Elite Dangerous/ Frontier on Bluesky?

[Devil's Refugee]

A decent community has moved across from Twitter/ X to Bluesky, but Frontier is silent.
An account exists @frontierdev.bsky.app but nobody knows if it's official or not (if it's official then FDev can self verify using the frontier.co.uk DNS as well as creating accounts for the games themselves the same way)

Do any community managers want to comment on whether there will be activity to support and inform the growing list of Cmdrs migrating across?

 

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

For the sake of ease of communications, Frontier would most likely stay on the widest reaching social media channels. In this case, that would be X.

In the unlikely circumstance that bluesky becomes the dominant social media platform (or at the very least, has any real, long term growth outside of beeing a "fad"), they might reassess their social media reach.

 

[xylaki]

For the sake of ease of communications, Frontier would most likely stay on the widest reaching social media channels. In this case, that would be X.

In the unlikely circumstance that bluesky becomes the dominant social media platform (or at the very least, has any real, long term growth outside of beeing a "fad"), they might reassess their social media reach.

the effort of adding it as a channel is minimal, and keeping updated even less to.

I left twitter/x/whatever-name-it-has-this-week when it started to slide and have no intention of going back. The requirement to have an account on it just to read posts just helped cement my refusal to rejoin.

 

[Markov Chaney]

Every time this comes up, someone comes up and says "well actually X has the widest reach." It doesn't. Instagram does, by a long way.

And X is shrinking at 10% a month.

 

[Bob McBobblehead]

FDev don't do politics, let them post where they want.

 

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

FDev don't do politics, let them post where they want.

Agree - respectfully, keep the politics out. Seems that many people who joined "bluesky" did so out of nonsensical political reasons.

 

[Shadowsnog]

But what about mastodon? Truth social? Rumble? How about veibo and bilibili? Teams? Could fdev have public teams? How about icq? They certainly need an icq!

 

[angusmadmac1]

It's not like they really do communication well on their own forums let alone social media . I would prefer them to do one well ( the forums , as I don't do anything else) . Rather than spread themselves out and do everything badly

 

[Vedmo]

So long as someone trickles down the relevant tidbits here when Frontier can’t be bothered I’ll appreciate the sacrifices of those who wade through the horrors of social media so I don’t have to.

 

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

But what about mastodon? Truth social? Rumble? How about veibo and bilibili? Teams? Could fdev have public teams? How about icq? They certainly need an icq!

You forgot the ever popular Parler and Myspace...

 

[Evoflash]

Agree - respectfully, keep the politics out. Seems that many people who joined "bluesky" did so out of nonsensical political reasons.

Nothing to do with politics in my own case, and I wouldn’t want to discuss politics in any case here.

Back on topic - would be lovely to see FDEV on Bluesky. Catching up with FDEV is the only reason I got back to X, it’s just a little quicker than visiting the forums.

 

[CMDR X]

If they are not on IRC then they are behind the times. The rest are for the limp and weak.

 

[Archvillain]

Agree - respectfully, keep the politics out. Seems that many people who joined "bluesky" did so out of nonsensical political reasons.

Politics might be in your media headlines about bluesky to make the news clickbaity but I think that gives a misleading impression of what is happening; people are mostly moving because the increase in bots, force-feed algorithms and enshittification of X has rendered X all but useless at being a useful Twitter. Bluesky is now the Twitter that works.

For example, if you are FDev and you want to post an announcement, your announcement won't work on X any more because if you have a lot of followers then the algorithm will only show it to some your followers (unless you pay to promote. Part of the purpose of gatekeeping visibility is to squeeze accounts into paying for what Twitter used to do as standard). Bluesky doesn't have an algorithm interfering with who sees your announcement; your feed is simply the chronological output of everyone you follow, and if you post then your post goes into the feed of everyone who is following you no-matter how many people follow you. So if FDev makes a post on Bluesky, it's in everyone's feed who wants to see it; the annoucement works.

 

[DemiserofD]

Honestly the best place to get fdev news is Facebook, believe it or not.

There are getting to be so many social media sites it's getting difficult to maintain proper reach.

 

[CMDR X]

So if FDev makes a post on Bluesky, it's in everyone's feed who wants to see it.

Except for everyone with a brain who refuses to use mass manipulation spy sites to get their information.

 

[Archvillain]

Except for everyone with a brain who refuses to use mass manipulation spy sites to get their information.

Bluesky isn't a mass manipulation spy site; a major reason it's replacing X is that there isn't an algorithm there. People are sick of mass-manipulation spy sites, which is precisely why they're moving to Bluesky. Your feed is purely a chronological list of what was publicly posted by the friends you chose to read.

 

[CMDR X]

Bluesky isn't a mass manipulation spy site; a major reason it's replacing X is that there isn't an algorithm there. People are sick of mass-manipulation spy sites, which is precisely why they're moving to Bluesky

You are being manipulated by moving from one pile of garbage to another without even realizing it..

 

[DrinkyBird]

Bluesky isn't a mass manipulation spy site

...yet.
Bluesky is still funded by venture capitalists and billionaires. And those venture capitalists will one day like a return on their investments. Ens-- uh, enpoopification is inevitable.

 

[Koma Pahu]

Politics might be in headlines about bluesky to make them clickbaity but I think that gives a misleading impression of what is happening; people are mostly moving because the increase in bots, force-feed algorithms and enshittification of X has rendered X all but useless at being a useful Twitter. Bluesky is now the Twitter that works.

Yeah. I left Twitter (and Facebook) a while ago, recently logged onto Bluesky because a load of the UK outdoor community have moved over because they’re finding it increasingly hard to use Twitter and engaging with actual people.

It feels a bit like Twitter did when I first joined. I’d still prefer something not designed to harvest data, but the alternatives are too niche and awkward to use.

 

[CMDR X]

.. but the alternatives are too niche and awkward to use.

That is why we are Elite..