The site culture (as prickly and nasty as it could sometimes be) was better before the last major spikes, not just because it was smaller, but because many of the people who came over with the big Resist Accounts were and are completely feral
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And it’s very hard to deal with the scold problem when everyone who’s on here has been exposed to years of right wingers claiming that Twitter/X wasn’t sufficiently welcoming, got it turned into their cesspool, and then immediately tried to come over here to start the process again
sep 1, 2025, 1:25 pm • 27 0 • view
The other thing about Bluesky’s scold issue is that the strong community culture (not at all a bad thing necessarily!) makes us easy marks for people who want to kick the hornet nest and then run elsewhere to complain about it, and I don’t know how you fix that issue either
sep 1, 2025, 1:29 pm • 16 0 • view
Every time this comes up, I'm just like...not once, in the thirty years I've been online, have I ever cared or been asked to care about the financial health of the platform I was using. I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care now, but I suspect it's only because left/liberalism has been found at fault
sep 1, 2025, 1:27 pm • 60 1 • view
(I also have a reasonably big account for Bluesky and don't have any problems with Blue MAGA, whereas I had many problems with them and actual nazis on Twitter, so idk)
sep 1, 2025, 1:29 pm • 22 0 • view
Restricting comment settings has *absolutely* helped
sep 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 2 0 • view
It feels once again like a situation where only the left has agency and the right is weather. "We MUST do our part to make Bluesky less hostile! Also the most successful text-based social network is run by a literal Nazi who turned a chatbot into MechaHitler. Again, we must create a hospitable envir
sep 1, 2025, 1:32 pm • 19 0 • view
And as others have pointed out it’s all whistling past the graveyard anyway, because “text-based social media” isn’t where the growth is regardless
sep 1, 2025, 1:34 pm • 7 0 • view
Which also gets to the heart of the false claim, which is that a lack of significant growth means you're dying. Products and services that have a steady customer base are the norm, not the exception. Venture capitalism has broken people's brains.
sep 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 11 0 • view
I just ignore them or block them idk
sep 1, 2025, 1:28 pm • 1 0 • view
I swear, some guy has posted every month about how Bluesky is about to implode because they can’t bully people into agreeing with them. At some point they’ll keep doing it despite the fact that it’s been years.
sep 1, 2025, 1:24 pm • 3 0 • view