Maybe the most surprising thing to me about Bluesky’s early success is the “fun” aspect. I’m not very fun online — my microblog posts are often work-related or serious — but it seems clear there was a post-Twitter void here that Bluesky is filling. Casey Newton writes on Platformer:

Bluesky should continue to cultivate the sense that it is weirder and funnier than Twitter. That means leaning into some of the eye-rolling terms that users are insisting on, including skeets.

@manton Heh, that's why I'm not on Tumblr. I have an account, but man, I am not the target audience there.

@manton Team Skeet (porn) ought to love that

@manton on an up and coming Oxide podcast with Erin Kissane and Tim Bray, Tim used the phrase “transgressive fun” which I think fits for what I see on BlueSky in the last 72hrs and what I don’t really miss about Twitter. There must be a Masto server where that kind of play is encouraged?

@kraft Right, same here. Not every social network is the same and they shouldn't try to be.

@manton bluesky feels somewhere between early Tumblr, and 4Chan when folks there were just pretending to be nazis until all the actual Nazis showed up

@manton likely one of the journalists that chided Mastodon for calling them “toots”.