one thing I do hate about the experience of going viral on here as opposed to Old Twitter is that the thing that makes you mute a post on here is a flood of non sequitur replies from people with poor reading comprehension, which is somehow endlessly more frustrating than threats and insults
For me, it's the people trying to fix my jokes by making a functionally identical, worse version of the same joke. Gulag-worthy, to be sure.
alligator alcatraz worthy 🤣🤣🤣
I ddidn't understand a word you said, but I will defend to the death, you're right to say it.
Better, though, ultimately
It really does feel like bots might explain this.
it is resist lib facebook coded in some ways if that makes sense
there was a huge exodus from meta after several MSNBC hosts encouraged moving here
um that's MS NOW, now, excuse me
blue sky is using the button in the top left wrong, that backward arrow should always carry you to the parent comment so people know what they hell they are doing
Oh believe me, that’s all the bluechecks do over there these days
I don't want to wonder what the fuck is the matter with people, I want it to be obvious
Just because you don't like old people natural disasters and sequins doesn't mean anything.
they should at least have the decency to not be able to read in a funnier way!
My only viral post involved me sharing someone else's wedding photos, which I clearly explained in the post. Woke up the next morning to about a hundred "congrats!" from random strangers
Going viral here is a nice mishmash of "oh you don't like centrist dipshit? Tell me more about how you are fash" and "oh you don't hate centrist dipshit enough? Tell me more about how you are fash". With a nice dash of "have you tried voting to solve this structural issue that pols won't solve?"
Resisting the strong urge to ask you whether you hate waffles
i think it really boils down to how undercooked the discover feed is. always sending post a million miles out of your social orbit to people who should have never run into them
I love when somebody tags my mayor or governor in my replies, like their team is somehow not aware of whatever thing I'm talking about and the random tag under a Bluesky post is gonna be what finally makes them aware of it.
the ambient level of illiteracy here is off the charts which is wild bc i follow so many extremely literate people
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The average person on BlueSky is less evil than on Twitter but somehow is more illiterate. BSky approaches TikTok levels of unable to read at points.
You guys are going viral?
So you're saying you don't like Swan Lake?
turns out "so you hate waffles" was a load-bearing piece of discursive hygiene
gives you something to do at least. the irrelevant replies don't give you any purchase
turns out it's no fun to just ask "are you fucking stupid?" when the answer is clearly "yes"
Now I want French Toast.
Maybe you should check your elitism! (sorry just feeling like a smart ass killing time at Friday happy hour :)
I kinda miss when you'd have a big post and get replies where you could get a conversation going. On here its just incomprehensible gibberish where they think theyre yelling at the manager of the internet or the topic of your post or something
The number of folks without a trace of a sense of humor who spend every waking minute replying to posts in a manner that’s as obtuse as possible is startlingly large.
swolecialism the ones that shout directly at someone mentioned in an article you are just reposting are by far the weirdest tbh
It is like someone shouting at their television except you are the television
😹 ok now i am starting to understand tbh joshua
Honestly half the replies are so weird and out in left field that I think they might be bots.
ETX Gov half the replies are *so* weird and *so* out in left field i do not think even a bot could come up them tbh lol
I don't know whats worse truly. MagaHater2365589 🌊 cooking their brains on the dregs of the internet, or an AI riffing on AI slop all the way down so it sounds like MAGAHater2365589. But maybe barely able to read resist lib is the one job AI will never be able to take.
"i don't get what they're saying, but they clearly put a lot of work into it, so i better figure out how to reply to them"
It’s the boomers internet we are all just posting on it
We learned it by watching them, I guess
The number of times I have gotten halfway through typing “OK well fuck you too buddy” before realizing that they are not intentionally yelling at me, they are trying to yell at our shared source of frustration …
😹 my initial response is always "i should be impeached from what?" jamison
don’t worry darth they might get a majority for impeachment but they’ll never get 2/3s for removal
That's gotta be the most Bluesky specific anxiety- hoping the OP gets I'm being sarcastic in agreement and not arguing against.
I now pretend I didn't understand and either act angry or insulted. The idea is maybe they won't do it again.
I've had to use this an uncomfortable number of times.
LISTEN HOW CAN YOU MAKE JOKES WHEN TARIFFS ARE KILLING SMALL BUSINESSES? /s
my fav is when they demand answers for what someone else wrote in the article
Or the same vibrator and star projector ads viral OP would add after to get their bag 🤣🤣🤣
someone recently replied to me being like “is this the discover tab? i should’ve known” and it’s like…bro you have this backwards. you should know if you’re browsing the discover tab. i otoh only get indications that a post made it there when i got nonsense replies like “is this the discover tab?”
The discover feed was such a mistake and we should be able to opt out
god yes
I’m a big fan of “hide reply for everyone” in those instances