I completely forgot about it, and certainly wasn’t going to sign up for it just to read a post.
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Requires more effort than Twitter/X as it’s people rather than bots and companies. I moved there a while ago and am getting far more engagement on BS (despite having over 2000 followers on Twitter/X). It’s also growing exponentially given recent things in the other place.
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I don’t know what its implied reputation is, but I know why I don’t use it. They have a really weird handle naming system that makes things far less punchy. So instead of just being [at]pigfender, I’m [at]pigfender.bsky.social which is just odd. Other than that, and it’s just a clone of early Twitter, so adds nothing at all to your social media experience – which means the only reason to be on it is if you’ve decided to leave Twitter in disgust (for whatever reason) but love Twitter and can’t actually quit.
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I’m @shellbryson.com - you can use your own domains as handles, which you can’t do elsewhere.
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We’re way off topic now, but I disagree. BS gives you detailed control over who sees your posts, and the posts you see. For example, if a big account quotes your message, you can remove your quote (detach quote), as well as many ways to filter/block, curate accounts you like as so on. Due to this level of control, there are relatively few bots (as they don’t last long before getting blocked) or companies (again… if an account isn’t saying anything of interest, it sinks fast - not a place where ads would work).
Apologies for being reductive, but that is just your “for whatever reason”. That is something I personally don’t care about.
But then, I don’t use Twitter anymore either.
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I just meant there seemed to be an implication regarding why the stuff on NaNo and AI were found on BS as opposed to somewhere else.
At the risk of triggerring a moderator response for the off-topicness, I’ll just sit back and happily read responses.
Putting things back on topic 
, I found this: Writing Month on BlueSky.
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It is ageist to ascribe weighted importance to the first post in a thread simply because it is the oldest. 
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The one thing that has always interested me about NaNoWriMo is that while their model makes the event incredibly scalable, it also means that they themselves are totally surplus to requirement.
I think the old nano org would have been cool with this; an “anything that encourages writing” approach. I wonder what the current org leadership makes of it.
No. They’re simply not preventing it. How could they?
Well, McFlurry cooks.
Admitting that they don’t have the resources to prevent it or simply don’t care is one thing.
But dumping some “isms” on critical users…
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Exactly. Saying nothing is fine. Saying those who oppose AI are classist and ableist is another thing entirely.
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They are also directly quoting a post in the L&L blog, so I’d be very interested their take on this, being a NaNo sponsor too. It’s not a great look.
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I’m not seeing where they’re quoting our blog. Could you provide a link, please?
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Apparently I misspoke. This article was in the mix of discussion around the issue, but not quoted by the org that I can see
They are sponsored by a company that is pushing generative AI. I’d suggest this is encouraging it, no?
I’m not against AI being used as an AI tool/aid (dyslexic: I use a range of these tools in writing and work).
But I cannot and will not stand for is the language NaNo used: it is not ableist or privileged to push back against generative AI. Framing it as such is hugely problematic and damaging.
A small sample of writing community pushback.
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