1/22/2026 at 11:11:18 PM
by fuegoio
1/22/2026 at 11:24:24 PM
I tried using Bluesky and then ended up going back to X and blocking a lot of people. Both platforms seem to have some extremely political folks when I really just want to follow tech and business news.by cebert
1/22/2026 at 11:12:21 PM
What is a "tech personality" and why do I need to read their posts?by bigyabai
1/23/2026 at 12:29:24 PM
Good question. It’s a human who posts tech opinions on the internet. Recently I met one named bigyabai - ironically a rather small tech personality, but one nonetheless.by w0de0
1/22/2026 at 11:14:14 PM
They usually have interesting opinions or news about what they build, I find it quite useful for monitoring my ecosystem and learning new stuff.by fuegoio
1/22/2026 at 11:32:47 PM
Your ecosystem? What do you mean? I'm genuinly curious. :Oby lordkrandel
1/22/2026 at 11:46:16 PM
Why not follow them with xcancel or other pull through cache? If you’re not there for discourse, you just need to retrieve the published content.by toomuchtodo
1/22/2026 at 11:18:36 PM
Not issue for me because I'm not into AI/Typescript/web that much. In my case it was easy. Rust people are on Fediverse/Mastodon and Bsky. You don't even need to have account in those places. They are accessible from open internet.by timeon
1/24/2026 at 9:37:06 AM
I still havent completely managed to go to Bluesky - still need to be on X.by dhruv3006
1/22/2026 at 11:36:32 PM
I had high hopes for Bluesky and I made an account because a lot of people I wanted to follow from Twitter wound up there instead of the Fediverse.The only reason I'm even still on Twitter is so bots don't take my username (not that it matters, it isn't that valuable, but I've had it since 2009 and they can take it from my cold dead hands) and following a couple of Japanese accounts (mostly Aya Nishitani, creator of the Shin Megami Tensei series.)
I dropped all of my follows and comments and now I get the raw unfiltered feed and JFC is it a cesspool.
I'm only really active on Mastodon now, however.
by krapp
1/22/2026 at 11:50:17 PM
It's really, really easy to not use X. Just don't visit it, it's a dumpster fire and if you get too close the fumes will make you stupid.I don't care about "tech personalities", but most of the IT people whose ideas I'm interested in either have RSS feeds or Mastodon accounts, or both.
by heavyset_go
1/22/2026 at 11:15:05 PM
[flagged]by rekabis
1/22/2026 at 11:29:48 PM
If you're into game development there are several instances to recommend:gamemaking.social
indiepocalypse.social
mastodon.gamedev.place
peoplemaking.games
But following hashtags like #gamedev or #programming is more useful than following instances, generally.
by krapp