the urge to burst (artist) people's bubbles on bluesky numbers "comparatively" being good vis-a-vis twitter is mostly muffled by me just sorta not caring about that style of social media anymore but man it's been coming in hot for the past week in a way that's rattling my brain a bunch
like yes your posts are doing "well" for your account being a week old. that will happen when you have a very large following on another website, tell your most dedicated fans "follow me here", and then have your art populate the feeds of people who follow like 20 accounts instead of 2000. it's pretty basic math! and the illusion is going to burst real hard when you realize those are people you've either already gotten the most 'monetization' you can out of them bc they already follow your patreon or aren't interested in doing that because they weren't on twitter either they're just there for the free art.
i'm like sorta waiting for the shoe to drop for some of those artists where they realize the site literally can't do DMs and suddenly "i'm not getting notifications on twitter so getting commissions is way harder" seems like a sorta quaint problem to have
it also makes me sorta sad how fucked things are that people just gotta go where they see others are too. cohost requires you to unlearn a lot of bad behavior and learn a lot of Navigating a Website in a way that is absolutely a barrier to entry that, frankly, i wish it didn't have. it's necessary! it's what makes this place good. but i genuinely think some folks post here, don't see numbers on RTs or likes, just "0 comments" and think 'well this place is dead' and posting somewhere with more visible metrics, meaningless as they are, still makes them feel like that's where you oughta (re-)build.
