I can't get into twitter/bluesky/mastodon. I don't like following specific users and I don't like the format 🤷🏽♂️I always end up following someone who then overwhelm whatever feed I have then libs out. I just pop into reddit/lemmy and post whatever shows up and in my inbox then bounce, the maintenance on microblogging is exhausting to me
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the radlibs on bsky got mad when I said Solzhenitsyn was a fascist sympathizer who complained the US didn't go far enough in Vietnam
Me watching bluesky unfold the way I called as soon as it came into existence: 
I can't even imagine the type of person who actually uses bluesky
never understood why we need 2 twitters
"why would a large number of a social media's userbase jump ship when famous shitty guy, Elon Musk, bought it??????" - you rn
isn't it owned by some taiwanese fascist instead? really owning me w/ that i guess
edit: idk who the fuck I'm thinking of because google is insisting there's no taiwanese people involved with it. it's still a liberal shithole idk why we needed 2 of them
I mean a lot of the 'I'm holier than twitter/bluesky' opinions I see seem to focus on how 'awful' they are but conveniently leave out that Twitter up until Musk bought it was the place for getting breaking news for over a decade. I don't think it is hard to conceive as to why people would've wanted to jump ship when Elon started rolling out things like grok. To call Twitter a liberal shithole in 2026 is kinda crazy anyways given that it is most definitely a 'fascist shithole' and has been for sometime with the whole 'grok generate an image of this user naked'
You could very well say the same thing about reddit/lemmy - why do we need two reddits when lemmy as a whole is a liberal shithole as well??? 
You could very well say the same thing about reddit/lemmy - why do we need two reddits when lemmy as a whole is a liberal shithole as well???
But lemmy has hexbear
also i was calling bluesky a liberal shithole but it's really a
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But lemmy has hexbear
...Hexbear is famously run by a liberal clique of power users who want nothing more than to get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected as the 48th President of the United States
I’d like to make one clarification. Hexbear is full of liberals, except for me, I’m the one true leftist on the site
as much as i've had occasional problems with hexbear administration idk I fully trust y'all only to support such an outcome out of sheer terminal irony poisoning
also I had to google like, who is the 47th, and idk IMO they shouldn't count dudes twice just because their terms are out of order, they're just juicing their president count
as much as i've had occasional problems with hexbear administration idk I fully trust y'all only to support such an outcome out of sheer terminal irony poisoning
you should never trust a moderator or administrator of any platform, they will always let you down 
also I had to google like, who is the 47th
Guess who demanded that Boeing's upcoming F-22 replacement must be called the F-47.
James Comey dutifully updating the shells every other term. Context (warning: cognitohazard for unprecedented suburban cracker shit): https://archive.is/t1y6G
Its a con. Liberals got mad at twitter and instead of going to anything else they went to bluesky because they bought into the idea that it is some mythical twitter that didn't have algorithm and wasn't owned by bad conservates. It would be "federated' " eventually " along with a bunch of other promises.
They literally went to it because musk bad and this new thing looks and acts like twitter. Couldn't get anyone to anything else to save my life (was a social media manager) and I just kept getting these bullshit excuses and it always boiled down to the same shit.
You mean the social media system designed to be just like twitter except with even worse engagement with other users isn't retaining active users?
Crazy that Threads still does so well in so many metrics considering its place in popular culture is almost nothing. Bluesky, for as small as it is and apparently struggling, still gets a fair amount of play thanks to a handful of power-users and what not.
I've no dog in this race; I'm a Mastodon dead-ender. But it's more my methadone after I left Twitter than anything else. I've got some friends on Bluesky willing to ignore its connections to crypto and Bain Capital and what not because some of their favorite YouTubers or whatever are on there.
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