8mo ago

Tabletop creators leave X for Bluesky in droves

www.polygon.com

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I mean, leaving now ... How very brave and probably not about the economics of remaining.
- I at least feel good leaving as soon as Musk bought Twitter.
  I thought for sure they’d get epically hacked.
  Anyway, enough people do that and you keep flogging the customers and this is the outcome.
  
  Same. It grinds my gears a little at all the excuses people give for continuing to feed that beast while talking about how terrible it is for society.
  Sorry but having principles does involve some sacrifice.
- We take our Ws where we can get em.
  Twitter being economically unviable is still pretty good news.
- It's probably not about the economics of remaining. Twitter's still got way more users than Bluesky.
  But the optics of Bluesky are way better than the optics of Twitter, so you get to feel like you're sacrificing something (the larger user base) for your principles, while still having a huge (and engaged) audience.
  They get to have their cake and eat it too. Until the crypto bros have their way with the place.
  
  Which means it is about the economics. Which is what I said.
  You just "um achserkly"ed me to make the same point but longer.
Obligatory Mastodon mention.
Better than going with another for profit, VC funded, corpo.
- Mastodon is great if your interests are Linux and FOSS.
  
  It's great for tabletop games if you join the tabletop gaming instance.
  Or if you flood it with tabletop gaming fans.
  
  Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave.
  All jokes aside you're 100% right
  
  I'm having a great time finding musicians as well
  
  Or anything else
- Especially when you have a group that would be ideal for a tabletop gaming server where you could participate locally instead of having to find each other all the time - and it’d be a lot easier to find and vet other community members going forward.
- https://fed.brid.gy/docs
  Is the middle ground push. Maybe we can convince people to at least do both?
- They are looking for the same as tw/ig/fb/etc most of the fediverse doesn't work that way that's why most of the ones that go to mastodon then return to the walled gardens.
At least all the mentally weak and emotionally mature are leaving X
- The people are just going to what it looks like the image they have of twitter at the beginning not realizing that is going to be a new twitter as soon as most of them have gone to the new twitter.

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