I've noticed a ton of announcements on my NG feed where people I follow or befriend here are announcing they're moving over to BlueSky. Now I'm well aware of Elon Musk's latest effort to scare away every last sane(-ish) user of the bloated corpse of Twitter, but personally I left Twitter long before Musk considered buying it (2021), and BlueSky often seems to be described as that version of Twitter, so admittedly I'm going to need some extra convincing to ever try a Twitter-like again.

Does it support video uploads up to two minutes long, like Twitter did? I want to do more animation and short cartoons after practicing making so many still images the past couple of years. How is the phone app? Admittedly, since I do a lot of 3D art on my phone during my breaks at work nowadays (technology can be amazing, sometimes!), it would be nice to have a more mobile-friendly website to post WIPs and quick projects to than Newgrounds.

Are the blocking features really that good? Maybe I was a bit lazy to fully explore Twitter's now-defunct blocking features, or too open-minded to the opinions of strangers/bots back then, but the main reason I left Twitter (and Facebook around the same time) was because checking such websites even on occasion and especially their oftentimes-political "Trending" tabs became too much for me. Seeing the excellent art from people that insisted on exclusively posting in a walled garden like Twitter was not worth being constantly reminded of EVERY stupid Internet "culture war" happening all around the world at any given moment. Either way, I think I should hold off on signing up for any social media website until the conclusion of the most recent US Election--the last day for in-person voting is November 5th, but in the supposedly-likely situation this election proves close, I might have to wait until mid-November until the dust settles, we know the final results, and the campaigning season is FINALLY over). The last thing my nervous wreck brain needs right now is MORE opinions thrown at my face.

Perhaps most importantly, is BlueSky REALLY filling a need I can't already get from posting on Newgrounds (my main hub), YouTube, (a more "mainstream" place to repost my Movie Portal submissions) and BlenderArtists (a forum that gets me more Blender 3D-specific help)?