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If you wanna fangirl over any kind of actor... don't. But if you must then choose Crispin Freeman.
Bluesky - "Decentralized" Twitter Alternative. Leftist Tranny Hugbox. "Answer" to Elon Musk's "Fascist" Takeover of 𝕏 (Formerly Twitter).
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NY Times has noticed BlueSky. Hopefully this produces some milk.
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/bluesky-x-social-media.html
The Fragility of Bluesky’s Difference
By Clay Shirky
Mr. Shirky is an associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Into Collaborators.”
Liberals moving away from X are giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere, best described by Hannah Arendt as a place that “gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other.”
Bluesky, the destination of the moment, is experiencing a post-election surge of new users as millions of mostly liberal users of X (nee Twitter) have moved over to the Twitter-like platform, which opened to the public last year. The platform had 13 million users by early November; 10 million more joined over the next month.
Now that social media is ubiquitous, growth in one platform often means lost users for another. The Bluesky migration suggests that the broader the “us” gathered together, the harder it is to prevent our falling on another. (Owners of giant social media platforms often imagine they can get good moderation for many users with little effort, when that is a distinctly “pick two” choice.)
On social media, the political is personal; migrating Bluesky users are signaling political separation from an increasingly conservative X and giving up on the idea of a town square that holds all voices simultaneously.
It’s obvious why liberal users might want to leave X. Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 (and renamed it in 2023), he has reshaped the platform to be more welcoming to racism, misogyny and anti-immigrant and antitrans sentiment than even the old freewheeling Twitter. Abandoning early promises to not reinstate barred users without the judgment of a review board, Mr. Musk reversed previous suspensions and bans for Nick Fuentes, an admirer of Hitler; James Lindsay, an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. activist; and, of course, Donald Trump, who was barred after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Mr. Musk hasn’t just made X more conservative; he has also made it harder for users to ignore far-right and MAGA content, dismantling tools they had relied on to filter out those voices. X was originally a rebranding of Twitter, but over time, the service has become, in internet parlance, a Nazi bar.
Before last month’s election, though, that political transformation was not enough to cause massive defections (though several million users did abandon the platform). When Mr. Musk bought Twitter, he seems to have guessed, mostly correctly, that even users who disliked reactionary politics would not leave. Social media’s proposition is access to other people; for any individual user, moving to a new platform means abandoning friends and followers, the source of social media’s so-called stickiness. Mere personal dissatisfaction was not enough to persuade people to move; some synchronizing event was required.
Mr. Trump’s election was that event. Staying on X suddenly seemed intolerable to many, but they still needed a place to go. Before the election, it was not obvious that Bluesky was the best destination. Threads, which is owned by Meta (alongside Facebook and Instagram), had many times the number of users. If liberals on X were just looking for a populous new home, Threads would have been the logical choice. But Threads reportedly has plans to accept ads, and like most ad-supported services, it will have an incentive to fill users’ feeds with content they have not sought out, one of the issues with X as well.
Bluesky is not ad-supported, does not have the incentive to scale at all costs and provides moderation tools that it says “put users and communities in control of their social spaces,” a distinctly un-X-like sentiment.
Every large space needs moderation, and every moderation regime privileges certain voices and behaviors. Moderating content at internet scale is a famously hard problem, and when X dismantled most formal controls, it simply outsourced moderation to the most aggressive bullies. Bluesky, on the other hand, has a sophisticated set of tools that allow users to simultaneously find people and organizations they are interested in while avoiding, muting or blocking ones they are not.
Letting users decide to whom they want to listen and associate with is not good for advertisers (or adventitious propagandists), but it is good for individuals and for like-minded communities. The people who most need tools to block Nazis and trolls are women with large audiences, as they receive the most abuse; post-election switches to Bluesky by high-profile users like Heather Cox Richardson, Mina Kimes and Quinta Brunson helped coordinate their millions of followers.
In a democracy, political conversation is a struggle between the need to entertain a wide range of ideas and the need for solidarity, so every group needs to be able to select which ideas to focus on and which to ignore at any given moment. It has proved impossible to design a digital space where progressive and reactionary voices even agree on rules of engagement, much less competing visions of society. The amplification of conservative voices and reduction in user control over their own feeds have made this increasingly difficult for liberals on X.
Every social platform is created with its users. Bluesky users are not looking to recreate Twitter. They seem to be, mostly, looking for a more curated experience of what they see and whom they talk to, on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands (the most soulless phrase of this young century).
If Bluesky turns out to be a long-term home for political conversation, it will be because, as also happened on early Twitter, the new arrivals create appealing new habits and norms, not just new content. (There is already some evidence this is happening; Threads is considering letting users opt to see more content from people and organizations they follow, Bluesky’s main advantage over Threads.)
The shift to Bluesky could falter. Bluesky could fail to find a workable business model. Conservatives joining Bluesky, the better to own the libs, could swamp the conversation. But movement toward a more communal platform has already been swift and vast. Demand for social spaces that are organized around user preferences instead of advertiser preferences or owners’ whims may serve as a model for better spaces for political speech and a move away from “scale at all costs” business models.
Clay Shirky is an associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators.”
The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here’s our email: letters@nytimes.com.
Follow the New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, X and Threads.
Mildly amused by the fact that the NYT apparently has social media accounts everywhere EXCEPT Bluesky currently. (See the end of the article.)
As an aside...
Source : https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opinion/bluesky-x-social-media.html
The Fragility of Bluesky’s Difference
By Clay Shirky
Mr. Shirky is an associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers Into Collaborators.”
Liberals moving away from X are giving up on the 20th-century ideal of a public sphere, best described by Hannah Arendt as a place that “gathers us together and yet prevents our falling over each other.”
Bluesky, the destination of the moment, is experiencing a post-election surge of new users as millions of mostly liberal users of X (nee Twitter) have moved over to the Twitter-like platform, which opened to the public last year. The platform had 13 million users by early November; 10 million more joined over the next month.
Now that social media is ubiquitous, growth in one platform often means lost users for another. The Bluesky migration suggests that the broader the “us” gathered together, the harder it is to prevent our falling on another. (Owners of giant social media platforms often imagine they can get good moderation for many users with little effort, when that is a distinctly “pick two” choice.)
On social media, the political is personal; migrating Bluesky users are signaling political separation from an increasingly conservative X and giving up on the idea of a town square that holds all voices simultaneously.
It’s obvious why liberal users might want to leave X. Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 (and renamed it in 2023), he has reshaped the platform to be more welcoming to racism, misogyny and anti-immigrant and antitrans sentiment than even the old freewheeling Twitter. Abandoning early promises to not reinstate barred users without the judgment of a review board, Mr. Musk reversed previous suspensions and bans for Nick Fuentes, an admirer of Hitler; James Lindsay, an anti-L.G.B.T.Q. activist; and, of course, Donald Trump, who was barred after the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Mr. Musk hasn’t just made X more conservative; he has also made it harder for users to ignore far-right and MAGA content, dismantling tools they had relied on to filter out those voices. X was originally a rebranding of Twitter, but over time, the service has become, in internet parlance, a Nazi bar.
Before last month’s election, though, that political transformation was not enough to cause massive defections (though several million users did abandon the platform). When Mr. Musk bought Twitter, he seems to have guessed, mostly correctly, that even users who disliked reactionary politics would not leave. Social media’s proposition is access to other people; for any individual user, moving to a new platform means abandoning friends and followers, the source of social media’s so-called stickiness. Mere personal dissatisfaction was not enough to persuade people to move; some synchronizing event was required.
Mr. Trump’s election was that event. Staying on X suddenly seemed intolerable to many, but they still needed a place to go. Before the election, it was not obvious that Bluesky was the best destination. Threads, which is owned by Meta (alongside Facebook and Instagram), had many times the number of users. If liberals on X were just looking for a populous new home, Threads would have been the logical choice. But Threads reportedly has plans to accept ads, and like most ad-supported services, it will have an incentive to fill users’ feeds with content they have not sought out, one of the issues with X as well.
Bluesky is not ad-supported, does not have the incentive to scale at all costs and provides moderation tools that it says “put users and communities in control of their social spaces,” a distinctly un-X-like sentiment.
Every large space needs moderation, and every moderation regime privileges certain voices and behaviors. Moderating content at internet scale is a famously hard problem, and when X dismantled most formal controls, it simply outsourced moderation to the most aggressive bullies. Bluesky, on the other hand, has a sophisticated set of tools that allow users to simultaneously find people and organizations they are interested in while avoiding, muting or blocking ones they are not.
Letting users decide to whom they want to listen and associate with is not good for advertisers (or adventitious propagandists), but it is good for individuals and for like-minded communities. The people who most need tools to block Nazis and trolls are women with large audiences, as they receive the most abuse; post-election switches to Bluesky by high-profile users like Heather Cox Richardson, Mina Kimes and Quinta Brunson helped coordinate their millions of followers.
In a democracy, political conversation is a struggle between the need to entertain a wide range of ideas and the need for solidarity, so every group needs to be able to select which ideas to focus on and which to ignore at any given moment. It has proved impossible to design a digital space where progressive and reactionary voices even agree on rules of engagement, much less competing visions of society. The amplification of conservative voices and reduction in user control over their own feeds have made this increasingly difficult for liberals on X.
Every social platform is created with its users. Bluesky users are not looking to recreate Twitter. They seem to be, mostly, looking for a more curated experience of what they see and whom they talk to, on a platform that is not constantly trying to get them to interact with brands (the most soulless phrase of this young century).
If Bluesky turns out to be a long-term home for political conversation, it will be because, as also happened on early Twitter, the new arrivals create appealing new habits and norms, not just new content. (There is already some evidence this is happening; Threads is considering letting users opt to see more content from people and organizations they follow, Bluesky’s main advantage over Threads.)
The shift to Bluesky could falter. Bluesky could fail to find a workable business model. Conservatives joining Bluesky, the better to own the libs, could swamp the conversation. But movement toward a more communal platform has already been swift and vast. Demand for social spaces that are organized around user preferences instead of advertiser preferences or owners’ whims may serve as a model for better spaces for political speech and a move away from “scale at all costs” business models.
Clay Shirky is an associate professor of journalism at New York University and the author of “Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators.”
The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We’d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here’s our email: letters@nytimes.com.
Follow the New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, X and Threads.
Mildly amused by the fact that the NYT apparently has social media accounts everywhere EXCEPT Bluesky currently. (See the end of the article.)
As an aside...
Who are they, again?
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Who would've thought having mass block lists would kill engagement?
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How come? I never used Mastodon outside of occasiona looking at Mastodon posts.
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Clearsky is included in the OP's relevant links section.
Beastie
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If you have a face like that and make an account on Bluesky, you can't expect me to be surprised when you're exposed as some sort of sexual molester.
Chickenpolar
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No, we definitely do. We're just very organized when it comes to taking turns with it.
Battlefield2142EU
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Funny how that raging homosexual cuck male feminist had zero issues with being white while voicing a black coded like Tom. Steve Blum himself says Tom is black-coded. By his own leftist logic, he is voicing blackface.
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Don't be. It isn't worth idolizing celebrities because they're out of touch tools who are, most of the time, pieces of shit behind the scenes.
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The modern "don't meet your heroes" is "don't look at your heroes social media".
din365
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If i remember correctly(assuming its the same guy), didn't he voice BLACKwargreymen in digimon?
a violent Black digimon to be exact? one that was going around destroying shit to pick a fight?
jesus H. fucking christ! Steve really acts like a hypocrite.
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Talibama
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the vps i was using with a 1gig pipe seems to be blocked from ingesting blueskys firehose now, so i post this with the caveat of being on a connection which may not be fast enough to gulp down the firehose at times, thereby impacting the calculated "post rate" because it would reflect my speed of ingestion rather than the rate at which bsky users are posting. id love to do the math on this but , for this reason , i cant calculate it accurately. id have to download the log and use sed to break it down into chunks of minutes and or seconds and 'wc' that.
this doesnt impact my ability to detect posts that are being shoved into bluesky with false timestamps by scripts though.
--- begin --
a couple pages ago someone asked whether bsky was just an ipo scam. i cant answer that. but i can tell you that a significant volume (10% of so of all posts) are backdated and the post date doesnt match the epoch timestamp.
heres how to find them and ill give you one example of a single bluesky post being backdated to 2020, but youll find them going back to 2008.. 2010..2011..
in the single example provided below 1733746410457973 is the unix epoch (real post time/date) and CreatedAt ("createdAt":"2020-07-22T21:21:54Z") is the forged post date. It artifically inflates the "post" stats and could indeed fudge the numbers if , if, if , if bluesky were a flash in the pan crash and burn IPO scam, i dont have enough to accuse of it of that but i do have this.
pssss: how do i know these are scripts/bots? because the API will let me alter the post creation date, the UI wont unless you change your system clock and there is NO current browser that would accept blueskys current ssl certificate in 2011 for example, nor an OLD browser that would accept blueskys CURRENT ssl signing intermediary.
*rates own post autistic*
-- command line fuju --
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09"
{"did":"did:plc:x3vhdvd4doddoqvdsur37o7u","time_us":1733746410457973,"type":"com","kind":"commit","commit":{"rev":"3lcup7hzzjp2b","type":"c","operation":"create","collection":"app.bsky.feed.post","rkey":"3lcup7hzpr72b","record":{"$type":"app.bsky.feed.post","createdAt":"2020-07-22T21:21:54Z","embed":{"$type":"app.bsky.embed.images","images":[{"alt":"","image":{"$type":"blob","ref":{"$link":"bafkreifd7ldwppugcjvojqpxghcuoqgbat5eusl6e3e5fhgwxizkuiquoi"},"mimeType":"image/jpeg","size":153673}}]},"facets":[{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"PEWithJoe"}],"index":{"byteEnd":44,"byteStart":34}}],"text":"Just wrapped up the last official #PEWithJoe with @thebodycoach . Started this 17+ weeks ago with my kids and it has saved me during these last few months. I went from being able to do 6 push-ups total to 37 in a minute. Resting heart rate has dropped 10bpm. 1/2"},"cid":"bafyreihuliuinutza3bsd6vqf4yojppvpex3scuyhcslihuq2mxad3mxnq"}}
filtering on this criteria alone heres the rate of artificial backdated posts being pumped into bluesky - which show up in jazz's user stats.
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09" | pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null
[6.82 /sneed]
[0.00 /sneed]
[7.37 /sneed]
and then heres the rate of posts where the unix epoch/timestamp is at least from today(right now)
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09" | pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null
[52.8 /sneed]
[98.4 /sneed]
[80.8 /sneed]
[33.1 /sneed]
this doesnt impact my ability to detect posts that are being shoved into bluesky with false timestamps by scripts though.
--- begin --
a couple pages ago someone asked whether bsky was just an ipo scam. i cant answer that. but i can tell you that a significant volume (10% of so of all posts) are backdated and the post date doesnt match the epoch timestamp.
heres how to find them and ill give you one example of a single bluesky post being backdated to 2020, but youll find them going back to 2008.. 2010..2011..
in the single example provided below 1733746410457973 is the unix epoch (real post time/date) and CreatedAt ("createdAt":"2020-07-22T21:21:54Z") is the forged post date. It artifically inflates the "post" stats and could indeed fudge the numbers if , if, if , if bluesky were a flash in the pan crash and burn IPO scam, i dont have enough to accuse of it of that but i do have this.
pssss: how do i know these are scripts/bots? because the API will let me alter the post creation date, the UI wont unless you change your system clock and there is NO current browser that would accept blueskys current ssl certificate in 2011 for example, nor an OLD browser that would accept blueskys CURRENT ssl signing intermediary.
*rates own post autistic*
-- command line fuju --
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09"
{"did":"did:plc:x3vhdvd4doddoqvdsur37o7u","time_us":1733746410457973,"type":"com","kind":"commit","commit":{"rev":"3lcup7hzzjp2b","type":"c","operation":"create","collection":"app.bsky.feed.post","rkey":"3lcup7hzpr72b","record":{"$type":"app.bsky.feed.post","createdAt":"2020-07-22T21:21:54Z","embed":{"$type":"app.bsky.embed.images","images":[{"alt":"","image":{"$type":"blob","ref":{"$link":"bafkreifd7ldwppugcjvojqpxghcuoqgbat5eusl6e3e5fhgwxizkuiquoi"},"mimeType":"image/jpeg","size":153673}}]},"facets":[{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"PEWithJoe"}],"index":{"byteEnd":44,"byteStart":34}}],"text":"Just wrapped up the last official #PEWithJoe with @thebodycoach . Started this 17+ weeks ago with my kids and it has saved me during these last few months. I went from being able to do 6 push-ups total to 37 in a minute. Resting heart rate has dropped 10bpm. 1/2"},"cid":"bafyreihuliuinutza3bsd6vqf4yojppvpex3scuyhcslihuq2mxad3mxnq"}}
filtering on this criteria alone heres the rate of artificial backdated posts being pumped into bluesky - which show up in jazz's user stats.
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09" | pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null
[6.82 /sneed]
[0.00 /sneed]
[7.37 /sneed]
and then heres the rate of posts where the unix epoch/timestamp is at least from today(right now)
$ ./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl "wss://jetstream2.us-east.bsky.network/subscribe?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post" |grep '"operation":"create"' |grep -v "2024-12-09" | pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null
[52.8 /sneed]
[98.4 /sneed]
[80.8 /sneed]
[33.1 /sneed]
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If we want to take this to its logical, purity-spiralling conclusion Steve Blum has also voiced plenty of unambiguously Japanese characters in dubs of various anime, which is obviously textbook yellowface. Those roles should have gone to Asian-American VAs who are already so criminally under-represented in western media (Daniel Dae Kim can't do everything himself, you know).
Sorry liberals, but if a white man can't voice Apu, then he can't voice Momochi Zabuza either. I didn't make the rules, you did.
Talibama
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going back to this for a second,
TLDR is that as of today, and for the last week or so I’ve been clocking this you can take any metric from bluesky and chop 10% off of it for this reason alone. Examples here tell you how to arrive at that on your own, or just ask me if you want an update
i looked into some of the accounts that were backdating a shit ton of posts, to see "is this a real person? are they importing their OWN tweets with some script or third party service?" and the answer is, yeah maybe, some of them. However most of the accounts doing this are deleted in a few days and yet the "deleted user" count barely broke 1.2 million and i dont believe that metric at all. they also dont readily make the suspension metric available.
So they import a shit ton of posts [that may or may not belong to them] and keep the numbers up, then theyre gone and so is the evidence.
so heres one posting "in 2012" , you can type did:plc:v2hfhpmnpoczdctxb3shpkca into clearsky.app and see who or what it is.
whats a DID? glad you asked. the entirely appropriately named bluesky user ID component, or DID :
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is often considered to have significant overlap with Cluster B personality disorders, particularly Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), due to the shared characteristic of unstable identity and significant emotional dysregulation, which can manifest as distinct "alters" in DID and rapid mood swings in BPD; meaning someone with DID might also present with traits of a Cluster B personality disorder.
with apologies to thie user, this is 100% random, dont know or care who this is, please dont bother them over this post. Particularly, don’t bother one of the few bluesky users I’ve found who are posting positive supportive things about your wellbeing. but on clearsky the DID resolves to a Dr Lisa Cherry , https://clearsky.app/drlisacherry.bsky.social
in this case, i can find a person with that name on Linkedin, plugging Bluesky so they do appear to be a legit user backdating their own posts.
its just that theres a significant volume of ex tweeters importing their OWN posts [maybe. others could be spammers , or bluesky itself shoveling in a feed of shit and then covering up its tracks] at an extremely high volume, then this falls off after they have imported their old tweets..... and then the "post count" falls with it , and will continue doing so after theyve attracted whoever theyre going to attract and all those people imported whatever theyre going to import. then it will nosedive sharply.
{"did":"did:plc:v2hfhpmnpoczdctxb3shpkca","time_us":1733747734463488,"type":"com","kind":"commit","commit":{"rev":"3lcuqgxawhi2c","type":"c","operation":"create","collection":"app.bsky.feed.post","rkey":"3lcuqgxapmq2c","record":{"$type":"app.bsky.feed.post","createdAt":"2012-04-10T14:01:25Z","facets":[{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#link","uri":"http://ow.ly/aaV8w"}],"index":{"byteEnd":71,"byteStart":53}},{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"amazing"}],"index":{"byteEnd":91,"byteStart":83}},{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"women"}],"index":{"byteEnd":98,"byteStart":92}},{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"wellbeing"}],"index":{"byteEnd":109,"byteStart":99}},{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"recovery"}],"index":{"byteEnd":119,"byteStart":110}},{"features":[{"$type":"app.bsky.richtext.facet#tag","tag":"jft"}],"index":{"byteEnd":124,"byteStart":120}}],"text":"Sign up here for your FREE Chapter from my new book. http://ow.ly/aaV8w All things #amazing #women #wellbeing #recovery #jft"},"cid":"bafyreialgdjutoyzcttymqtu6a6jsmvjsvej6ond7wi4ayzrwsqzlagqlm"}}
^C
TLDR is that as of today, and for the last week or so I’ve been clocking this you can take any metric from bluesky and chop 10% off of it for this reason alone. Examples here tell you how to arrive at that on your own, or just ask me if you want an update
i looked into some of the accounts that were backdating a shit ton of posts, to see "is this a real person? are they importing their OWN tweets with some script or third party service?" and the answer is, yeah maybe, some of them. However most of the accounts doing this are deleted in a few days and yet the "deleted user" count barely broke 1.2 million and i dont believe that metric at all. they also dont readily make the suspension metric available.
So they import a shit ton of posts [that may or may not belong to them] and keep the numbers up, then theyre gone and so is the evidence.
so heres one posting "in 2012" , you can type did:plc:v2hfhpmnpoczdctxb3shpkca into clearsky.app and see who or what it is.
whats a DID? glad you asked. the entirely appropriately named bluesky user ID component, or DID :
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is often considered to have significant overlap with Cluster B personality disorders, particularly Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), due to the shared characteristic of unstable identity and significant emotional dysregulation, which can manifest as distinct "alters" in DID and rapid mood swings in BPD; meaning someone with DID might also present with traits of a Cluster B personality disorder.
with apologies to thie user, this is 100% random, dont know or care who this is, please dont bother them over this post. Particularly, don’t bother one of the few bluesky users I’ve found who are posting positive supportive things about your wellbeing. but on clearsky the DID resolves to a Dr Lisa Cherry , https://clearsky.app/drlisacherry.bsky.social
in this case, i can find a person with that name on Linkedin, plugging Bluesky so they do appear to be a legit user backdating their own posts.
its just that theres a significant volume of ex tweeters importing their OWN posts [maybe. others could be spammers , or bluesky itself shoveling in a feed of shit and then covering up its tracks] at an extremely high volume, then this falls off after they have imported their old tweets..... and then the "post count" falls with it , and will continue doing so after theyve attracted whoever theyre going to attract and all those people imported whatever theyre going to import. then it will nosedive sharply.
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SECURITY ALERT! The security firm and Nazi organization known as Kiwi Farms is terrorizing bluesky by liking posts!
https://bsky.app/profile/phonix7.bsky.social/post/3lcurnh67nc2y (A)
https://bsky.app/profile/phonix7.bsky.social/post/3lcurnh67nc2y (A)
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I checked his feed, most AI slop account I've ever seen "floating around sky blue"
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Reddit is a hate site? Lol I get banned for using the word “troon” all the time. My most recent ban was on shitpostXIV which is/was supposed to be an alternative to the main leftie sub. Reddit loves troons.