Could just be I'm in different circles, but I feel like the main diff between twitter and bluesky is that twitter is uniquely likely to produce people behaving like absolute cockwads. Like, talking in a way that, if said in person, would produce a fistfight, for no reason.
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https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies
1) Massive network size
2) Recursive rewards for engagement (popular shitpost-->more followers-->more popular shitposts)
3) High level of interaction (as opposed to Instagram which is more siloed)
...you inevitably get performative dickbaggery.
Twitter is like moving to a slightly better suburb of Fight Town. There's a bit less fighting, but a lot of the same people again and again.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/578724-5-points-for-anger-1-for-a-like-how-facebooks/
This Feral Mills strip by @kewkoh.bsky.social is pretty on-point:
https://bsky.app/profile/kewkoh.bsky.social/post/3l6pjm5x2n223
I remember reading about a researcher into divorce who, after parsing thousands upon thousands of hours of video of married couples talking, and doing frame-by-frame to analyze microexpressions and whatever…
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I’m honestly flattered you believe what I do on here counts as ‘thought’.
(I think we should have an option to set expiration dates when we block.)
Being able to shut down quote tweets has been much more important than I realised.
Everybody shits there. So nobody feels bad about shitting there. Broken window, man.
(Trying my best to emulate Twitter's ambiance)