Competitions on X :(

[CuteBucket]

lmao yet another thread just asking SE to let us have contests anywhere besides Xitter, even here on the forums, and it's devolved into political fighting. imagine having moderated forums.

I'm not entering any contests because 7.0 broke both my WoLs beautiful faces and so I no longer enjoy gposing or taking screenshots, simple as that.

[Clockworks]

No idea why you deleted your post Bonoki, your post had good points in it especially regarding people wanting SE to drop Twitter if they did add an FFXIV account on bluesky.

[Gurgeh]

At the end of the day the only reason to be so anti bluesky 'but' also pro X, is if your a closet Bluecoat Crystal Brave Garlean .

[Hallarem]

If someone says "left" or "right" apart of their sentence anything said in the same paragraph should be ignored.
Team this, team that waah waaah.

If you want to sign into the contest, sign in and ignore the rest of Twitteer. If not, dont. Simple as.

[Daughterofdeath]

If someone says "left" or "right" apart of their sentence anything said in the same paragraph should be ignored.
Team this, team that waah waaah.

If you want to sign into the contest, sign in and ignore the rest of Twitteer. If not, dont. Simple as.

really shouldn't regardless of where you stand there should be alternative methods to it them just saying here do it on twitter and thats it is wrong rather you like twitter or not you should accept that fact, they should atleast do it on 2 other platforms as well

there is 0 reason why they couldn't make a submission spot on the lodestone itself as an alternative

[Clockworks]

No, they should do such as OP suggested. Stop with the third party nonsense and hosts these events themselves, they have the resources to do so, and they did so in the past.
There is no benefit for us consumers to have to use any form of third party service to participate in these contests. It's only the company that benefits from this system.

Companies want to make money ? No way.

[Divinemights]

This is a event hosted by two Japanese firms using a platform know to both Western and Eastern.
Whatever you people's beef with platform X don't really matter
Bluesky?
It is not known to Eastern yet, whether you like it or not.

[Mawlzy]

This is a event hosted by two Japanese firms using a platform know to both Western and Eastern.
Whatever you people's beef with platform X don't really matter
Bluesky?
It is not known to Eastern yet, whether you like it or not.

Google AI disagrees:

"While exact numbers fluctuate, Japan is among the top countries with Bluesky users, with a significant portion of the platform's user base, and has seen growth driven by functionality and privacy concerns related to X (formerly Twitter)."

[CaptainLagbeard]

Google AI disagrees:

"While exact numbers fluctuate, Japan is among the top countries with Bluesky users, with a significant portion of the platform's user base, and has seen growth driven by functionality and privacy concerns related to X (formerly Twitter)."

The same Google AI that gave such gems of truthful information that doctors recommend smoking 2-3 cigarettes daily during pregnancy.

[Mawlzy]

The same Google AI that gave such gems of truthful information that doctors recommend smoking 2-3 cigarettes daily during pregnancy.

It was quicker than quoting one of the source articles.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/busines...-social-japan/

Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics

"Japanese social media users are quickly taking to Bluesky and other X alternatives, with data suggesting the start of a durable trend.
According to Similarweb, monthly active user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October, while figures for X were down over that time.

And daily active user numbers increased on Bluesky into the first two weeks of November.

Analysts and academics note that the U.S. presidential election and the accompanying polarization have probably had little to do with the Bluesky boom in Japan. It might have had more to do with functionality and privacy.

“Most Japanese users pay little attention to the U.S. culture war,” argues Jeffrey J. Hall, a researcher specializing in Japanese politics, nationalism and pop culture.

“Changes in terms of service regarding AI (artificial intelligence), changes in the block feature and the presence of so many bot-like ‘impression zombie’ accounts are viewed negatively by Japanese users,” he added."

And so on.