BlueSky Stuff!!
Yo,
So extra post today.
While I've been on BlueSky for awhile now, the app has recently taken off in the wake of the recent US election-- now exceeding 25 million users! For those frustrated with both the climate and the increased restrictions and loss of basic functions on Twitter, BlueSky has become increasingly more attractive and many creators have setup camp.
Thus, I wanted to extend an invitation to all of you, if you're already on there, thinking about making an account, or just looking for another way to help out Straight!?.
I'm also posting custom content on there as well as will be sharing some early teasers and maybe some contests to help incentivize people to follow.
Let's be honest: I suck at marketing so I depend a lot on the community to help spread word about the project and just following some of your favorite creators can be a great way to support their project without spending anything at all. Basically, sharing or liking helps increase our engagement and helps others that may be following you, to see what we're up to. Everything helps.
(God, I sound like a fucking commercial...)
Since BlueSky is still in it's infancy, now is a great time to get on and figure it out. I will say there's a bit of a learning curve but luckily, established accounts on there can help get you started using their "lists."
Here's a list of ways to help get you started and additionally help support me and Straight!? start a new life away from Elon's tentacles:
📋Feeds📋
Instead of depending on the app to show you content, BlueSky allows you to make your own algorithm-- or you can just use other people's algorithms, called Feeds.
By following this feed, it will pull in any other creator who uses specific hashtags to post. This is basically a way to help funnel all the adult games into one channel so you can easily find other projects-- or if you're creating your own-- it's a great place to advertise and start out. Be sure to follow it, share it, pin it, and smash the LIKE button to help make it more attractive to other users. Also be sure to tell your other favorite creators about it, too.
🎮Aaryn Custom Lists🎮
You can also find a list of creators from my profile to help get you started. Just click on the LISTS tab on my profile and you can quickly go through and look at other creators and decide whether you want to follow them as well. (Ignore the "Exceptions" list on my profile-- that's used to filter out posts from my custom feed quickly).
I also have a STARTER PACK there as well if you want some other people to follow. Just ignore my random news links (I'm still trying to sort through objective news sources) or the fact that I made a custom Sonic the Hedgehog news feed-- there's worse things I could be addicted to!
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Copy Your Following List From Twitter🍗
The last way to get started to quickly move from Twitter to Bluesky is to use a migration tool that helps copy your list quickly. This will search your Twitter following and then try and find them on BlueSky. These aren't 100% accurate but they can get you started and it's quick. They're a little confusing at first. Feel free to search for your own but I used
Sky Follower Bridge that works with Chrome. I just removed it after the migration.
If you can or are able to, I'd love to welcome you over there and if you have problems with things, you can always reach out and ask. There's also the
Straight!? Discord if you wanna find real-time help. It's ok to tag me. If i'm available, I'll try and help you out or maybe one of the other peeps can.
Thank you for all you do, I'm forever grateful for each and every one of you<3
-Aaryn