Some people.. use this website.. to have regular conversations just with particular people they are interested in talking to. Also, you don't need to follow everyone you want to keep up with. Lists and feeds exist. This is a different website. Learn to use it.
I follow Erin but I really, truly don’t care that she doesn’t follow me. More importantly, imo, is that she engages with people that comment on her posts.
Hey, you don’t expect every author to read a book written by every person who has read their book. We don’t do this with any other kind of information/entertainment flow. If you want reciprocity, make friends. Don’t demand it from people on the internet.
No definitely not. I’m not that calculating! I just follow people that seem interesting and that I’ve interacted with regularly enough to know they’ll be fun to see more often.
The dude didn’t even get the math right, it was 1%, not 0.1%.
I legit laugh 😂 at Erin’s notion of cutting it down to like only her 10 favorite people just for shits & giggles to watch the followback-creeps’ heads explode for a few days.
This is so odd. They’re benefitting from following you, that’s why they (we) are doing it. You’re literally providing unpaid value with your posts. I think some folks need to revisit their concept of reciprocity 🤦🏻♀️
I follow you because I've come to value your insights on a variety of topics about which I care a great deal, not because I expected a follow back. Thank you, Erin, and please keep being you! 🙏
It is certainly a thing to show up on a public social media platform, insist loudly that your rectitude guide our personal morality, wind up your statement with an "Am I right, guys?! LOL!" like the world's shittiest, thirstiest stand-up ... and then accuse other people of narcissism.
I strongly resisted making subjective block lists but I'm so glad I finally gave in and made the "LiveJournal 2002 Flashback (derogatory)" so I have a place to put everyone who whines about block lists and people not following them back
It's so satisfying to add people who won't stop fighting with me about having been added to a block list. Though it's mostly slowed down because, lol, they're now all using block lists I'm on. (Blessed silence.)
If you followed me back, I would be a little weirded out. We've never even interacted here, that I can recall. I follow you for news. I don't provide news or info useful to you and you don't know me or my kids! Unless you started watching tokusatsu and I missed it...why *would* you follow me?
why the fuck do you care about how many people she follows? what does that mean? what use is this metric? let people be happy about shit without having to come along and try and piss on their shoes
The more pissy someone gets about not being followed back, the more certain I am that they're either a spammer/scammer account or building up followers to sell the account to someone (who will probably be a spammer/scammer).
Can you imagine previous generations asking what sorts of things our generation judges each other by, and having to tell them something this fucking stupid?
a screen capture of the post above, gotchaimages dot bsky dot social has been labeled a troll by bsky.
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Imagine kicking back, reading a scroll full of 'Todays news: more gun control legislation got done + effective responses to climate change happened, details at 7' and THEN going, hey. I got plenty of fucking time to participate in a thoughtful discussion on healthy social media engagement.
snort if I wanted to follow some rando guy posting a few outdoor phone cam pics and canned preschool political opinions, there's you and 8 million or so of bluesky's userbase to pick from. you got dogs trees and whatever in life, why waste your online time malding that popular women don't notice you
Just because she has posts I wanna read doesn't necessarily mean I have posts she wants to read. If you posted something worth reading, you'd understand why following them all back is an impossible ask.
I had a lovely exchange with one of my favorite podcasters recently. I was buoyant for days, yet it never occurred to me that they'd follow me back. Not. Everything. Is. About. You.
I don’t want a bunch of followers who are just there to boost engagement or whatever. I assume that anyone worth following feels similarly. If you periodically comment something funny or informative, that makes you eligible for a follow.
Maybe you’re prioritizing something that isn’t particularly important. 🤷♀️ I’m a micro-account. I don’t expect the larger accounts I follow to follow me. I suspect they’re…kinda busy.
I liked it, I just tripped over the implications of you thinking about yourself that way, which was the opposite of your point I realize, and wanted to jokingly acknowledge it
Cheers! ☺️ I don’t think of myself as micro i.e., insignificant. Just that I know I’m not a Big Swinging D**k™️ on social media and that’s okay! I’m not trying to grow my account for the sake of growth; I’m just trying to connect with lots of interesting folks.
Right? I just want to make people 1) laugh 2) feel good or at least better 3) be notified of something interesting or possibly important that they may not have encountered yet. Let’s be good to each other in these diabolical times.
1) Why do you care?
2) Do you actually engage with the 1.7k people you follow or are you just following in the hopes people will follow you back so that numbers go up and brain go brrr?
Ohhhh I get it, this guy’s mad and confused that Erin didn’t have to follow farm, that people genuinely follow her because she’s interesting and he doesn’t understand how social media works.
Because she wants to have a feed she can actually enjoy you insufferable twit. Automatic follow back is such a fucking toxic idea. It's all about numbers and "influence" instead of entertainment.
I’m trying to connect with like minded #resisters over here. I’m creating a network. Feeds are here for a purpose and I am using them as they are intended.
You can make different choices without being judgmental.
I believe that you believe that. I believe that there are "resistance" accounts that encourage that. Unfortunately, without a lot more knowledge than you (or I) have, the probability of picking up hundreds or thousands of inauthentic accounts (disinfo or just grifters) that way is very, very high.
Sure, I see your point. And that’s on me to sort out. I curate my feeds and remove people as necessary. Allow me to be me and use my intelligence to sort things out.
The fact that you even think like this says everything about what an insufferable, clout-poisoned social media user you are. Obsessed with making up ways to artificially juice your follower account and scolding people for not living up to your arbitrary, self-serving standards. Just log off.
Right? I follow half that number and still miss a lot of posts. People following thousands of accounts seem more interested in boosting their own follower counts than actually enjoying Bluesky.
Obviously not for both points. She's interacted with me despite not following me. I'm guessing she doesn't follow you and yet has interacted with you. She follows several hundred people and so obviously is interested in their opinions. Just be interesting and then you get interest.
Erin interacts with her followers all the time and she is interested in the opinions of others—she interacts with people who reply to her all the time. She could never do this if she followed over 60,000 people, because her feed would be a firehose of posts on subjects that don’t even interest her.
Hey, I know that you're an unhinged and entitled weirdo, but I feel like it's important to point out that you're also bad at math- it's not 0.1%, it's closer to 1%
Has it occurred to you that you, personally, are not interesting enough to be worth following, and if you personally are not interesting, then it is likely that many other people are also not interesting. Makes you think
From a purely literary point of view, the best part is that you’ll learn nothing from it, and keep stepping on rakes and wondering why people point and laugh.
You’re doing the standard round of “haha I’m laughing with you!” to people who will forget you exist in 10 seconds.
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Or 0.09%
Or 1.1%
anagrams to:
shh, ya twit
(Brb, off to calculate my ratio, lmao…)
I legit laugh 😂 at Erin’s notion of cutting it down to like only her 10 favorite people just for shits & giggles to watch the followback-creeps’ heads explode for a few days.
As in “Silence is golden, duct tape is silver.”
“BRAGGING!”
It looked like commentary to me, but I'm not envious of other people being entertaining enough for people to want to follow them.
someone being interested in what one has to say doesn’t imply inverse correlation! and that’s fine!
Similarly, there are a lot of bots (and some people) interested in our posts, and we're not interested in theirs.
There are people who post good stuff that stresses us out. Why is this difficult for people?
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go back to twitter chump
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It sounds wonderful and idyllic and completely removed from our reality
She doesn't owe me anything.
You want followers? Have better posts.
Who are you to judge?
This is weird celebrity parasociality brought down to the micro level, and no one needs that!
Thank you.
(Does that scan?)
2) Do you actually engage with the 1.7k people you follow or are you just following in the hopes people will follow you back so that numbers go up and brain go brrr?
You can make different choices without being judgmental.
Clout means nothing to me. I’m connecting.
That kind of hyperbole (ZERO INTEREST) is for Twitter. Relax, BSky is way better than that.
Follow scolding it's one of the few things I'll scold people about doing on social media. You should use it on a way that makes you happy.
lol
And there are so many ways of interacting beyond the main timeline. Replies, feeds…
Stop being an asshole for attention. It's bad.
that's a pro click right there
No one owes you a follow, but I bet there are more humiliating ratios like this one in your future.
You’re doing the standard round of “haha I’m laughing with you!” to people who will forget you exist in 10 seconds.
7 seconds.
That’s why. 😑