I wanna dig around in the heads of people who chose to go to bluesky instead of anywhere else and figure out what makes them want that. I straight up cannot imagine wanting to go to Another Twitter and I'm genuinely curious what draws people in that direction
is it the numbers? the vibes? the simple fact that lots of their friends keep going there? or maybe the familiarity? it fascinates me that it gets so much attention, at least among furries
why are so many artists moving to bluesky? like why would you post your art. on a site no one can view without being logged in. that is still invite-only. whaat
posting your art on bluesky is so bad for compression and presentation
like it's max size is smaller, it compresses more, hell it will even size things up to fit what they want??
so not only is your audience smaller, the quality of your work is run through an air fryer from the get go
and this lack of interest results in extreme gullibility. it's not really their fault, it's just that "going with the flow of where everyone else is going" makes you super vulnerable to big ad campaigns, astroturfing, etc.
didn't bluesky pay a bunch of big twitter accounts to move over and promote it and stuff? they BOUGHT their attention, they bought the "wave of friends are joining it, so i better join too"
see also things like the tons of art sites that pop up that people suddenly make accounts for, things like that weird Hive social media, etc....
