@leavex @grob @weddige The #EuropeanUnion 🇪🇺 has provided a convenient tool listing which social networks #EU 🇪🇺 politicians are on: https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/social-media-channels_en

Also many EU 🇪🇺 members are still actively using #X (many politicians are worldwide).

Surprisingly there are more listed EU 🇪🇺 politicians using #Bluesky than #Threads & #Mastodon combined! The only listed EU 🇪🇺 account on the #Fediverse is @EU_Commission, which is very surprising as Mastodon was created in #Europe (specifically #Germany 🇩🇪).

Another day, another social platform embracing the #Atmosphere (it is currently in Beta).

It is called Gander Social, & it is hosted in #Canada 🇨🇦: https://gandersocial.ca/

Unlike #WSocial, Gander Social will use the standard Atmosphere protocol, which means they will be able to easily interact with #Bluesky users. They plan on launching sometime this year.

I am curious as to why they chose Atmosphere over the #Fediverse.

Discovered via @grrlscientist (on their #CounterSocial account).

@Casey @kevin Introduction Excited to be here 👋 I’m John Harrison — Silicon Valley cybersecurity → Amsterdam 🌷. I help secure companies + AI usage. Now using AI to power my new blog + SEO on Ghost. Come say hi + check it out: https://blog.jharrisonphoto.com/ I share fine art landscape photography from Yosemite, Kauai, the Northern California coast, and Amsterdam. #forkiverse #bluesky

If you just left Bluesky today to join or come back to Mastodon, welcome (back)!

We are glad you are here with us

#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse

A heartfelt welcome to everyone who's left Bluesky recently to join the Fediverse! Don't mind the endless discussions, use your content warnings abundantly and please write alt texts to your media. And most importantly: have fun!
We're glad to having you here!

#bluesky #exitbluesky #newhere #newtomastodon

@Em0nM4stodon THIS.

This, 117%

Message to ALL individuals STILL at #BlueSky or #xitter, #instagram, #facebook, etc.

It's on them, it's a conscious choice they should be held accountable for, later.

#TIL Bluesky has no profile indicator (or even third party labeler that I can find), for determining if an account is a bot.

#Bluesky

@_elena

Until it does not materialize inside the institutions, I don't think it's relevant.
This thing seems pretty much unknown, no real information about the organization, the company, the business model.

Just a name and some ugly video @ Davos.

They're hoping / begging EU politicians to *move* from X.
European Commission already has blog/video instances and they don't use them.

The W target is some #bluesky european users who both understand the need of decentralization and are enthusiast to give to someone a copy of their documents and migrate.

Full crowds

Hi #bluesky followers: just to let you know I'll soon be blocking it.

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*I've got rid of Twitter/X because it became a bad actor. As Twitter started Bluesky I never joined and ignored the #Fediverse #bridge.

The past weeks I received abusive comments & blocked individual brid.gy accounts after finding reporting doesn't work.

Reading up on it, it seems Bluesky moderation policies are not how I look at the world. Reading this article strengthened that feeling:
https://werd.io/on-ice-verification-and-presence-as-harm/

Hi #bluesky followers: just to let you know I'll soon be blocking it.

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*I've got rid of Twitter/X because it became a bad actor. As Twitter started Bluesky I never joined and ignored the #Fediverse #bridge.

The past weeks I received abusive comments & blocked individual brid.gy accounts after finding reporting doesn't work.

Reading up on it, it seems Bluesky moderation policies are not how I look at the world. Reading this article strengthened that feeling:
https://werd.io/on-ice-verification-and-presence-as-harm/

For all my enthusiasm about #Bluesky as a complement to the ActivityPub-based Fediverse, the truth is that the experience I've had trying to appeal to their ban of the well intentioned and harmless Agora Bot has me worried. They have ignored my appeal and messages so far, precisely like you'd expect from Support in any random corporation.

This coupled with the fact that someone can obviously ban an account globally for any reason or no reason is making me appreciate the #Fediverse even more.

So #threads is now adding ads. We still have no idea how #bluesky will eventually monetize, but it's a company running on VC that it will eventually have to provide a return for.

The typical response to fedi is that it's fine but I wish it had this or that, and especially that it needs more people or certain accounts. What doesn't get factored in is the most likely outcome for these services, especially if they win. This really matters when you're building on them.

Be future proof. #SocialWeb

#TIL Bluesky has no profile indicator (or even third party labeler that I can find), for determining if an account is a bot.

#Bluesky

@darnell @quillmatiq @ricci lol, it actually is just #Bluesky, see for yourself: https://stage.wsocial.eu

#WSocial

I hardly check #Mastodon anymore, as it seems to be dying out. I still check #X the most, and then it’s a tie between #Bluesky and #Threads, but I lean more in favour of Bluesky, where I find better discussions, versus Threads, where it’s more of a spillover of influencers from #Instagram.

#TIL Bluesky has no profile indicator (or even third party labeler that I can find), for determining if an account is a bot.

#Bluesky