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If You Loved Twitter, Come Fly the Friendly BlueSky
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I miss the way it[Twitter] was so badly. I can literally cry from how happy I was there before. — Bev Potter
Social media should occasionally delight, inform, inspire, entertain, and connect. Not every post of course, but a pay out often enough to keep feeding pennies into the slot machine. What you don’t want is to end up wasted, bankrupt, and needing a shower to get rid of the grime.
Is Bluesky worth the gamble? Maybe you poured years of your life into a dead end relationship but your X is still jerking you around. Can you trust again?
I can’t promise Bluesky will never break your heart. Relationships always come with risk. But I can tell you, Bluesky feels fun right now, a bright spark in a dim world and I’m enjoying the trip.
With any potential relationship you want to look for both red and green flags. I‘ve been on Bluesky for almost a year now so let me walk you through some of the ways I’ve learned to enjoy and create a connection worth my time.
Block early, block often
When I joined Bluesky it had about half a million users. When X turned its block feature into a bandaid more likely to infect a gushing wound than staunch…