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Title sez it all.  For those of you that have tried any of the Twitter alternatives, do any of them have a decent number of hockey folks that are creating content? 

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5 minutes ago, Weave said:

Title sez it all.  For those of you that have tried any of the Twitter alternatives, do any of them have a decent number of hockey folks that are creating content? 

Bluesky does. I've had both for awhile and Bluesky has added more in the past 6 months I'd say. 

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18 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Bluesky does. I've had both for awhile and Bluesky has added more in the past 6 months I'd say. 

Who do you follow on Bluesky for hockey content? I see the Sabres have an account but no info. I haven't seen any of the 'insiders' there yet.

For me mostly the same with Threads.  Threads has a bit more content, but none of the big sources, and Bluesky seems to be growing quicker.

(on a side-note, Bluesky needs a Windows Desktop app ASAP.)

Twitter seems to be where most of the hockey news come from as of right now.

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46 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Who do you follow on Bluesky for hockey content? I see the Sabres have an account but no info. I haven't seen any of the 'insiders' there yet.

For me mostly the same with Threads.  Threads has a bit more content, but none of the big sources, and Bluesky seems to be growing quicker.

(on a side-note, Bluesky needs a Windows Desktop app ASAP.)

Twitter seems to be where most of the hockey news come from as of right now.

Sabremetrix. Fairburn. Yerdon. Buscaglia. Lance. Yost. Puckpedia 

Russo. Staple. Engel. Wheeler

All the elite prospects scouts are there now

 

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I've been on Mastodon for a while.  It's kind of like Windows Phone (when that was a thing):  Decent enough, but doesn't have the mainline apps/content providers.

Just joined Bluesky and it seems more active.  If anyone wants to follow me there my display name is Paul H Doohickie.

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Thank you... gave up Twit when Musk took over looked for an alternative but Mastadon was meh... so kinda gave up and depended on you guys.  Guess Ill check it out.

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1 hour ago, North Buffalo said:

Thank you... gave up Twit when Musk took over looked for an alternative but Mastadon was meh... so kinda gave up and depended on you guys.  Guess Ill check it out.

Yeah, Bluesky is kind of what I hoped Mastodon would be.  Mastodon is okay but it's not a news source; not enough official/relevant accounts there.

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22 minutes ago, Doohicksie said:

Yeah, Bluesky is kind of what I hoped Mastodon would be.  Mastodon is okay but it's not a news source; not enough official/relevant accounts there.

I just hope one of the new socials takes off. First I was thinking Threads, now I'm going to try Bluesky.

I'm still on Twitter and I don't really care who runs it or what their views are, I'm just tired of getting hammered with so many ads (I'll take a few, but sometimes it seems like I have almost as many ads as posts to read) and for people seeking out my old posts just so they can attack me/yell at me because I only agreed with 90% of what they said 6 months ago.

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Some WGR guys just moved over there...they don't post a ton, but someone else to follow on BlueSky:

@zachjonessports.bsky.social

@nategearysports.bsky.social

 

And on a non-sports related them:  Maps.  I love maps. If I'm bored, I might just fire up google maps and just look around for minutes, or longer. I've gone to museums full of maps on vacation for fun.  If anyone is strange like me with Maps:  terriblemaps.bsky.social  Its someone who has 1/2 of his posts comedic posts about maps, 1/2 of his posts informative posts about maps, and the final 1/2 of his posts are a 1/2 / 1/2 post about maps that is both comedic and informative.

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Lots of info here.  Thanks all.

I suppose I just need to download the app and look, but the other thing that keeps me holding onto twitter is government agency accounts.  For example, national weather service, space observatories, NY thruway authority and NY canal system, utility companies, things like that. Any services along those lines moved at all?

I hate duplication and don’t want multiple versions of Twitter functionality.  Just trying to get a read on where other services are at.

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7 minutes ago, Weave said:

Lots of info here.  Thanks all.

I suppose I just need to download the app and look, but the other thing that keeps me holding onto twitter is government agency accounts.  For example, national weather service, space observatories, NY thruway authority and NY canal system, utility companies, things like that. Any services along those lines moved at all?

I hate duplication and don’t want multiple versions of Twitter functionality.  Just trying to get a read on where other services are at.

My guess is those things might be coming, but it will be a little bit of time. They go to where the users are. The old 'chicken-vs-egg' thing.  They won't go there until there are enough users, but many users won't go there until those people are there to follow.

I can't remember the exact agency, but there was a local agency (something like the MTA in NY city  or the "T" in Boston, or maybe some early weather warning service for a region...I forgot which one) that actually quit Twitter a month or so ago because of some new rules/regulations making it harder to for them to give out information. Again, sorry for being so vague, maybe someone else remembers the story...but my though it again, those things might be on Blue Sky, but its going to take some time.

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17 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

My guess is those things might be coming, but it will be a little bit of time. They go to where the users are. The old 'chicken-vs-egg' thing.  They won't go there until there are enough users, but many users won't go there until those people are there to follow.

I can't remember the exact agency, but there was a local agency (something like the MTA in NY city  or the "T" in Boston, or maybe some early weather warning service for a region...I forgot which one) that actually quit Twitter a month or so ago because of some new rules/regulations making it harder to for them to give out information. Again, sorry for being so vague, maybe someone else remembers the story...but my though it again, those things might be on Blue Sky, but its going to take some time.

You have a new follower on bsky.  😉 

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1 minute ago, Doohicksie said:

You have a new follower on bsky.  😉 

Thanks, You won't be getting much out of me, I'm more of a 'reader' and a 'follower' than a poster. 

I just want a platform like Twitter or Blue Sky (maybe not the best name, I have this overwhelming urge to abbreviate it every time I type about it as "BS")....I want a platform available that doesn't have tons of ads but has enough info on it to make it worth following.

Almost everyone I want to follow still uses Twitter.  But the platform just gets so much less user friendly every month that goes by.

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24 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

I have this overwhelming urge to abbreviate it every time I type about it as "BS")

The actual url address is bsky

Does anyone from Sabrespace call themselves Bowie Clapton on bsky?  I just got followed by someone with that name, no idea who it is.

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35 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

Blue Sky (maybe not the best name, I have this overwhelming urge to abbreviate it every time I type about it as "BS")

I keep reading it like it’s a hockey nickname each time I see it here. 

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FWIW BlueSky is having some issues today as they try to get a handle on the exponentially increasing user base. LOTS of big sports personalities showing up over the last 48 hours. Hopefully they'll have the hamster wheel turning freely again later today.

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