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The Great Twitter > Bluesky Pro Wrestling Migration
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:
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!
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
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
Thanks for the block lists (I'm way too excited about all the people I've blocked already)
And followed you.
oh also deck.blue is the equivalent of tweetdeck but it's free :)
So... Skeetdeck?
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.
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.
Bluesky added almost 100k just in the past day. The content feeds are busy busy busy.
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!
My Bluesky feed is busier than my Twitter feed was when I left a couple of years ago.
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.....
i dont want to get all conspiracy theory over here but once david bowie, prince, and alan rickman died, everything went to shit.
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.
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.
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
use xcancel.com, nitter.privacydev.net (sometimes works, and nitter.poast.org :) you don't need an account but you can follow twitter users
deletes your twitter account for you
There. I ripped the band-aid off.
Hopefully soon!
You know what I changed my mind. I’ll just bookmark two feeds for a while