it’s pretty funny that people being mean in a slightly annoying way is significantly more of an impediment to people being on Bluesky than an X, which is showing you liveleak videos and telling you to end your own life constantly.
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It's so funny. People are like "bluesky sucks liberals are slightly annoying on there" and yeah I guess that's true but people told me to die on Twitter because I didn't like the visuals of the demons souls remake, man I'll take someone being a little annoying
Yeah seeing a tweet from a trans person who tragically killed herself and the entire quote tweets and replies being wignats and other anime perverts celebrating it like I am not that attached to any site I will move or go on less
And like there aren’t any less annoying awful libs on twitter the site is still filled with tweets that get 100k likes how leftists caused Donald
Trump to be elected
I saw this yesterday and it galvanized my belief that nothing bluesky is being accused of will ever be worse than the unfathomable depths of what Twitter is capable of
I've started going to twitter way less but it's really funny when I see a post like "People on bluesky really don't get that you catch more flies with honey" right above an ad of a 55 year old gas station tshirt model holding a shotgun that says "this is my gun. it's for two kinds of animals"
On some level there’s just a sunk cost to Twitter but I do think there’s a baseline frequency that makes you insane that people have grown accustomed to on there, it’s familiar to them and they don’t want to admit that.
Sometimes my friends will send me links to stuff on twitter and I'm immediately reminded of how miserable of a user experience that place is. Why tolerate that nonsense?
I think it's also a vibe thing. It's very reddit/facebook dad annoying on here which is just a lot less tolerable to a lot of people than the kind of annoying and shitty twitter is.
I also think some people lucked out and had their whole orbit move to bsky easily. If you only used twitter to talk to the kind of nerds who came here immediately then it can be hard to understand why someone like me who follows nothing but jpop singers on there is still only a bsky part timer.
Agreed but also I think something different happens which is that people spent so much time with the sludge that they got acclimated to it as reality and also don’t recognize that the people that are on here now are a not insignificant portion of people who dropped out of Twitter several years ago.
I personally see nothing too unusual in twitter.
I opened mastodon some years ago and was greeted with "stalin rocks" instance and a person accusing me in attacking their mental illness for me not agreeing that USSR was good for the enviroment.
I often use telegram, with chats there often being "I drunk beer with that guy so I'll ignore that he thinks that ethnic Russians are supreme beings", and spam bots posting "get naked ai pictures" and adding to "get rich from crypto chats".
I use discord, and there I witnessed a server which required a photo of how hairy your arm is for validation, saw servers deleted by moderators because they just felt like it (with all data), and of course lots of lots bots entering and passing the filters.
I used vk, and there every message could've been sent by vk itself to Russian government to have you prosecuted, all while it's now a beloved platform for western neonazis who like it for "free speech". I browse douyin and weibo and they would serve you misogynistic and jingoistic stuff.
I think the main issue is that Twitter just has the innertia. It laps BS on casual user numbers, it really feels like a juice box fighting a pitcher here.
And people misreading people being mean to them being a feature of Bluesky rather than a feature of them doing extremely backass things that their constituents are extremely angry about.
Because I assume we're talking about *THAT* thing.
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Trump to be elected
I opened mastodon some years ago and was greeted with "stalin rocks" instance and a person accusing me in attacking their mental illness for me not agreeing that USSR was good for the enviroment.
Because I assume we're talking about *THAT* thing.