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Thanks for this whole thread. My feelings exactly. Apparently I'm supposed to make myself miserable by going over to Twitter and arguing all day long in some vain effort to achieve some vague goal. No thanks.

the whole discourse is so weird on like eight different levels!

this whole week of Bluesky discourse is once again just very weird like this is not only a strange generalization, you could easily say this about America as a whole just a lot of ambiguous angst about bluesky with no actual solution. are you wanting people to go to substack? Threads?

It's telling that they would rather yell at us instead of actually asking us why we don't want to be on "those" platforms. aka, they just mad that there are people that don't glaze them.

Bluesky can't be bought, they purposely made it so

Your negativity is toxic and unwarranted

AMEN! I’m a small account but I will never understand the constant yammering about the site itself. Just use it as you please or don’t. There are so many more interesting and critical issues to discuss.

I use BlueSky because I like having at least one social media platform that isn’t terrible for my mental health.

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Organize Protest Vote

Hang out,... Get in arguments with people who you broadly agree with. Take a breath. Feel less alone for a minute. Twitter sucks in part because journalists desperately wanted it to be integral to society so it got coopted by fascists. I don't give a shit if fascists think this place sucks.

And now people I ostensibly respect are calling me and the people I follow on here (who actually do have real world influence) dweebs for not eagerly agreeing with him.

As a cynic, I think a lot of the naysayers about Bluesky are annoyed that they don't have the influence here that they believe they are owed.

Exactly. Toxic relationships are unhealthy. I rather be with people who makes me laugh. 😄

It’s a microblogging website you guys, god damn, this isn’t the charge of the light brigade. At least when kids play with toys they do it with a smile.

Ryan Broderick is right that the real limitation of Bluesky is video. On the other hand, I don't know how they could fix that without huge investments.

Still every week I hear huge American, non-toxic influencers complain how much they hate Twitter, just want a place where they can talk to online friends and íf they take action; it's them silent quitting social media... ... like... wtf? Just move your asses to Bluesky. It's not X or nothing.🤦‍♂️

I'm sure open to some revolutionary (outside the box) ideas on saving this experiment in self-governance. And yes, daily survival and connections as, together, we SEE the truth. Pissed off.

I'm here because I want to be here, and not there anymore. Every other platform has algorithms that push content I don't generally care to engage with, and prevent others from engaging with mine. So why even bother? Waste of time.