Week 368 was posted by Charanjit Chana on 2024-11-11.
As Twitter continues to burn to the ground, I look at Bluesky as the true successor to once great platform. The problem is, news and sports organisations haven't really adopted it well enough yet, if it all.
Twitter (X is a stupid name) continues to be a great place to follow sports, Bluesky is sorely lacking apart from a handful of fans. Twitter continues to have a community to enjoy events with, plus the addition of official accounts and reputable organisations sharing content.
From a tech, development and design point of view there are plenty of people to follow and converse with, it will just take time for us all to naturally, purposefully or subconsciously pick one over the other but I hope the momentum continues and we get there soon.
Verification is fantastic on Bluesky, no need for ticks (although verified accounts could easily be given an obvious marker), your online presence can be brought back to a domain that you own. You can even have subdomains so if you were a reporter for the BBC, you could have @yourname.bbc.co.uk as your handle. Almost as good as a public email address.
As these networks continue to build out ATProto and ActivityPub, you'll be able to find me @cchana if I get there early enough or @cchana.dev wherever that format is accepted.
When I remember, I'll cross post too. This past week, Bluesky announced that threading is now possible. One of the features I actually missed from Twitter.
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