Post something before you start following people. That helps them know you're really "here" and that you might not be a bot. Reposting is okay when it's meaningful, but a lot of reposting just looks like a bot.
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As an author, can you give some tips on how to write to local newspapers about issues you're passionate about, and get them published? Thanks, I need a little help
This is a comic a follower of mine sent me today, it's about a punk band that disappeared in 1980 and also an anarchist sent to the far future by H.G. Wells' time machine! He has reopened pledges for it on Kickstarter! It's well worth checking out!
I believe that reposting what you "like" is good for everyone...
It expands our reach...
If it ends up in my notifications
And it has a repost option
I repost so my mutual gets heard...
P.S. In no way am I trying to detract from your post
Just adding my thoughts
I respectfully follow you back
And immediately disagree w/your pinned
Reposting is everything
It kills me if you like my shit yet don't repost it
That's how I grow
That's how you grow
And that on this platform is how we stay in each other's feed
IMHO respectul as possible
I have wondered about that. Some bots will repost anti-bots remarks, presumably programmed to help them look like they must not be the bots they are. It also has 47 quoting it with their own remarks so far, though, so I'd like to think it mostly appeals to live humans.
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What surprises me is the recent flood of accounts with just a few reposts, but 1.5k followers.
Either they've found a way around Bluesky's data recording system, or there's a lot of stupid people not checking before they follow a follow-back post.
Thank you for the follow! I tend to repost more than I post, because there are plenty of other people on this app with more interesting things to say than I do. I'm more the "boost others" type of person. I'll be giving you a FB, of course.
Oh I’m not a bot. When I was a student at Michigan State University in the 1980’s I took a class in Social Psychology, and I wrote a paper on Reagan’s communication style. I have re-thought some of my conclusions.
All of the above. Even though I’m a wheelchair user who can’t wipe my own butt, I was very Republican back then. I’ve come to believe that a conservative who wants to cut social programs hasn’t experienced struggle, yet.
Definitely. Interspersing posts with your own thoughts helps show you're human, or using quote instead of repost so you can say even a little something about what you're reposting. Reposting is fun and important in social media, of course, but we also want to see more of you yourself.
I don’t usually have much to say. I mostly reply to other’s posts, because I’m here to find out what’s going on & some interaction. I share things that I think are funny or important. I also avoid those with no posts or replies.
Not 100 about the reposting but. Because engagement is created more naturally on 🦋 if you agree with a post, reposting makes it more visible. Likes don’t do it
Another thing to look out for a bot is if they only have 10 or fewer posts/rp but have 40k+followers and follow 50k+ people. Or if they try to send you to another site. Also if the profile is $€xually driven. Also read their individual replies, you can usually easily tell if it's fishy.
Great point! I tend to repost a lot because I don’t have a lot of time to spend here. But I do try to interject my own Personal when I can. Hopefully people take the time to peruse my profile to see that I do that.??.
I wish people would realize that. I DO vet, no bios, no posts, no follows. Don't they understand that if there are no posts, no bios, there is nothing to follow.
I get a lot of those following me
I watched Dr. Steven Greer, and Billy Carson last night on YouTube. They we’re talking about the upcoming disclosure project. Are you familiar with this?
Dr. Langley, I must apologize. I thought you were a scammer; I thought you were lying about Wheel of Fortune. Then, I looked it up, and there you are on IMDB as "Self" on Wheel of Fortune, March 6, 7 and 8 1991! I'm so ashamed. I'll never doubt you again.
lol
Reasonable enough. I see "award winning" in so many bogus bios that it is very hard to know which ones really won anything without checking carefully.
In an earlier post, I shared some screencaps from the first of my three episodes. Back then, the limit was 3 days.
Hi how are you I need someone to talk to I am going through a very hard and depressed time I feel like killing my self I am loosing faith and heart is disturb 😭😭😭😭
I agree. It's time consuming but I do check each one who follows me (I do appreciate it). I must be able to connect to the followers in the same way I can connect to the people I'm following. I repost to spread the words that make sense.
Let me add that when I do a follow back, the DMs follow too which means that my vetting doesn't really work all the time!!Because I specifically said NO DMs!!
Yes indeed. I had a big influx in the last week and if I go to their profile and see nothing or just reposts.. no immediate follow back. (I ain’t no follah back gurll!)
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Right.
Also, WHAT are people talking about.
A few 'reposts' and then advertising cosmetics, vacations, meditation, and a few pet videos . . It's luring us to distraction if we digest to much of it.
(and THAT'S what Trump wants)
The main topic is saving Democracy.
Just saw a notification that I got followed by an "adult content" account, and I had no problem with that initially... But I checked it out; no skeets, no reskeets, no replies. Just following 97-ish people.
Blocked.
Maybe that account will turn out to be something glorious, but I'm not risking it.
Unfortunately some just post more (stolen) selfies. Some do a few newsie reposts. I just wish the fembots would be like the illuminati or the weed growers, and just come right out, from the start, and tell me what they want from me. I think things would go smoother and quicker wtt all the side talk.
I was caught out last week, a guy followed me (at least he said he was a guy) I had a look at his account and fb, a couple of days later he sends me a DM inviting me to join the Illuminati !
I thought they were supposed to be supa smart, why would they want 'me' in their elite club ? LMAO
Hi Dr. Langley, Yes, I'm really here. I love your bio. Psychology and superheroes! I owe part of my life to reading Wonder Woman comics in the golden age of comics. Jungian psychologist wrote them and supported girls with their own superhero. Your work stretches far into the future. 😍
Yes i think some of these are bots just building up followers to sell the accounts on. I’ve seen some with tens of thousands of followers and a few thousand followers suggesting people blindly follow back. The troll/MAGA accounts are mass following also to get some followers, I’ve noticed.
Some of the bots (I’m assuming the bots) do also post a few generic replies - just single words or a short phrase, to make them seem legitimate. But nothing to make them worth following. Some OF accounts are also doing that - they’re only here to drive some more traffic to OF.
Yes and what their true motives are- my favorites lol are the ones who post nothing but selfies and especially selfies of them with high $ sports cars, on lavish expensive vacations globally etc lol . I truly Dgaf about any of that. I’m over the materialistic part of life
Finally! Someone else who asked for this! I've been basically begging for people to do this before following me, but they don't read pinned posts before following.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
🤭
No idea why I'm engaging this.
I memorized it in high school when I was supposed to do a dramatic reading of a poem but decided to pretend I was reading because I just wanted to memorize it.
If you only repost, you look automated. Adding your own comment on it helps. Posting your own remarks between reposts also helps you show you're a person and reveal something of yourself as an individual.
The social part of this media is that I do follow the thoughts of my friends. I learn from others. AT THIS STAGE, I am shifting from Facebook, X , Instagram to investing my time in Bluesky. I am very disappointed with Facebook's AI generated mediation.
Agreed. only reposting is like you are just watching TV. Put yourself out there, let people know what your thoughts are on topics. post about what you like and are knowledgeable about.
My #Cheerpit pitch
REBECCAxRIVIERA
A woman's dead. She knew secrets, pple hated her. Everyone has motive, esp those Listy luvs. She’s always tried to do the right thing but aren't some secrets best left buried? So why do they start coming out at a summer party?
Champagne, anyone?🍾🥂
#amquerying #R #M
So true. I do have to say I repost a lot but it is truly meaningful to me and I hope to others who may have missed it.
You are right about posting something it does let people know who you are. maybe your thoughts and hopefully you’re not a bot.
It's more relevant now than ever! I told my wife in his last term...Handmaids Tale is coming soon. I never thought we would have a second term! Buckle up!!
I vet and definitely scroll through the replies to see if they are true blue. But I like to repost things I like and didn't know. Wish I knew how to do memes. Would love to do one of TFG with a bowl of mashed potatoes dumped on his head. Revealed by his sister in Mary's book! Humiliated him!
I agree though for my part as a streamer to be honest. I do get a bit scatter brained at times an forget to either check my socials or respond have always been bad about that. Though the other reason is unless I have something to say I wont speak unless there is a valid reason to do.
If anything, I post too much. Also I just want to say how much I enjoyed your book Batman and Psychology. It was not my normal type of material but it was eye-opening.
Hey, even if there is such as thing as "too much," people know you're human. And I'm glad you enjoyed Batman and Psychology. Thank you for letting me know.
This place can be really cool. I had a guy, put me on a 'grifter' list, because I post about my disability & need for help with med costs, I kindly wrote the gentleman, explained my situation, and he not only took me off the list, but now we are friends.🙂
And I agree, no bio, no posts, no follow.
The gentleman and I shared many qualities and ethos, I found when looking at his page, both skeptic, humanist, I believe he was an atheist, I may be helping book him on yet another friends Deconversion Stories weekly YouTube show
Thanks for the follow, and yes, it is so very nice when logic, facts, and decency matter 🙂
(I just can't see that interaction having happened across our modern political divide)😔
That's why I post so many pics of my pets - they may not be the most photogenic crew, but they're real and they're mine and I hope it proves I'm here. And I take it back, they are too the most photogenic, see?
Oh, yes. Without bio, profile pic, and their first post, I don't even think of them as really being on Bluesky yet. More like they're claiming a spot but not using it.
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How does one have thousands of followers/ following, but no posts, or only a handfull?
So, bots, huh?
Learn something every day. 😁
BUT!!!
I believe that reposting what you "like" is good for everyone...
It expands our reach...
If it ends up in my notifications
And it has a repost option
I repost so my mutual gets heard...
P.S. In no way am I trying to detract from your post
Just adding my thoughts
And immediately disagree w/your pinned
Reposting is everything
It kills me if you like my shit yet don't repost it
That's how I grow
That's how you grow
And that on this platform is how we stay in each other's feed
IMHO respectul as possible
What surprises me is the recent flood of accounts with just a few reposts, but 1.5k followers.
Either they've found a way around Bluesky's data recording system, or there's a lot of stupid people not checking before they follow a follow-back post.
Can we report suspected bots on Bluesky?
I follow back, but when it’s just one post about crypto, bitcoin, or no posts at all, I mute the account.
photo in your AVI and a Bio.
People ask to be followed back, to be on Starter Packs but have zero posts/replies.
Sometimes it's a person we know from Twitter so know them already but most often we don't.
If you have no idea what i post, why would you want to follow me?
#resist
I ate those mushrooms
I should have ate the mushrooms.
Pretty much, I’ve stopped answering DMs.
I get a lot of those following me
Reasonable enough. I see "award winning" in so many bogus bios that it is very hard to know which ones really won anything without checking carefully.
In an earlier post, I shared some screencaps from the first of my three episodes. Back then, the limit was 3 days.
Sorry I couldn’t resist.
Also, WHAT are people talking about.
A few 'reposts' and then advertising cosmetics, vacations, meditation, and a few pet videos . . It's luring us to distraction if we digest to much of it.
(and THAT'S what Trump wants)
The main topic is saving Democracy.
Blocked.
Maybe that account will turn out to be something glorious, but I'm not risking it.
I thought they were supposed to be supa smart, why would they want 'me' in their elite club ? LMAO
I said this a few weeks ago & people were dumbfounded that I'd ask this.
🤦🏼♀️
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
🤭
No idea why I'm engaging this.
How many lines of python would it take to write a repost follow farming bot? Not many! 🤣
He is greatly missed.
aren't you worried the Joker find you?
It would be great, #resist
REBECCAxRIVIERA
A woman's dead. She knew secrets, pple hated her. Everyone has motive, esp those Listy luvs. She’s always tried to do the right thing but aren't some secrets best left buried? So why do they start coming out at a summer party?
Champagne, anyone?🍾🥂
#amquerying #R #M
You are right about posting something it does let people know who you are. maybe your thoughts and hopefully you’re not a bot.
😁🙏
I am a retired long haul trucker. I’ve listened to a lot of audiobooks.
And I agree, no bio, no posts, no follow.
(I just can't see that interaction having happened across our modern political divide)😔