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The Great Twitter > Bluesky Pro Wrestling Migration (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For those unaware, ever since the US Presidential Election there has been a mass exodus of users from Twitter/X over towards Bluesky and this also includes several pro wrestlers, wrestling media and promotions beginning to use Bluesky as their official social media of choice.

For those who are on Bluesky, ImADifferentBird has put together a starter pack of Bluesky users who are part of this 'Wrestlesky' community, and there are several others as well.

There are currently several pro wrestling feeds on Bluesky, listed below:

Primary pro wrestling feed

Puroresu feed

Joshi feed

Wrestling art

To date, AEW and TNA have both joined (ROH too but they aren't active yet) and we've been seeing a big influx of pro wrestlers coming in and reactivating old accounts or creating brand new ones.

Should there be any wrestlers or anyone else you want to point out specifically, drop the info in the comments below (and/or recommend them to the maintainers of any starter packs if they aren't listed).

Hopefully we'll be able to do away with posting twitter links entirely soon!

Edit: EVE, NJPW, and Maple Leaf Pro have all also joined!

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We live in the dumbest timeline. We live in the timeline where there needs to be 2 twitters, because the original twitter sold to a guy who changed the core concept of who it was for. Then a clone twitter popped up, and didn't have much popularity.

Now the clone twitter is getting their old users back, because the original twitter decided to be a facist hangout.

Can someone wake me up? This all feels like a very bad dream, where nothing makes sense. It feels very much like the reason I don't understand life, is that it's not supposed to make sense. Eventually I'll wake up, it'll be 1999 again. I'll be 15. None of the stuff about Vince McMahon pooping on womens heads will be true. Chris Beniot won't be a murderer. 9/11 won't happen. Al Gore will win the election and tackle climate change for the next 8 years.

Wake me up.....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

i dont want to get all conspiracy theory over here but once david bowie, prince, and alan rickman died, everything went to shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Let me know when the dust settles and Bluesky actually has content, and I'll check it out again.

I'm not joining another thing just for everyone to not bother their asses using it, I've already got a Mastodon account from that original week everyone claimed they were leaving twitter after the sale - everyone just created profiles and left again on day two.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Honestly, you're good to go imo.

BS hit 10mil users a month ago, I joined last nov and was number 1.908 something million. Been watching the 'new users first post live feed' nonstop since the day before the US election and its been no joke non-stop new users every second of the day since then with no stopping.

I've noticed lots of old unused accounts getting used again (like some of the aforementioned wrestlers), a lot more big companies and sites are set up or setting up. Bluesky never had the 'what server do you wanna sign up on' deal like mastodon does so that first barrier that kept most people away isn't fucking things up.

Plus just from my own usage it feels a lot easier to find what you want (and have other people find you) since Bluesky has feeds you can save and browse instead of having to search for everything on Mastodon.

Pretty much every interest I have I've also found feeds for, YMMV of course, but the content is 100% there now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

My Bluesky feed is busier than my Twitter feed was when I left a couple of years ago.

[–] tteok 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bluesky added almost 100k just in the past day. The content feeds are busy busy busy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'm not so worried about Bluesky getting the huge wave of new accounts, but more if those accounts will be actively posting next week or just slink back to the dirty birdsite out of habit. Good to know from yours and other replies that its very active at the moment though!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for posting this! And also thanks for highlighting my starter pack.

I just wanted to add one helpful tip; a lot of feeds on Bluesky gather posts based on both hashtags and emoji used in them, and the emoji for the main pro wrestling feed is 🤼. If you post about wrestling on Bluesky, it will probably get picked up by the feed if you hashtag it appropriately, but include the emoji if you can just to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

And should something show up in the feed that shouldn't be there (you may on occasion receive adult related content, or non-wrestling related fanart) in the feed - Settings > Moderation, there will be several options for hiding keywords, hashtags, and numerous levels of visual obfuscation settings to help remove them from the feed.

It could happen, but with the influx of people the last few days it may not happen often anymore.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Feel free to throw me a follow: https://bsky.app/profile/neoncarnivore.bsky.social

I'm still just poking around, but I'm having fun. Also, Hangman reskeeted a block list for toxic wrestling fans/accounts:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qu6bx5iohqrutvc27jdq6qh7/lists/3lag22ywngl2p

[–] icecreamtaco 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There’s a few personal accounts on Twitter that I have to keep up with for reasons, and one of them is a trump cultist. I want to leave but can’t yet

[–] Lost_My_Mind 9 points 1 month ago

deletes your twitter account for you

There. I ripped the band-aid off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hopefully soon!

[–] icecreamtaco 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You know what I changed my mind. I’ll just bookmark two feeds for a while

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

use xcancel.com, nitter.privacydev.net (sometimes works, and nitter.poast.org :) you don't need an account but you can follow twitter users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

i recommend the xblock screenshot labeller too, which hides/blocks posts with screenshots from other platforms too :)

https://bsky.app/profile/xblock.aendra.dev

the profiler labeller is good too :) https://bsky.app/profile/profile-labels.bossett.social

and the transphobia labeller is good too: https://bsky.app/profile/asukafield.xyz

and the homophobes and transphobes blocklist :) https://bsky.app/profile/numb.comfortab.ly/lists/3kppycyn22u2r

feel free to follow me if you want my random terrible posting and all :P https://bsky.app/profile/netkitten.net

also since i was looking to follow the ones you mentioned, here are their accounts:

eve: https://bsky.app/profile/evewrestling.bsky.social

maple leaf: https://bsky.app/profile/mlpwrestling.bsky.social

njpw: https://bsky.app/profile/njpwglobal.bsky.social

tna: https://bsky.app/profile/tnawrestling.bsky.social

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the block lists (I'm way too excited about all the people I've blocked already)

And followed you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh also deck.blue is the equivalent of tweetdeck but it's free :)

https://deck.blue/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

So... Skeetdeck?