There are an infinite number of activities available to humans. Some people will find some of those activities enjoyable, and others will not. Is there value in joining a conversation about every activity to declare that you don't enjoy it personally?
A more constructive way of engaging might be to say how it might add value to your life if it were different in some way. Or you could warn others that it's harmful in ways they don't recognize. But just an unqualified, "I don't see the point of that," is not so helpful.
I took their post as an implicit request that commenters share their own experiences and how they receive value from these services. A bit like the nuance between the statements "This is pointless" vs "I don't see the point", where the latter has something of an implicit (yet).
>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
If people sharing your profession or hobbies are there, it's a way to hobnob or talk shop.
If you follow a bunch of reporter-type people, it's an alternative to the newspaper.
The actual site itself is mostly irrelevant, except for how easy or hard or makes it to do specific things.
I think one of the most useful cases of these sites is looking for conversations by people on a subject you are interested in but don't have a lot of real life connection to. For example I was really interested in China studies, so I found a list of Sinologists. Just reading what they write, what sources they recommend and "listening in" on it is a very good way to get exposed to all kinds of stuff you wouldn't even know to search for.
And there's lots of fields like this. Maybe you are interested in abstract expressionist art. What's the chances you know a lot of scholars unless you are one? These networks of really interesting people is I think where the value is in platforms like this.
That said I've done my usual due diligence and created an account very obviously under my IRL name now to hold down the username.
How comes ? What works, what doesn’t?
Yeah, if you didn't like old/pre-Musk Twitter, you're probably not going to like Bluesky; as far as the user is concerned it's a slightly refined version of the same thing.