre-Elon Blue CheckMark types. Can I "fix" that with filtering? Probably but if I do then the feed will slow down so much that even checking in once per day will probably be too often.
It is exactly like that, which probably is the point. I never got on with Twitter even before the downfall. Now on Bluesky I'm being selective about what I like and follow. I'm gradually getting the kind of feed that I like to see and reply to. It takes quite a bit of work to influence the algorithms to your liking, but it offers a different social outlet than what Reddit-like sites can offer.
Well... Then... Just don't follow those people. My personal feed is 100% artists and scientists. That's the fun part of Bluesky; unlike Twatter, you're not forced to see all the cringe and ragebait.
And you don't have one asshole owner boosting visibility of his own posts and those of accounts he likes, and lowering visibility/shadowbanning those of people he doesn't. The "For You" feed tends to have not stuff you actually enjoy, but things that make you angry.
Please stop calling any homepage timeline a "For You", I don't want to get reminded of Ti##ok's existence.
That's what it's actually named in Twitter, so I'm not going to stop calling it that just because you're triggered by ... a completely different website.
What’s up with the multiple account in this thread that refer to BlueSky in all caps? Is this one person spamming from multiple accounts, or is that a thing?
The article body originally had it in all caps and once I noticed that I rewrote my comment that way. The article now shows it as "Bluesky" (no capital S) which is apparently the correct way. I dunno wtf is going on.
Yeah. Autocorrect on macOS keeps correcting to capital B and S. There is some sort of existing proper noun in its dictionary. Weird.
A quick Wikipedia disambiguation shows many Bluesky and Blue Sky, as well as these two candidates:
BlueSky Charter School, an online school for Minnesota citizens
BlueSky Software, a defunct video game company
I chose to believe it was the developer of Ninja Golf.
The main problem with bluesky is not posts that you don't like, it's whatever it's centralized or not.
I use 4 feeds:
- Following - full control over who I want to see
- Popular with friends - I use this to find new people since my mutuals are liking these posts
- Booksky - just everything reading related
- GameDev - speaks for itself
What I also like better than Twitter is whenever I reply to someone / quote tweet someone but block them after, other people won't be able to see the post anymore. I've noticed (at least for now) that helps a fair bit against pile-ons and rage baiters. Hope it stays that way.
Is this a fresh account that you went to the discover tab on?
Yep.
I recommend using bluesky like old twitter if you do use it. Follow people you're interested in otherwise you'll only see the most noisy types.
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