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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh hey I'm one of them!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've seen the effect. It's just like after Brazil cut Twitter off. My very niche account has been gaining new followers by the hour.

I have no idea how people interested in Heathcliff are being found by new people. Much less people interested in Heathcliff without Heathcliff.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The most important, how many people will stay.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I might give Bluesky a shot, but it better not end up like f'n Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder how long it'll last before it gets all spammy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

My wife signed up and immediately got spam followers peddling their grindset business growth hacking bullshit, a porn bot, and an “inspirational quotes” karma farming bot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got all those plus a bunch of furry stuff and all kinds of kink accounts. Blueskys block and filters are really good though and it took me all of 30 mins of marking posts as "show me less of this" and blocking obvious bots. Haven't had an issue since, really.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly don't understand why people waited so I don't use mastodon but I did cancel my Twitter account literally the first week he bought it. It wasn't hard to see this coming and I just don't get the delay.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I still don't understand why people even use Twitter or mastodon or blue sky. It all just looks like a Facebook feed to me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I joined bluesky a year ago to check it out. There wasn't much happening on it at the time, so I got bored of it real quick. It was like the original version of Twitter. The day after the election, I got on X to see what kind of shit show was going on there, but my account was permanently suspended. I was just on there the day before the election with no problem. I rarely posted anything on it, but I have made some left leaning posts in the past. Like, 2 years in the past. Kinda weird to suspend my account right after the election. Whatever, I was never a big X user. So, I opened bluesky to see if it improved at all, and holy shit, it's bopping. It's still like old Twitter. It's open source, no ads at all, and they make it really convenient to find accounts to follow with "starter packs". I gotta say, I love it. There are almost no fake accounts or bots. They get weeded out pretty quick. That's become my new Twitter, and Lemmy is my Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are.... are you me?

Because that is my exact experience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Really? You got booted off of X during the election too?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had an old Twitter account I barely used but I sould still hop on here and there to troll some chuds. After the election that account was booted, yeah.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Probably to avoid "Facebook" people (angry middle aged Republicans and easy to swindle old folks).

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