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We should have a bigass sign you have to see every time you open the app that says "ONLY POST TWITTER SCREENSHOTS IF IT'S SOMETHING FUNNY" I swear to god

I agree, if this place goes I might just not go to whatever new site people move to. That said toxicity exists everywhere these days. There's no easier way to get clicks and attention than making people angry

Yeah but at least this website has the nuclear block button

Well they do have a number of features here that allow you to set controls on where your posts are seen so you can choose to not show up in the discover feed if you don't want to posts "escape containment" as they say.

my very first post here was about how we will just retread the same mistakes, and we have, just more deftly and damagingly.

I feel much more free here since I can obliterate people from my plane of existence and not care. I still think many people underestimate how strong the block button is here

Every once in a while I go back over to X to see what I’m not missing. It is a hellscape. It is likely quite a bit worse than you remember. Bluesky may be evolving… but it is way better than X.

This tells me you’ve forgotten how bad twitter is.

Or any rage inducing engagement bait

This site's over the second the owners have to get money out of it, so yeah it's probably shutting down next year

I am beginning to believe strongly that this sort of social media is just inherently bad for us, however well curated

I very much hate that theres a whole genre of post on here of screenshotting something stupid the owner of Twitter said because I very specifically came over here to think and perceive less of him.

maybe the demon has been us all along

yeah, I’ve been here less than a week and I’m already regretting it tbh

It's still different cause block actually works. That's the only thing keeping me on this site and its the only social media I do.

Social media simply bad at scale

It kinda feels like maybe the human brain wasn't ready to be hooked up to the Maximum Exposure to Everyone Else All The Time machine

yeah. only time i got any attention here was being a hater. tempts one to double down

I mean, i dont see the most most vile racist shit on the "for you" page over here so thats a massive improvement 💀

to give us credit, i think the outcome of the 2024 u.s. election made this place much much worse both directly (a million orange-man-bad people came on and started spamming “orange man bad” at everyone as if we hadn’t heard) and indirectly (resumption of the horrors making us all scared & angry)

it reall feels like that. countless times i’ve found someone who seems nice and normal and someone i’d probably get on with great with if i met them just like, lolcow level hate me purely because of how they’ve come across my most annoying posts in the worst context and it’s like ah, well,

and like it has made me more withdrawn. i used to say all kinda stuff and talk about anything im doing and now i triple think whether to post about that movie i saw yesterday and then i dont because i imagine the most annoying outcome and its better to not post. now i just reply to friends lol.

same getting into anything politics is just a losing battle even people who should be on the same side just want to argue all day or doom post

Same, I'm always filled with anxiety whenever I post something.

living in the panopticon makes you absolutely insane. my only experience with this was being a moderately successful fanfic writer and even that drove me to almost completely disconnect from the community. was overthinking every single thing I wrote or even just chatted about on public discords

For what it's worth, you're alright by me

i would like to avoid whatever it is, since i don't currently feel that pressure

I feel this so much. I really, really, really don't like who I am if you look at my feed on this platform, but also it's what the platform facilitates. It's what it pushes you to be!

don't take the shit serious at all get yourself banned over and over and remake all the time it's good for you

for what it's worth your posts showing up on my feed usually feel like a fun respite from a lot of the rest of the site. I've deffo felt the overall tone of this place leaning more twitter over time

there was a time when being quite good at this made people more connected and employable and i think we have reached a tipping point a long time ago that the exact opposite is true of both

I hate to say it, cause I wouldn't be following if I didn't overall find your posts entertaining and interesting, but yes every once in a while you come off much like you described not wanting to come off as. I don't think it's your fault, I think it's the platform environment, as you described.

Bluesky is definitely the platform for getting the worst impressions of people. Many folks I’m following on here I wouldn’t be if I wasn’t already familiar from other places.

Okay but I follow you specifically for the funny gay parody lyrics immediately followed by game opinions nobody with a normal life can keep up with. It’s part of the fun.

You guys really need to: 1. Take a break from the Internet. 2. Take some responsibility. No one else can make you the person you want to be. If it's so hard because you are too obsessed with likes, you really should get help.

i think it allows for a more holistic view of people, when their thoughts are all laid out like that

I think for me I've accepted that twitterlikes are a place where I'm never really going to be able to express the full breadth of my emotions due to its limited nature. I have to talk conversationally as well. and a site like this just isn't going to be for that ever

This is going to sound like me being sarcastic but I mean it very sincerely - this might be less of an over here or over there issue and more just a natural side effect of being one of the best posters of all time on a platform that's populated enough for that to be a problem

You can try going back to Twitter and confirm it. I have a feeling you will come back with a different outlook about this app.

Ooof paragon playthrough where you only pick "that" kind of renegade option.

Yes simply boycotting 1 social media to join another is simply (at best) akin to simply moving from 1 country to another in the hope to avoid rain.

right? its a term that circulates around tumblr a lot lol

its the ceos fault once again 💔

Social media is for performance

Social media isn't stressful or boring and is not supposed to be an echo chamber. You need diversity of thought and this site lacks it. This entire experience feels like day old flat soda and I hope we get a better alternative.

yeah this place is more or less twitter minus nazis. tbh that's fine for me but that's because I am blessed with a very small amount of followers that are almost all moots, but if I had even a modest following I would dial back my social media use to almost 0

Have you been on Threads lately? It's brutal.

we could have made it look like anything

Mentally ill dumbass.

You're not a real person

I left twitter (and all other social media) in 2020 and just reemerged to poke around on bluesky and honestly it feels the same as back then just with fewer celebs. And then I see what happened on twitter for 2 seconds and get nearly fatal psychic damage.

Posting selects for maladjusted nerds using fandom as a social crutch so over a long enough time scale every platform carcinizes into the Eltingville club

people were open to saying very very personal shit bc they weren't open to the social media panopticon where anyone can wander in and perceive you. it's not like that can't create its own drama, but it's at least very contained. ideal internet space.

My experience is nothing like that. Yes, the doom is the same, but the number of auto-reply bots trying to challenge everything from the color of the sky to whether women should game is entirely different.

No Exit means No Exit

I have you know it is also tumblr

...for your life. And use those block and mute features. There's no escaping humanity. Where ever people are you'll find darkness. But they're not all bad. And not all the time 👍