lol

Definitely an upgrade over 1.2

People say X is toxic, but Bluesky really is on another level

This in no way diminishes the toxicity of X

I'd say overall bluesky is better but boy howdy is it differently stupid sometimes.

Bluesky is pretty decent and has features that I like over X, but much of its user base are from the Great Xodus (pardon the pun): people who frame their switch to Bluesky as some kind of boycott of X, ie, a bunch of moralists. They didn't leave X because it's a hellscape of trashing and toxicity, no, they left because the politics changed. And so Bluesky is now saturated with people who are very opinionated, very loud about it, and very willing to engage in trashing.

Yes, bluesky is absolutely saturated with people who are loud and opinionated and willing to engage in trashing.

Entirely different than twitter, in that respect.

Nah, Twitter is still absolutely rotten with toxicity. The Great Xodus happened due to the rapid chuddification of Twitter under its new management: it was over politics, not toxicity. As such they brought the toxicity with them like a plague.

Bluesky has this nice feature where you can mute lists, so someone made a MAGA list (https://bsky.app/profile/skywatch.blue/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s), and yet I was still seeing MAGA stuff on my feed because all the Twitter refugees were screenshotting Twitter nonsense and laundering it into my feed. Utterly ridiculous.

I find myself agreeing with this a lot, as well as the secondhand amplification many do. I get some want to brigade but often times that very action is what leads to all sorts of awful content coming upon social media feeds in general, because they simply have to show others how awful this thing they saw was.

Its not exclusive to bluesky by any margin, but it does become especially concerning as a double standard to filter lists.

Yes, I guess my sarcasm pen is broken. I agree with you.

Exile usually connotes being forced out from a place.

The distinction is important because no one asked them to leave.

I originally had "self exiles" but thought the Xile pun was funnier :P

"Xodus"!

Stealing that

To riff of an old political joke: X is for the evil party, bluesky is for the stupid party.

Just pointing out this is from February 2025, so has been a thing for a while

And github today lol https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/bmpybhnrky3x

I wonder how much of that is to do with patents? I imagine Apple and Google own all sorts of patents around tech to do with the camera/keyboard etc

I had this too, brought some credits (around $50USD) around Christmas time and only used a small amount, went to look the other day and it showed me a balance of zero, also couldn't figure out what happened to them

Small enough amount of money that I didn't bother chasing it up, but surprising to see other people saying the same thing, maybe I will

Semantic git commits have been a thing for years - https://www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/

I've always liked them and tried to convince others to use them

AI models seem to like them as well

this is my methadone until Claude comes back

I just use variables...right? And loops??

All kidding aside, there's a part of me who wouldn't even be mad if AI just disappeared, I miss the pre-AI world

I miss the pre-www world (but I was just a kid then, and being a kid was pretty great).

If we could go back to about 1994 tho when all I had was a mostly dumb cell phone, that'd be great. I do miss that world.

we all do

Just add if-statements until it works

Nostalgia lol

Maybe it's by design, but Show HN posts seem to just get completely buried, whereas posting stuff directly is more successful

I've spoke to other people who've had the same experience, maybe just a coincidence but could be why people avoid it?