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X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky.

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BlueSky has seen massive gains on the back of X removing the block function.

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Go to your favorite content creators and ask them to create a profile on Bluesky. If you don't ask them, how are they supposed to know?
- I'm still on the fence about that...I think it'd make more sense for many to drop social media and opt for their own site with RSS feeds. A lot of social media for some is little more than a noisier RSS reader. Sometimes even literally with those with auto-playing videos. 😬
  
  Y'all are delulu/out of touch with normal people if you think they're gonna set up an RSS feed
  
  Nah, I get that normal people wouldn't, but I can dream. It's so much better than making Yet Another Account. Plus I know in set up we're talkin' people pulling the feed into a reader, but also for content creators making sites, loads of sitebuilding software already has RSS baked in, so it's not even that big an ask from them.
  If there's another more convenient no-sign-up method of keeping up with sites and stuff online, I'd love to know, 'cause I know many aren't about to use RSS.
  
  But how would the bots reply? That's what generates foot traffic, which is what brings ads, which is what is not enough to pay for the bills!
  Perfect business model, I had a VC review it and got high marks
  
  RSS is kinda a pain to set up though, not everyone wants to go through that.
  
  It can be, yeah. However, similar may be said of responsible social media setup.
  
  Once again, Lemmy vastly overestimates how much hassle people will put up with as far as technology is concerned.
  
  As a counterexample to this comment, if any of my creators switched over to an RSS feed I probably would stop getting updates from them because that's more hassle than when I can just go to one service and see everything in one place
  
  What you describe is basically the flipside of what happened to RSS folks, so I know what you mean. It sucks to stop getting updates the way you're used to, and more hassle making the transitions to whatever the different method is.
  It's basically the reason Twitter/X still has anyone there, except they have higher switching costs compared to an open following format.
  Honestly I take the compromise approach where I can, which is social media that still generates RSS, like Bluesky/Mastodon/etc. and use that to avoid making additional accounts.
  
  Yea I think that's a good compromise, I want creators to go on Bsky so its all in one place... (and I can escape the Political and ad succumbed hell that is X), RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn't it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does
  
  RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does
  If I understand ya right yeah, with BSky/Mastodon you pull the individual feeds for each account if you go that route (or maybe someone has an .opml file of several already grouped by topic to import). To me it's no worse than having to individually follow them on-platform, but I know I'm atypical in that respect
  Once ya have'em it's all in one feed in your reader so not too different than the following feed
  
  They should know they have options at least. Then they can make the decision for themselves.
- The problem with this at least in my circle of content creators is that they're all millennials or older(no offense to millennials I'm one myself) but because of that, they either have a I'm not putting more effort into make an additional social media platform or they take their handle on blue sky but then actively participate in the mainstream Services more, neglecting BSky. I've only ever really seen artists use that platform so the other forms of content creation hasn't followed

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