yes, all good points! but i also think there's some rationalizing going on at this point... i don't think matt would have gotten ratioed for pointing out bluesky's growth back when it *was* on a hockey-stick trajectory by people being like "wow this really shows your priorities are all wrong"
the other platforms have found new ways to do harm since this one launched & i think it colored the responses. to me, it's a valid question whether the old metrics should be used to judge a platform that's trying to do better for all stakeholders not only shareholders (bad attitude notwithstanding)
yes, agree it’s a valid question
the quality of whoever decided to follow me blows me away, and i take it as how much better this platform is to connect people that I admire a lot and how this SM is less noisy which might help each other see qualities that given the noise on different SM would not let such connections happen.
I disagree. If he'd cherry-picked some stats during a major twitter exodus to argue that "bluesky is clearly the next twitter!" the ratio would have been just as harsh if not worse.