I don’t use either so I have no bias here but the original post is about adding Bluesky (and Threads) as valid links, not about removing Twitter links entirely.
Even if the way they phrased it sounds like they want people to ditch Twitter for Bluesky, that’s not what is being asked for here and frankly I see no issue with adding something like this when nothing else is lost.
What viable argument is there other than potentially “not enough people use it”?
While I see the point of the argument, if enough developers are asking for it; what’s the harm in adding it?
This is not the first time I’ve seen Bluesky links be mentioned in feature requests on here.
If Roblox somehow doesn’t see this as beneficial (I don’t see how they wouldn’t, what exactly are they losing? after all, by the sounds of it, it doesn’t seem like the site is entirely dead as some make it out to be) then that would just show in some form that they don’t really care about the communication developers want.
As mentioned already, Facebook isn’t something I’ve seen anybody use (in a major way) and yet it has its own link. I would argue Bluesky would get way more use out of it than Facebook does, even if Facebook is far from dead and quite the opposite, it shouldn’t be about whether a site has a massive user-base in general, rather whether the site has an active Roblox user-base.
@SkyyOrbs Great feature request, I would love to see more social media options for us developers to link & post on. Anecdotally I haven’t used Threads, but I’ve been enjoying Bluesky recently and so have many of my peers.
I do enjoy browsing Bluesky and seeing what people are up to. It’s a much less hostile and dangerous environment than Twitter’s been in my experience.
I care a lot about the well being of the people who follow my work - and about my own too! - so I think it’d be nice if these options were added.
Bluesky does have a slightly different moderation approach to most other social apps (posts are filtered actively, but the post data is owned and controlled by the owner so can’t be taken down fully).
I think this is reconcilable with Roblox’s model - especially if we’re talking about more mature and autonomous people - but I do think you would need to consider moderation. Back when devs lobbied for Discord social links (see Roblox’s prior reservations on Discord here), I don’t think moderation was properly talked about in the community conversation, and as a result it’s caused no end of trouble for Roblox having to deal with the prospect of people using Discord in shady ways.
The people in charge of Bluesky seem very nice and responsive though; someone could reach out to them to ask about how they intend to handle younger users.
My only counter to this idea is to instead allow any custom links, not just specific social sites. It’s 2024, social sites will be coming and going more often in the future and only allowing specific ones is not very future-proof.
This falls into a similar category as the feature request for social links on the Talent Hub:
I highly support this as I myself have moved from the hostile cesspool that is Twitter/X and moved to BlueSky instead, and I would absolutely love to link my account to my profile.
I also feel like Twitter/X should be removed entirely from being added to profiles and groups because as I said, it’s a complete cesspool and just plain toxic as its fillled with disgusting views such as, homophobia/transphobia, racism, sexism and so much more and I don’t think we should be redirecting users to a site that hosts such content with those views.
Around 80% of the people I follow moved to BlueSky entirely, and around 40% deactivated their Twitter accounts (which I might follow suit) upon abandoning them. Having BlueSky as an alternative would help me completely abandon Twitter as I think it is more toxic to be on there. I rarely even touch Twitter now that BlueSky has all of my favourite creators on it and more are doing the same.
I do think that adding BlueSky is a good idea outside of the whole Twitter thing happening. It gives an extra social link that is very popular and growing way bigger with every passing day.
Yeah same, set that up the other day for a few of my accounts.
Even if Roblox never supports the fediverse, Bluesky support will be helpful for people that are using fedi still. Although saying that, I’ve already noticed that it doesn’t mirror my posts with polls in them and it’s heavily truncated.
This is exactly what people also said about Threads and it ended up dying after a month.
100 MILLION signed up for Threads in the first 5 days (or less) since its release and it still managed to die. Bluesky is no exception here. Let’s be real.
I don’t think that is huge or even comparable to Twitter, they probably get 20x (or higher) the amount of posts per second Bluesky gets. I don’t have the exact stats so excuse me if I’m wrong but like I said this is nothing compared to Twitter.
Probably also worth observing that Twitter itself mostly just derives it’s legitimacy from news and politics events due to the way the platform is set up. Instagram still eats them for lunch quantitatively, but we don’t talk about Twitter being DOA.
Realistically it isn’t about user count. It basically doesn’t count for anything unless you’re an investor or site engineer - the more relevant stats is how engaging it is for you personally. Some communities live in different places on the internet and that diversity of location is OK - nobody needs to be biggest.
Bluesky is so much better and has more security than twitter. Bluesky has extensive moderation options for users to keep safe and only see the content they want to see in their feed.
Bluesky and Threads on Roblox would be amazing! I’m actually really tired of Twitter being on our only option when it comes to text-based social media.
The more options that we have, the bigger our reach to new users gets.
I agree but Bluesky is still not that big to deserve the attention of Roblox engineers. Let time judge, let’s see how it will do in a year. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe you’re wrong, but I doubt this platform will make it very far. Many people tried and failed like I said with Threads, this story will be no different.
