I went to Bluesky because some of my personal favorite non-tech Twitter personalties ended up there. I'm a fan of @Popehat, who has a lot of informed political legal commentary. There are also a number of fiction writers and artists I like there. Surprisingly full of the people I happen to want to subscribe to. And surprisingly large gardening and astronomy communities.

Less my thing, but if your interests include trans rights, furry porn, or romance authors, Bluesky's definitely the place for you.

Signing up went really well. Mastodon absolutely fumbled the Twitter disaster because it was difficult for non-technical people to figure out what to do. Bluesky just looks like Twitter unless you're actively looking for options to be on another server.

Mastodon has fixed their onboarding process (a bit late) to be much more user friendly.

> if your interests include trans rights, furry porn, or romance authors, Bluesky's definitely the place for you.

Same could be said for Mastodon, plus retrocomputing and a lot of tech people who don’t want to be on Musk’s Nazi bar anymore. Compiler folks and John Mashey hang out on Mastodon.

If you follow US politics, you do want to be on BS, though. Mastodon is better for international politics and stuff like Eurovision.

Where are the tech people using it? I've mostly only found bsky employees and politics doomscrollers...

i haven't seen tech people, save for the bsky devs. in my time building a client for it (as a side project), i observed a healthy population of journalists, furries, and people who have bad political takes.

when openai launched gpt-4o and google had its i/o, the two events didn't make a dent in the bsky trends. what did make a big dent was eurovision. that says a lot about the population of tech people.

It’s where a significant chunk of the writing community has ended up. I think people who feel the need to reach out to the public may still be more active on Twitter, but it’s definitely the online writers’ bar now.

Some of the photographers I follow now have accounts at Bluesky.

at least among the people I follow, there aren't really very many tech people. It's pretty much friendly enough for anyone to use imo.

I mean, sure if you want to run a PDS or labeller, that's basically technical folks only at this point, but I've seen non-technical people put together feeds, choose which labellers they want to pay attention to, etc.

but for just skeeting and BMing, it's user friendly