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come, internet
sit by the fire.
tell me a story

just for clarity's sake - i asked this same exact question on bluesky at the same time.

not one like, not one repost, not one reply. 100% completely ignored.

_CLEARLY_ the better converations are happening here.

@Viss Yeah I mean I don't wanna tell you a story 300 characters at a time

Viss

@mttaggart apparently neither does ANYBODY on bluesky.

@Viss Jokes aside though, no you're totally right. I've had engagement over there but it's so low-value compared to what we get up to over here.

@mttaggart i get the imrpession that unless youre a celeb of some kind, brought tens of thousands of followers with you from another platform, or only talk about bluesky or politics, you're just going to get overlooked.

@Viss It's funny. I'm seeing a lot of the old "cool kids" show up but... absolutely zero substance.

@mttaggart the chief reason those 'cool kids' showed up in the first place was because bsky was invite only. you were only a cool kid if you ran the gauntlet to get an invite and were let in. the moment the invite only part fell off, that luster vanished overnight, and now since anybody could join, the people who worry their cool kid card was revoked are now desperately trying to keep it cool

but i dont think its working.

@Viss I actually mean newcomers whom I've not seen in years. But with few exceptions, I'm just not seeing relevant material. But hey is early days and I'm trying to keep an open mind

@Viss Also I have a story in mind for this thread once the kiddo is asleep and I have time to write it up.

@mttaggart @Viss there once was a man from...

@Viss @mttaggart I didn’t use it much for the last year because I wasn’t cool enough. My “on topic” infosec material want a fit for happy hour over there. I’m giving it another shot again and hoping that with the influx of people, the culture will change a bit.

@accidentalciso @mttaggart good example - just now i saw some reposts from lizzo saying something like how 'bsky is safe from propaganda and bots and racism'

she has no idea how wrong she is, and when that becomes clear its gonna be very jarring.

cuz they dont have any 'anti nazi / anti racist' policies over there, its all just 'labeling'. users are on their own in terms of moderation.

and the influx of shitheels from twitter looking for abuse victims has already begun.

@accidentalciso @Viss @mttaggart

I have a theory about this, but we shall see how it plays out

Twitter started out fun, but I don't think it's for the reasons everyone thinks it is. Nobody knew how to appease the outrage robot overlords, so everyone just did whatever, and that was fun

But some people figure it out, and that's what made it less fun

I have no doubt the robot overlords will be appeased much more quickly this time, maybe too quickly

@joshbressers @accidentalciso @Viss Very possible, but the quick-block culture is a positive complication for that dynamic. As ever, I'll remain optimistic and open to being wrong.

@accidentalciso @mttaggart oh theres definitely that, but theres a lot of ... posturing? folks are peacocking around going on and on about how great the place is, but if you want to have an actual discussion, you get ignored because they're too busy peacocking.

@mttaggart
> I'm seeing a lot of the old "cool kids" show up but... absolutely zero substance

I bet Blaze loves it ...

@Viss

@strypey @mttaggart this thread is still getting bites too, the second day, and the one person who responded over on bsky came here to add a second story because they saw that nobody was interacting over on bsky. so like, thats another measure