• Hellfire103
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      That’s Bluesky. It’s supposed to be a federated social media, but right now there’s only one kind of software for it and you can’t yet self-host it (although you can self-host your data). The open-source protocol, known as AT, was created by Twitter back in the day, and Jack Dorsey and a bunch of staff were able to rescue it when Musk took over.

      AT does not federate with ActivityPub, but users of either protocol can appear on the other using Bridgy; and some Friendica instances have basic support for AT. The equivalent of “fediverse” is “ATmosphere” (with the first two letters capitalised).

      Since it became public (as opposed to invite-only), Dorsey left the platform and went back to Nostr (yet another microblogging platform, this time built around blockchain :-P).

      It’s actually quite a nice place, in my opinion, with a vibe similar to a combination of Twitter and Tumblr.

      Sorry for going into this much detail. I just really like explaining things.

      EDIT: Turns out, the word being thrown around in place of “tweet” was also slang for cum. I have removed it, as this was probably originally a joke.

        • @[email protected]
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          I’m dying, we really out here trying to convince people to leave Twitter for a site that uses the word “reskeet”

          • Hellfire103
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            43 months ago

            I’ve just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn’t understand. I guess we just use “post” and “repost”.

          • @Licksrocks
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            What’s wrong with a little skeet shooting?

            • Hellfire103
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              23 months ago

              I’ve just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn’t understand. I guess we just use “post” and “repost”.

        • Hellfire103
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          Ah, fuck.

          Well, thanks for letting me know. Believe it or not, it’s not the first time this sort of thing has happened.

          • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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            I mean you’re not wrong. I’ve seen multiple articles stating that a blue sky version of tweet is a skeet. It’s why I’ve written the entire platform off.

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          I’ve just looked it up on UrbDict, and I think that might have been a joke that I just didn’t understand. I guess we just use “post” and “repost”.

    • @Telodzrum
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      It’s Bluesky, Jack Dorsey’s Twitter 2.0 platform. The problem is, it makes all of the same mistakes Twitter did. So, it’s just earlier in it it’s absolute-shit-show lifecycle — not actually different.