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Marcus Hutchins
@malwaretech.com

I remember in the early Bluesky days convincing people to come over here from Twitter because the amount of authentic engagement was like 10x higher. Now I get significantly more engagement on a Threads account with 3k followers than 36k here 🥀

Marcus Hutchins
@malwaretech.com

Idk, Mastodon doesn't have one either and I think that actually heavily favors accounts with large followings. I can easily get a post be on the front page of every major instance.

Kevin Beaumont
@doublepulsar.com

That would be trending algorithm on mastodon 😅 the active users on Mastodon has dropped off a cliff - it’s about 0.7m per month and that includes a great many spam accounts, but engagement is still high for people who actually post good content. But there’s a whole pretend there’s no algorithm thing

Marcus Hutchins
@malwaretech.com

But to get into the trending algorithm you have to be like the top 10 more reposted post on that instance I think. But either way, kind of wild I can do 500-2k reposts on a platform with 0.7m users, but here it's like screaming into the void

Andrew Starr
@ajsta.bsky.social

I wonder if it's also because the bluesky discover feed has been tweaked so infosec doesn't escape containment after an early issue with @filippo.abyssdomain.expert, and the infosec niche is still quite small. Threads seems to amplify posts outside of topic niche where they get early engagement..