Sky's not so blue
Thursday, March 5th, 2026 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelI recently set up a Bluesky account for posting pictures of my little travel buddy: https://bsky.app/profile/touristbear.bsky.social
And after I'd played with it a bit, I set up an author account, too: https://bsky.app/profile/lizavogel.bsky.social. I'm mostly name-squatting there, but Bluesky seems to be the least-bad of the major socials, so I figured I'd stake my turf while I could.
Today I went to post another Tourist Bear picture, and discovered that none of my previous posts were visible, and my avatar picture had disappeared. I made a new post; couldn't see it either, logged in or not.
Support email sent.
At least my author account still had avatar and banner pic, and the one post I've made still showing.
Five minutes later, as I'm typing this, I go to copy the URL and discover that Tourist Bear's posts are back, although the avatar is still gone. And grabbing the author account URL, yes, both the avatar and banner pic are now missing, although the one (pinned) post is still there.
This is not encouraging me to spread my social media wings. Maybe I'll just stay here on Dreamwidth, where things, y'know, (knock wood) work.
ETA: Prompt response from support, that this is a known bug and they're working on it. Um... prompt response is nice, but this is literally what your site is for and it's not working? This is not a thing that should happen to a site that's more than about a week old, guys.
And after I'd played with it a bit, I set up an author account, too: https://bsky.app/profile/lizavogel.bsky.social. I'm mostly name-squatting there, but Bluesky seems to be the least-bad of the major socials, so I figured I'd stake my turf while I could.
Today I went to post another Tourist Bear picture, and discovered that none of my previous posts were visible, and my avatar picture had disappeared. I made a new post; couldn't see it either, logged in or not.
Support email sent.
At least my author account still had avatar and banner pic, and the one post I've made still showing.
Five minutes later, as I'm typing this, I go to copy the URL and discover that Tourist Bear's posts are back, although the avatar is still gone. And grabbing the author account URL, yes, both the avatar and banner pic are now missing, although the one (pinned) post is still there.
This is not encouraging me to spread my social media wings. Maybe I'll just stay here on Dreamwidth, where things, y'know, (knock wood) work.
ETA: Prompt response from support, that this is a known bug and they're working on it. Um... prompt response is nice, but this is literally what your site is for and it's not working? This is not a thing that should happen to a site that's more than about a week old, guys.
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Date: 2026-Mar-11, Wednesday 06:21 pm (UTC)I find that mastodon is better, especially if ran by a competent tech team. I'm on toot.cat, do see quite a few authors and librarians and techies, so I don't know if you'd be happier there. And yes, it was created for the cat fart joke. But Woozle also did a good job getting it up, then brought on competent techies to keep the care and feeding going.
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Date: 2026-Mar-12, Thursday 06:54 pm (UTC)My impression of mastodon has always been that it's... siloed? I'm looking for fun people to hang out with, sure, but this is also a writer-publicity thing, or will be if I ever again have anything to publicize. Visibility to the general public is key.