Maybe the most surprising thing to me about Bluesky’s early success is the “fun” aspect. I’m not very fun online — my microblog posts are often work-related or serious — but it seems clear there was a post-Twitter void here that Bluesky is filling. Casey Newton writes on Platformer:
Bluesky should continue to cultivate the sense that it is weirder and funnier than Twitter. That means leaning into some of the eye-rolling terms that users are insisting on, including skeets.
Brandon Kraft ❤️🔥🧡 @manton Heh, that's why I'm not on Tumblr. I have an account, but man, I am not the target audience there.
Chad Kohalyk @manton on an up and coming Oxide podcast with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray, Tim used the phrase “transgressive fun” which I think fits for what I see on BlueSky in the last 72hrs and what I don’t really miss about Twitter. There must be a Masto server where that kind of play is encouraged?
Manton Reece @kraft Right, same here. Not every social network is the same and they shouldn’t try to be.
Ben Southwood. @kraft I know what you mean about Tumblr. I get migraines looking at it, it’s an assault on the senses from the moment the app is launched. Same with TikTok. Like yourself, I’m really not the target audience there. :-)
Jonas Maaløe @manton bluesky feels somewhere between early Tumblr, and 4Chan when folks there were just pretending to be nazis until all the actual Nazis showed up
Matthew Gregg likely one of the journalists that chided Mastodon for calling them “toots”.
