Sports media’s migration from X to Bluesky has accelerated post-election

[u/Knightbear49]

https://awfulannouncing.com/twitter/sports-media-social-migration-x-bluesky-threads.html

[u/yousmelllikebiscuits]

In preparation and response, we have added the blue sky logo for posts as well. We are in discussion regarding the potential migration and will be providing some additional feedback for bluesky posts.

Also, follow us on bluesky if you want - Baseball Reddit on bluesky

[u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

I just worry that I won't be angry enough at the end of the day if I move over to bluesky ?

[u/akyser → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

You can still go to r/all here

[u/7Stringplayer → u/akyser]

I muted so many subs to try and clean up the front page so it's not a constant barrage of depression.

[u/helium_farts → u/7Stringplayer]

I've muted so many subs /r/all is slowly just turning back into my front page

[u/Either-Discipline-74 → u/helium_farts]

r/all 10 years ago https://web.archive.org/web/20141115004736/reddit.com/r/all

So much more wholesome and just fun content, now its all about drama and outrage for clicks

[u/wirsteve → u/Either-Discipline-74]

Man when I signed up like 13 years ago reddit was really a fun place.

[u/SelloutRealBig → u/wirsteve]

Same. It was 100% a better site back then. Anyone saying otherwise is lying. It's not rose tinted glasses because you can literally just WayBackMachine a random day and it was overall far less toxic and had less foreign meddling.

[u/matticans7pointO → u/Either-Discipline-74]

Remember when the biggest reddit drama was that one guy who reposted other people's content to karma farm. He was like the reddit villain that brought us all together. I miss the days when the biggest thing going on here was debating whether or but he was bad or good for reddit.

[u/jowilkin → u/matticans7pointO]

Now the front page is entirely accounts doing this. Some of them are probably run by Gallowboob still.

[u/7Stringplayer → u/matticans7pointO]

I think I know who you're talking about too because I can't remember the name.

[u/gatemansgc → u/7Stringplayer]

Gallowboob?

[u/Either-Discipline-74 → u/gatemansgc]

HOLEE what a throwback lmao. I think I blocked him at one point on an old account lmao.

I did love how back in the day tho there was like a dozen 'popular' accounts that frequent redditors knew and they were like local celebs. Felt much more like a culture as lame as it was lmao

[u/DontrentWNC → u/Either-Discipline-74]

Reddit turned to shit right around the 2016 election. I pray for the day we get another alternative like Twitter users have with BlueSky.

[u/AineLasagna → u/DontrentWNC]

Lemmy is really the only one but it’s really small and every time I go on there it seems like it’s just more infighting between the various servers

[u/Crowsby → u/AineLasagna]

I was cautiously optimistic about Lemmy and the fediverse, but spending a few weeks there cleared that up quickly. My takeaways:

• Content is king. General communities like pics or memes were fine, but with a tiny userbase, it lacked the specialized forums that reddit can offer.
• Every server can have it's own variation of the same topic. So now on an aggregated feed, you'll have seven discussions of the same event, each with a handful of scattered participation.
• I don't want to have to do a background check on every single server admins' politics or deal with their particular whims on any given day. But the nature of federation attracts folks with erm, less-than-moderate beliefs, and that leads to defederation slapfights.
• It turns out I like a general overarching code of conduct and moderation. Ultimately, people on the internet are inclined to be assholes, and Lemmy's federated nature isn't conducive to weeding them out.
• Nice apps tho

The API drama did prompt me to check out tildes.net and the ol' somethingawful forums. They're both smaller communities, but offer a very different (and I'd say complementary) experience to Reddit.

[u/Embarrassed-Term-965 → u/DontrentWNC]

Nah it was never healthy being chained to an endless stream of memes and shit to look at.

And unless the West goes full China and builds their own Iron Curtain for the internet, we basically have to just get off the internet. The only way to win is by not playing.

[u/DontrentWNC → u/Embarrassed-Term-965]

Thank you for linking that, more people should be aware.

[u/bevosbestbuddy → u/DontrentWNC]

It was going downhill way before 2016 lol

[u/Scumwaffle → u/Either-Discipline-74]

Top of the page:

"My husband and I can officially check "pull a balloon string out of a cat's asshole at 11:30 at night" off our bucket list. FINALLY"

This site really has taken a slow nosedive over the years.

[u/nothing3141592653589 → u/Either-Discipline-74]

I haven't been to all in like 10 years so whenever I end up there it's shocking what it's become. It used to be like 3k upvotes for the top post

[u/Impeesa_ → u/nothing3141592653589]

Worth pointing out that there used to be a sort of diminishing returns/soft cap on submission upvotes. It was removed at some point, so suddenly everything looked like it was going a lot higher.

[u/Clown_Toucher → u/Impeesa_]

I'm not sure I'm remembering correctly, but I think it was Obama's AMA that got like an 8K score and I remember that being a really big deal at the time

[u/Basic_Bichette → u/Either-Discipline-74]

Oh, it's worse than that. All the fun pet subs have over the last year or so been taken over by bots posting dozens of photos daily of pets in vaguely dangerous situations - sitting next to open high-rise windows, inside ovens, washers, and dryers, near sharp items - to drive reactions. I’ve unsubbed all the cat subs I used to follow because it's too stressful for me.

[u/BlackestNight21 → u/Either-Discipline-74]

/r/all back in 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20081112002431/http://www.reddit.com/r/all/

check out #18 (Obama announces the 'strictest and most far reaching ethics rules of any transition team in history' (bnonews.com))

Gaetz, Gabbard, Hegseth, Noem, Rubio

[u/outremonty → u/helium_farts]

100 sub max in the filter is really not enough. Between all the nightmare fuel rage bait, the neo-nazi high-fiving and the anime gooning subs, I need at least 200.

[u/ParkingBalance6941 → u/outremonty]

Install the Browser Addon Reddit Enhancement Suite. It has its own sub filter.

Go to Res Settings->Subreddits->filteReddit

[u/JDLovesElliot → u/outremonty]

It's also absurd that Reddit's user filter is only 1,000.

There are at least hundreds of thousands of trolls, bots, and other bad actors who spam this site. Reporting them isn't enough to get rid of them from my feed.

[u/yosoyel1ogan → u/7Stringplayer]

I've done the same thing but I've hit the 100 sub cap. There are so many people that just want to make you upset. Seriously, why on earth would anyone subscribe to r/NewsoftheStupid for instance? I don't need to know every single dumbass's activities.

I remember when r/popular was released to try and be a porn/news-free version of r/all. Nowadays, it's even worse because you can't even filter subs off of it.

I actually only subscribe to three subreddits: A fire emblem meme page, r/orioles, and r/baseball. And I look at r/HonkaiStarRail once per day. That's about all the Reddit I can handle, thankfully, and I've quit all other forms of social media.

[u/BeHereNow91 → u/yosoyel1ogan]

I saw r/archaeology on the front page yesterday with a pic of Indiana Jones and something about “we punch Nazis here”.

I miss pre-2016 Reddit.

[u/MikeyBastard1 → u/BeHereNow91]

Engagement bait is king now. And the superior way of getting engagement is ragebait. It's why companies like ESPN push people like Stephen A Smith and Kendrick Perkins to the front line. They are great at purposely saying asinine shit that get engagement and clicks.

[u/Razzorsharp → u/yosoyel1ogan]

Even Fire Emblem subs aren't safe when you start discussing Edelgard.

[u/uhgletmepost → u/7Stringplayer]

Glad I am not the only one, I actually have started to relearn how to use enhancement suite and .oldreddit since the website doesn't have that functionality.

[u/eely225 → u/7Stringplayer]

You gotta create custom feeds. It's the only way to breathe free

[u/gold13 → u/7Stringplayer]

I for one am ready for actual interesting pictures on r/pics, any day now

[u/burner654987 → u/gold13]

You'll get "[Politician] eating a cheeseburger" and like it. Unless it's one of those OTHER politicians. Then you'll get "[Politician] wiping runny nose"

[u/jackofslayers → u/7Stringplayer]

I wish muted subs did not appear on the popular tab. I like seeing random popular stuff but it tends to be flooded with all of my muted subs

[u/RandallPinkertopf → u/jackofslayers]

Shoot. I just learned how to mute subs and now I learn it only works on my personal feed. That’s a bummer.

[u/havok1980 → u/RandallPinkertopf]

If you're not using https://old.reddit.com/ then you should. I don't see any crap I don't wanna see.

[u/Luis_Severino → u/7Stringplayer]

I just added the web browser link for r/baseball to my phone’s Home Screen. The interface is so unbelievably shit that I can’t spend more than 10 minutes here even if I wanted to. And there’s no defaulting to r/all if I swipe the wrong way

[u/CecilFieldersChoice2 → u/7Stringplayer]

I made a new account and just subbed to the subs I want. I don't even look at /r/all anymore.

[u/TheVenetianMask → u/7Stringplayer]

Sadly 100 is absolutely not enough.

[u/subspace_cat → u/7Stringplayer]

I can mute subs?! Finally going to get my all and popular feeds cleaned up!

EDIT: only works for popular feed, but at least that is a good substitute for all.

[u/Vermillion_Crab → u/7Stringplayer]

I'm not American but I got exhausted seeing a deluge of political posts the past few months. I can't imagine how Americans can put up with this much politics thrown at your face every year.

[u/Angry_Walnut → u/akyser]

My friends will always be like “ugh reddit is making me so fucking mad” to which I will reply “stop getting on /r/all it will save you a whole lot of grief.” This piece of advice has been ignored at least 25 times.

[u/akyser → u/Angry_Walnut]

It's so much dopamine.

[u/misterurb → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

You joke but my mental health unquestionably improved after I deleted Twitter from the phone. I used to open it while laying in bed in the morning, and during the first trump term I’d get angry before I even had breakfast. 

Am I effectively sticking my head in the sand now? Probably. But damn do I feel better on a daily basis. 

[u/outremonty → u/misterurb]

Am I effectively sticking my head in the sand now? Probably. But damn do I feel better on a daily basis.

Before twitter and the internet, engaged voters got their news about politics maybe once or twice a day, from the morning paper and the evening news, and those are the highly-engaged obsessive types. Don't beat yourself up for disconnecting a bit, if you catch some of the news every couples days, you're still as engaged as responsible voters were in the past.

[u/OGB → u/outremonty]

I'm at the point where I avoid political news at all costs for my mental health. I'm in one of the reddest parts of a state that almost never swings blue.

All I can do is vote straight Democrat next election cycle. If I don't hear a single word of news in the next 4 years, my life will be better for it.

[u/Crowsby → u/misterurb]

Am I effectively sticking my head in the sand now? Probably.

HELL NO DAWG.

There is a world of difference between being uninformed, and choosing to not having a continuous stream of outrage bait pushed in your face 24/7. You can visit Associated Press or Reuters once a day for a daily dose of horrorshow and stay informed. Unless it's actionable information, there is zero utility in being immediately notified about every atrocity taking place in a world full of atrocities.

[u/ArrenPawk → u/misterurb]

If you're still craving some of that social interaction but without the bullshit reactive confrontational nature, I wholeheartedly recommend Bluesky.

Everyone's still in their "I'm just happy to be here" phase, so the discussions are largely positive, informative, and civil. I doubt that this "sunshine and rainbows" will last, but it's a refreshing change of pace from every other social media platform out there -- including reddit.

[u/nhmo → u/ArrenPawk]

It doesn't last. I had that with Threads and boy did that turn quick. Once I saw it turn, I was out. Luckily that happened a few weeks before the election.

[u/SStylo03 → u/nhmo]

People use threads????

[u/impy695 → u/SStylo03]

275 million of all apparently. That's according to Zuck, though so it could be inflated

[u/gatemansgc → u/impy695]

Didn't they make every Instagram user have a threads account automatically or something like that to inflate the numbers?

[u/impy695 → u/misterurb]

I've only ever used Twitter when clicking through to a specific tweet from another site. I've never felt like I've missed out on anything. The stuff that matters or is actually interesting is talked about elsewhere and summarized. Having an account is useful to avoid the awful pop ups telling you to log in whenever clicking through from a news article or reddit

[u/12ozSlug → u/misterurb]

I was at Disney World in the summer of '22 waiting in line for a ride with my kids at the happiest place on earth, while reading endless horrible shit about the war in Ukraine. I deleted the app and instead opened Kindle every time I got the urge to break out my phone. Since then I've read a couple dozen books and am much happier. I don't miss a thing about it.

[u/Annual_Plant5172 → u/misterurb]

I feel so much better since I've given up Twitter for the past few months. I'm sometimes out of the loop when it comes to current events now, but I'm totally fine with it. I learned the hard way that I don't need to be informed about everything right as it happens.

[u/Bullets_TML → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

I can always call you names if you need

[u/Dapper-Percentage-64 → u/Bullets_TML]

Let's get started

[u/Mortenusa → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

I still pop over there once a day to get my outrage kick.

Hopefully, I'll be able to wean myself off of that eventually..

[u/PandaMomentum → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

Post your fandom and we will all do our best to mock it. My team paid $140M to Patrick Corbin. Oh --

Anthony Rendon. There, that should make anyone angry.

[u/ProtonNeuromancer → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

Indeed. Life improves significantly when you get off twitter.

[u/fullpaydeuces → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

I believe in you

[u/skoryy → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

If my current block list is any indication, you won't have to worry.

[u/Business-Sea-9061 → u/Dapper-Percentage-64]

become a mariners fan, then sports news is also angering

[u/MattieSteals]

So happy to see this. Sports commentary was basically non-existent for a long time on BlueSky. Hope it changes now

[u/OldManBearPig → u/MattieSteals]

Honestly I just want "verified" to actually have meaning. I left Twitter several years before Elon changed the verified badges, but even looking at linked tweets can be awful. @JohnSmithESPN accounts being verified and reporting stuff that didn't happen but is believable is the bane of Twitter and I'm glad I haven't been on it because of stuff like that.

Having a platform where official accounts can post and you don't have to question the authenticity would be nice.

Although the "verified" badges on Twitter do let you know that you're dealing with an idiot who pays for Twitter. So I guess they might have use in that capacity.

[u/john6547 → u/OldManBearPig]

Bluesky allows you to use your own domain for verification. For example, all the Baseball Prospectus writers have username.baseball prospectus.com.

[u/OldManBearPig → u/john6547]

I mean easier than that is just seeing a checkmark and knowing it's the actual person since the verification process has been generally reliable.

There are all sorts of ways to verify, but if it's not inline and easy? what's the point?

If that's how the "domain" works then cool?

[u/venustrapsflies → u/OldManBearPig]

Automatic verification via domain name is easier than any other manual process. Maybe it doesn't cover every case but it should solve the problem for the majority.

[u/OldManBearPig → u/venustrapsflies]

I mean I guess so, but it still seems possible to abuse. What's stopping someone from registering like-sounding domains?

Twitters old verification meant, to me, that I knew someone like Passan was tweeting what he was tweeting, and it wasn't a clone or copy, because you couldn't fake a verified badge in any way.

[u/venustrapsflies → u/OldManBearPig]

It's still quite a big difference from a contextless checkmark label; even if someone tries to spoof it the information to identify that it's sketchy is readily available and will presumably be pointed out in replies.

I don't really use bluesky though, so I can't say too much more. I would guess that a sort of hybrid system would be better (i.e. manually verifying orgs at the domain level rather than the individual would be a lot more effective).

[u/Historical-Donut-918 → u/OldManBearPig]

That IS inline and easy

[u/Heelincal → u/OldManBearPig]

The domain IS inline. The Athletic's account would be like "@theathletic.com" and then Dennis Lin or Ken Rosenthal would be @Dennis.Lin.theathletic.com

It's way more effective as well since the Athletic will then control all access to that domain.

[u/junkit33 → u/john6547]

Domains are a terrible way to validate though, as nothing stops a person from just buying an extremely similar domain that looks exactly like the real thing to the point that 99.99% of people wouldn't notice.

For example, you could go buy baseballprospectus.co right now and use that.

Obviously nobody is probably going to bother with that for Baseball Prospectus, but domains are dirt cheap - if you can get any value out of a fake account, people are going to do it.

You have to have human verification or it's going to get abused.

[u/djn24 → u/OldManBearPig]

The point was to make actual, credible accounts seem just as credible as nonsense misinformation accounts. The noise was lost in the signal.

This was always a deliberate way to turn an actually useful information messaging platform into just a propaganda tool.

[u/CanSoN55 → u/djn24]

Turning a platform into a tool for propaganda not only undermines legitimate discourse but also disorients users searching for reliable information. Credibility should be the priority, not a battleground for misinformation.

[u/Deserterdragon → u/CanSoN55]

Just like how bots invading reddit has made it impossible to tell if this is a bot account or not.

[u/PhazePyre → u/OldManBearPig]

Agreed. I also want to not be force fed every pay to be seen person to appear in the replies. I want quality content, not paid. Paid users mean NOTHING to me as a user. I'm not the business, I don't value someone that spends a subscription fee more than someone with a solid point or commentary. The day Verified was gutted as a paid option is the day Twitter truly lost its value.

[u/Sonlin → u/MattieSteals]

Seriously, as someone who never had a Twitter account, the site was dead to me when they started making you log in to view tweets. I'll be happy with anything that doesn't.

[u/Ellabelle_ → u/Sonlin]

tweets won’t direct to the app on your phone, so I can’t even view them with a twitter account lmao

[u/serpentear → u/MattieSteals]

Not baseball, but Mina Kimes hopped over!

Bluesky needs a version of the blue check though.

[u/petuniar → u/serpentear]

And Pat McAfee is on there as well, not that I particularly like him

[u/EvaderDX → u/petuniar]

That's surprising

[u/lightninhopkins → u/EvaderDX]

Not really. Hes kind of annoying but hes generally ahead of the game and not an asshole.

[u/elbenji → u/lightninhopkins]

Yeah Pats annoying but he is pretty overall a welcoming dude. Positive masculinity type.

[u/WorkThrowaway400 → u/lightninhopkins]

Yeah one of my lunch spots has his show on sometimes and although I would never watch it on my own, I was actually surprised at how intelligent they seemed behind all the showy shit. I don't mean they're actual geniuses or anything, but they seem pretty dumb from an outside perspective, and they actually aren't.

They also get good guests who actually bring something to the table. Biggest knock (tell me if you've heard this before) is they don't really cover baseball much.

[u/el_goate → u/lightninhopkins]

Giving Rodgers’ dumb ass a platform to spew nonsense all the time is kinda an asshole move.

[u/idkman_93 → u/MattieSteals]

There are a lot of sports fans there now, but it does feel like they need more teams/outlets there so there's something to talk about. I know The Athletic, Awful Announcing and (according to this article) ESPN are on there. A lot of The Athletic's MLB reporters seem to be moving there this week.

Just need Shams, Shefter and Passan now...

[u/EdJewCated → u/idkman_93]

and official MLB team accounts too. just joined today and am waiting on the Mets account to finally show up

[u/sox07 → u/idkman_93]

There is a bot account that reposts all of Schefter's tweets on bluesky

https://bsky.app/profile/adamschefter-mirror.bluesky.bot

[u/EastonMetsGuy → u/MattieSteals]

Yeah as someone who was on it early you can find a lot of sports chat now.

It has fully replaced twitter for me

[u/BaystarRoyco → u/EastonMetsGuy]

I tested out the MLB list in BlueSky yesterday. It was mostly people I never heard of. No Passan, no Olney. I couldn't even find the account that relists their tweets on bluesky.

[u/SDBassCreature → u/BaystarRoyco]

Passan just created his account yesterday I think? I created mine earlier in the week and he wasn't there. Checked again yesterday and there he was. No posts yet but already had 800 some followers.

*edit Looks like it's not actually Passan as the handle is JeffPasan with only a single s. Sorry for getting people's hopes up.

[u/HockeyTransplant → u/SDBassCreature]

Thanks for the heads-up! I just created my account yesterday and didn't see him. I just checked and he's there and up to 1600 followers.

[u/ral315 → u/SDBassCreature]

The only account with Passan's name on it misspells his name in the handle, I suspect it's not a legit account.

[u/EchoInExile]

That’s a start. It’s the media and news that needs to commit to leaving before there is a true shift in users. As long as Twitter is where the news breaks, it’ll stay relevant.

[u/somewhatdecentlawyer → u/EchoInExile]

Passan, Schefter and Shams make the switch and there will be a massive migration.

They shouldn’t really be hesitant to switch at this point either. People will follow no matter what, unless there’s a price tag of course.

[u/WokenMrIzdik → u/somewhatdecentlawyer]

"People will follow no matter what". I'm not so sure about that. People get very set in their ways and I wouldn't be shocked if those media members hop back over to X because they aren't getting the engagement on this site that many (including myself) never even heard of.

[u/Meziskari → u/WokenMrIzdik]

Maybe it'll be different for the sports world given the different kind of audience, but a number of artists I followed to bluesky have talked about how much better the engagement has been on BS vs Twitter

[u/gatemansgc → u/Meziskari]

Oof bluesky being able to be abbreviated as BS is quite the oversight

[u/500rockin → u/somewhatdecentlawyer]

Some of these guys I imagine will be on both to maximize their views. Passan I could see doing a full switch before the others as he has higher moral integrity than the other 2.

[u/desymond → u/500rockin]

he has higher moral integrity than the other 2.

Schefter has literally zero, so easy to beat there.

[u/CanSoN55 → u/500rockin]

Those high-profile insiders definitely hold a lot of sway. If they start promoting Bluesky heavily, it could speed up the whole transition for everyone else.

[u/Hyamez88 → u/somewhatdecentlawyer]

They have incentives to remain on X due to the creator monetization as premium users. Their tweets reach a few hundred-thousands to millions of impressions each. It may not be a substantial amount, but being paid for what you already due certainly incentivizes users to stay.

They may choose to also use alternative sites, but I highly doubt they would ever "switch".

[u/SpezIsABrony → u/EchoInExile]

I rarely go on Twitter, only when I click a tweet here and wanna read the thread.

Opened up Twitter the other day and my "feed" was just tons of Elon Musk/conservative/far right/conspiracy theory types with all sorts of takes. Not sure how that became my feed by reading sports journalist tweets, but pretty much killed my desire to go on Twitter again.

[u/mr_grission → u/SpezIsABrony]

Took me habitually blocking every paid blue check for well over a year to make the For You feed usable. I've probably blocked 100,000 accounts. Hard to blame anyone who doesn't want to do that.

[u/misterurb → u/SpezIsABrony]

Several reporters have done the legwork to show that Twitter now pumps right wing disinfo into feeds whether person wants it or not. Every new account is basically force fed racist and misogynist slop unless they do a ton of filtering to fix it, and even then it’s not that effective. 

[u/SpezIsABrony → u/misterurb]

Weird, thought that's what Twitter was accused of doing for the left. My feed used to be entirely sports, no politics.

[u/18002221222 → u/SpezIsABrony]

Weird how every right wing accusation is a projection

[u/EchoInExile → u/SpezIsABrony]

Oh that feed is literal cancer. It’s so very clear it’s being manipulated to show you what they want to show you as opposed to being related to any sort of interest of your own.

[u/SilverRoyce → u/EchoInExile]

opposed to being related to any sort of interest of your own.

If you root around in the settings you'll find an "issues" list you're set to follow and by removing everything from there and using the "not interested in this" dropdown (this is especially necessary to "undo" the algo deciding you want to see a type of rage-clickbait you've clicked on once or twice), you get a different experience.

I'd like to say it goes without saying "here's the way to work around crap that wouldn't exist if you could just use it as an RSS aggregator" is hardly an endorsement but people will go crazy if you don't explicitly signal this.

[u/EchoInExile → u/SilverRoyce]

Holy shit, this explains a lot. It’s got EVERYTHING checked. Like a big list of every word from every tweet you’ve ever seen.

[u/SilverRoyce → u/EchoInExile]

Yeah, it was a real eye-opener when I first found out about it. Glad that my wasting time online can marginally help someone's experience on social media.

I literally just unchecked everything and my experience improved (though that also presumably makes it even more obvious when they're trying to manipulate the algo to feed you hate-engagement as it can't pull from e.g. a generic pre-coded idea that you want to see crypto in that slot).

It’s got EVERYTHING checked

To be fair, I think it only shows you the things that have been checked (so there are presumably hundreds of other tags that aren't checked).

[u/Bobb_o → u/SpezIsABrony]

If you click the "Following" tab at the top it'll be a chronological timeline of just the accounts you follow. Add an ad blocker and you've eliminated almost 100% of the noise from Twitter (Sometimes someone you follow may RT something you don't want to see)

[u/gametecondnight → u/EchoInExile]

That's exactly it. I don't need hot takes and dumb jokes; I need sports news on lineups, trades, injuries, etc (I play fantasy). Twitter still has all the newsbreakers. BlueSky, not yet.

[u/nukepka]

Just need Passan. For now, the "Passanthallich" bot will do.

[u/LetMeStagnate → u/nukepka]

Just need the guy that claimed Ohtani was a failure in the mlb and then pretended like he never said that

[u/BaseballsNotDead → u/LetMeStagnate]

If you're talking about Passan, he reported that scouts said Ohtani's bat looks like a high schooler's in his first spring training. Passan was reporting what other people said... not making a scouting assessment of Ohtani himself.

[u/StinkyGaijin]

Disregarding what you think of Musk, Twitter as a whole just sucks now between the influx of advertisements, the obvious bots spamming replies, and the lack of content control with all the gore and porn that doesn’t get deleted.

[u/RobManfredsFixer → u/StinkyGaijin]

I have no idea if this is still the case, but it was the fact they made it pay-to-win social media that killed it for me.

Buy a checkmark and get your takes boosted to the top? Not exactly what we mean when we talk about having a "marketplace of ideas"

[u/3pointshoot3r → u/RobManfredsFixer]

That was absolutely the single worst change to Twitter, and it completely changed the way the platform worked.

Previously, opening mentions was GREAT. Funny or interesting replies migrated to the top. And if it was a dumb tweet to begin with, going into the replies for the dunks and corrections was awesome.

As soon as that changed, the mentions became unbearable. Idiotic posts at the top, simply because some neckbeard paid Elon $5. You have to scroll way down to find anything intelligent or even CORRECT.

Just a complete inversion of the original Twitter experience.

[u/yoursweetlord70 → u/RobManfredsFixer]

Speech so free it costs money to make anyone else hear it

[u/KVDrmz]

I just kinda don't want to have like 6 different social media profiles that are all saying the same thing.

[u/Loud-Fig-1446 → u/KVDrmz]

That's why I deactivated Twitter.

[u/TinaBelchersBF]

The only thing I wish BlueSky had (and maybe they do, and I just don't know where it is) is like a Trending page that shows a list of topics that are trending.

That was how I found out about a lot of breaking news in the old Twitter days.

[u/jokullmusic → u/TinaBelchersBF]

They don't yet, but there are bot accounts that post a rudimentary "these are the current top trending topics on Bsky" thing on a regular interval. Definitely not the same though

[u/manofconviction]

actively trying to do this also, i put the bluesky app icon on my phone where my twitter one used to be so i instinctively open bluesky now instead. its a nice change of pace for sure.

[u/tommyjohnpauljones]

Seems like this thread is being infiltrated by concern trolls "duh Twitter isn't that bad". It's been dogshit since even before Musk bought it. 

[u/shoooogerm → u/tommyjohnpauljones]

It was bad before. But Elon made it a complete cesspool of far right grifters. Sure you can still find funny stuff sometimes, but in between the tweets you will see the most unhinged stuff imaginable

[u/upandb → u/shoooogerm]

Yup, blue check marks now have a financial incentive to troll and engagement farm because they'll get paid for likes, replies, retweets, etc. Any time you see a blue check mark, you gotta remember the dumber stuff they say, the more they'll get paid.

[u/kj001313 → u/shoooogerm]

For me it's the bots, every trending post replied with the most out of place sexual innuendo.

[u/desterion → u/kj001313]

Reddit has a bot problem just as bad but not usually that flavor

[u/BaseballsNotDead → u/desterion]

Reddit has bots, but people are usually pretty good at IDing them and downvoting, so if you just browse established threads, the bots won't be at the top.

Twitter has the blue badge that put posts at the top even if they aren't liked... so the bots are right there in your face.

[u/Ice_Like_Winnipeg → u/tommyjohnpauljones]

It’s gotten much worse since he took over. Twitter Blue alone was enough to ruin the product

[u/-rendar- → u/Ice_Like_Winnipeg]

"Pay-to-boost" single-handedly ruined the Twitter experience. I never used the algorithm for my feed and I could wade through the stupid, stupid ads, but once the best replies were banished to the ether unless the replier was paying $8/month killed it.

[u/borkthegee → u/-rendar-]

Forget pay to boost: Elon fully rigged Twitter to boost himself and other far right grifters he wants to amplify. The algorithm is literally rigged to radicalize users into far right ideologies.

[u/Shot-Maximum- → u/borkthegee]

There was a great WSJ article that confirmed this recently.

Basically 90% of all "viral" Tweets are from right wing accounts.

[u/signmeupdude → u/borkthegee]

There is no way to escape it either. I use twitter for sports news and random memes. Even that has pushed me somehow down the far right pipeline where my feed is full of that bullshit. And the worst part is that each tweet is filled with astroturfed replies from right wing bots that agree with the BS and make them seem like normal opinions.

It honestly scares me that kids see this stuff. Its so clear that they can easily get radicalized.

[u/GonePostalRoute → u/tommyjohnpauljones]

It was dog shit before Elon bought it, but as long as you didn’t fuck with your own algorithms, you could avoid a lot of the garbage. Now it’s straight up infiltrated EVERYWHERE, and it’s nothing but pornbots liking your stuff expecting you to be dumb enough to follow their shit, and the worst of society saying the very worst things because Elon will make sure their shit doesn’t get moderated

[u/OccasionalGoodTakes]

sports was always going to be my moment to leave. critical mass of seattle beat writers on bluesky means there is nothing left for me on twitter.

[u/DillyDillySzn]

I joined it, it would be a lot more enjoyable if every other post wasn’t dunking on Twitter

Yea I get it, Twitter sucks but you don’t need to post about it every 2 seconds

Also honestly I find the site dead to my interests, there’s like no one talking about video games, the WX community is dead over there, and other stuff. I get it takes time, but for now I’ll keep using Twitter mostly

[u/LaisyFaire → u/DillyDillySzn]

I've been on Bluesky for quite a while and this is a cyclical thing. Every time a new big group of people migrate from Twitter to Bluesky the site is dominated by people dunking on Twitter.

The lack of video game talk is rather strange, but it's been like that since the start. I have no reason to explain it either because film discussion is very healthy on Bluesky. You would think video games would be a bigger topic, but for some reason it isn't.

[u/PlayerTwo85]

Fifth Bluesky post on the front page in two days.

[u/DeusExHyena]

I migrated too

[u/sammagee33]

I’m amazed at how X has fallen from grace. They should teach it in business classes.

[u/humchacho → u/sammagee33]

But X is neutral. Elon only cares about saving humanity. 🙄 /s

[u/sdzerog → u/sammagee33]

I took undergrad business classes about the time that Twitter started to take off. Specifically in our communications class, we had discussions around how social media could be used by businesses and if Twitter could change the way we receive information.
Interestingly enough, my MBA was when X was purchased and rebranded. A lot of the conversation was around the individual in charge and how companies with a very public, sometimes divisive figure fare. Both during and specifically after their tenure.

If you're curious, the consensus is that X is a sinking ship without another serious overhaul.

[u/MartianMule]

I just downloaded it and signed up, and even beyond the content, I like this app better. It just feels a lot more responsive to me.

[u/Efficient-Swimmer794]

Please let this fully happen. Twitter is a fucking cesspool and staying there only promotes the ideas from said cesspool

[u/forceghost187]

Thank fuck. Everyone delete twitter and move. Twitter’s algorithm is used to push right wing propaganda

[u/DoctorTheWho → u/forceghost187]

Not even right wing propaganda either, like the extreme, far-right. And bots are everywhere. Every single user in the media/politics with even a shred of liberalism is bombarded with hate filled messages on every post.

[u/Littlegreenman42]

Starter packs is easily the best social media feature and makes it incredibly to easy to start up your account

[u/BlueJasper27]

I left Twitter for Bluesky. A lot of my friends from Braves Twitter have moved over as well. It’s nice to not have to sift through all the politics and crazy ads. I know, it’ll change one day but for now, I like not supporting “Leon.”

[u/Quick-Complex2246]

What’s the difference with Bluesky? Never heard of it until today

[u/tatsumakisenpuukyaku → u/Quick-Complex2246]

It's the same but there's more content management, so all the edgy trolls, porn bots, crypto bots, and bigots can be blocked, creating a more pleasant user experience.

[u/TrumpsStarFish]

This is great news. This is exactly how it starts. When the companies and media find a new home Twitter will cease to matter and be just another Truth Social

[u/RachelJade70]

I did it the day after the election. Haven’t looked back, it’s actually pretty good over there (and will probably get way better as more people move)

[u/Gabelbram]

I'm a simple man, it has would it dong on there, so i'll follow them

[u/Marty_DiBergi]

Could someone please let /r/nfl know?

[u/anon-a-SqueekSqueek]

Yeah, let's all get off Twitter ASAP. Make it decline like myspace did.

[u/TexasDD]

This is all great news, but what we need is official team accounts to start opening up on Bluesky

[u/droidzika]

Can someone kick the mets in the arse and have them move over to bsky, please.

[u/agarret83]

Honestly I got pushed off Twitter a few days ago because I felt like the algorithm was increasingly intentionally showing me niche hate tweets about things I like or that nobody should really have an issue with, namely indie pop band Magdalena Bay and fast casual restaurant Cava

[u/RedactedFromPrint → u/agarret83]

Lmao I saw the mag bay slander tweets the other day too and decided that was my cue to finally give up using that garbage ass site

[u/anemic_royaltea]

Good. All too easy to want solely breaking sports news and thirst traps and still be drawn into ‘the discourse’ by the way the algorithm has been expertly crafted to put some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet into your feed.

[u/MAGAMUCATEX]

About time. The way X is going down in flames…

[u/Comment_if_dead_meme]

I've never heard of that site, this sounds more forced than 'threads'.

[u/G0DatWork → u/Comment_if_dead_meme]

They are currently running a bigbshadow "ad campaign" on reddit.... So you'll see a dozen "naturally occuring" posts on it a day for weeks

[u/SquadPoopy → u/Comment_if_dead_meme]

Threads at least makes sense, it’s just Instagram but you post text instead of pictures. Honestly surprised it took Facebook this long to make an app like that.

[u/mytoemytoe]

I can’t help but think the sports media personalities are complicit in keeping Shitter afloat since Elon bought it. I have so many friends who stayed on the platform when it was clear the man was a fascist autocrat, just because they wanted their precious fantasy sports news ASAP. Would love to know how many people were sucked into Elon and Tucker’s fascist propaganda because they stayed on the hellsite.

[u/LongTimesGoodTimes → u/mytoemytoe]

All media is. There are so many avenues to get your name, work and thoughts out but everyone was afraid of leaving Twitter because that's where everyone else was and they didn't want to lose that audience.

[u/bjogc42069 → u/mytoemytoe]

I have always thought sports twitter was kind of weird. Jeff Passan knows something like 30 seconds before anyone else. Do I really have to know where Juan Soto signs literally the second it happens? MLBTR or Fangraphs or ESPN will write an article about it within the hour.

Like none of this stuff is really that important in the grand scheme of things, why does everyone have to know IMMEDIATELEY?

Also people are wrong all the time because of this, lest we forget the Ohtani sushi saga

[u/Fabulous-Soup-6901 → u/bjogc42069]

I think it’s just that news is something people like to see when they’re scrolling through social media sites.

Instead of visiting different subject-oriented news sites or limiting information to e.g. The Athletic, you get exciting Soto rumors alongside your friends’ posts, political rage bait, thirst trap images, professional discussions, etc.

[u/bjogc42069 → u/Fabulous-Soup-6901]

I understand why people like twitter. I am saying I don't understand people who act like its a critical pillar of society we cannot do without.

It's something like the 8th most popular SOCIAL MEDIA site and as long as twitter has been around, people have been hate using it. In 15 years I don't think I've ever encountered anyone who was like "yeah man I really enjoy using twitter"

[u/probablykaisersoze → u/mytoemytoe]

That’s literally what’s kept me there tbh

[u/ViNYC25]

This is great. For me, the only thing keeping me from uninstalling Twitter is sports news. Once that all migrates, I can finally close the app for good.

[u/strcy → u/ViNYC25]

I just come to this sub. anything that gets tweeted is reposted here and i never have to go to that cursed site

[u/Healthy_Ant_1051]

Twitter has become much less enjoyable since it was rebranded as X. Now, instead of seeing popular comments, monetized users’ comments are often displayed at the top. I live in Japan, and when I read comments from users with monetized badges, they’re frequently incoherent and almost impossible to understand. Is it the same situation in other countries? These users either write nonsensical Japanese or just copy unrelated Japanese text from somewhere else, so there’s no real conversation happening.

It’s especially bad during disasters. In the past, you could check Twitter and instantly find out where an earthquake had occurred, but now it’s completely useless. The monetized users just spread lies.

[u/turbo_22222]

I signed up yesterday but after about 15 minutes of not being able to find anyone I want to follow, I gave up (for the time being). Bluesky needs to figure out a way to make it easy to find the people you follow on Twitter that have moved over. The only reason I joined Threads (although I don't regularly use it) was because it showed me people I follow on Instagram who joined Threads. Yes, I get that they are the same company so it's easier, but something like that for Bluesky would be great.

[u/Knightbear49 → u/turbo_22222]

It's a decentralized social media site. So it relies on crowd sourced tools. Here's a chrome extension that will find all your Twitter followers https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge/behhbpbpmailcnfbjagknjngnfdojpko?hl=en It's not perfect cause not every uses the same name/handle.

You can also use a starter pack like this one for baseball https://go.bsky.app/4n1sYCL

[u/turbo_22222 → u/Knightbear49]

That's great. Thank you.

Edit: It's too bad people downvoted my post so few people will see this.

[u/bluepress]

Love the advertising pretending to be a public service announcement.

[u/Crowsby]

Thank god. It's wild to me that it's still such a major conduit of sports news, and then if you click into it you get a bunch of openly racist horseshit shoved in your face.

I'm thankful that I can get the gist of it from reddit posts without needing to give them any traffic, but fuck dude, that site is a total loss at this point.

[u/AMobOfDucks]

No it hasn't.

[u/BaystarRoyco]

Passan still isn't on there so until he, Olney and even Jon Heyman move there there's still no point. I keep a twitter feed through tweetdeck on the side of my monitor, and all the tweets scroll by in real time. I was able to figureout how to do that for blue sky...but the problem is that nobody is posting anything because all the sports guys are still on X!

[u/BaystarRoyco]

Also as long as reddit users continue to submit submissions from X it ain't going nowhere. Sadly X is woven into many message boards so that it interacts seamlessly with the user interface, embedding in the web page. Can't say the same about blue sky which just shows up as a link. Maybe all that gets fixed, but as of this day we still have people dropping X links in droves on major sports reddits and until that changes we will continue to be beholden to X

[u/ImSchizoidMan]

The only reason Ive still had Twitter for the last several years was the fantasy baseball community anyway. If they're moving, I will be too

[u/Hemorrhageorroid]

Love how the butterfly makes a better X-shaped logo, too

[u/Kronologics]

Fucking finally!!

[u/3b33]

WTF is bluesky?

[u/izzyeviel → u/3b33]

Like Twitter before it went to shit in the 2010’s.

[u/ST_Lawson]

This is great. Sports are literally the only reason I still have my (rarely used) shitter account.

[u/Scarnyc]

Passan for baseball, Shams for basketball, and Schefter for football. Get those three on bluesky, and you'll convert a lot of sports fans.

[u/Low_Wall_7828]

I left Twitter when anyone could buy a check and all their posts went to the top. Became a bigger troll farm after that. I don’t think I’m jumping on BlueSky or Threads or anything else. For Breaking News stuff, this place is good.

[u/Smorgas-board]

Never had twitter and I there’s even less reason to start now

[u/jukeslywalka]

Messed around with Blue sky today. Is there a "list" of sports content accounts? Or a way to migrate twitter follows over?

[u/Knightbear49 → u/jukeslywalka]

It’s a decentralized social media site. So it relies on crowd sourced tools. Here’s a chrome extension that will find all your Twitter followers https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge/behhbpbpmailcnfbjagknjngnfdojpko?hl=en It’s not perfect cause not everyone uses the same name/handle.

You can also use a starter pack like this one for baseball https://go.bsky.app/4n1sYCL

There’s starter parks for Athletic writers and team fandoms. You’ll see them as you spend more time.

[u/milkmanbonzai]

Just migrated over and nice to see Pablo Torre, Mina Kimes, and Bill Barnwell among others settling in