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The proof is there but I wonder how much is due to dead/inactive/abandoned accounts

what feed do you use? Following?

Well, to be fair, it's possible to do that on Twitter, too. The ratio of asshats to intelligent humans is just a lot higher over there. );

Surely no one trusts the numbers of x “followers” , the cesspool full of trolls and bots?

Yup. More than that, actual effective engagement, not some passing bot or troll

Ask an actual Dem fundraiser where he gets most of his from. @charlesgaba.com

Real human here. I agree.

The people trashing Bluesky are, IMHO, people who love swimming in the cesspool of Twitter, and hate swimming in decent water.

Also bears

I love y'all and try my best to engage honestly and earnestly!

I think social media users on other platforms would have their digi-dopamine NUKED if they found out how much of their engagement actually comes from bots, etc.

What if they’re Homer Simpson bots?

The only other social media I have is facebook. And all I see on it is "sponsored ads, and people to follow" Never any friends posts. So YEA, I LOVE bluesky!

This is an important point

Same, plus a cesspool of evil.

It is 2016 and I am getting a set of PDFs of various Facebook accounts, the posts - lists - likes - interactions - PMs - all as a single document in an archive. Because the cops had it and shared that via public records. All of them Nazis or affiliates. They got each with a single email to FB.

All algorithms and AI slop everywhere else.

The one statistic I miss is views. A big disadvantage of the feed approach is that an account like this one, which appears on many feeds, probably gets many more views than its follower count would imply. Or that's what I tell myself when I need to feel better. I'd like to *know*.

so much great data for me to include in my Netroots training tomorrow. ..

Not sure how many times this has to be borne out before it sinks in. Several companies have reported engagement results magnitudes higher through this site.

The biggest room on every platform is the room for improvement The rumour has it that MAGA fears Bluesky … 🦋💫🦋

Twitter is astroturfed with paid accounts and bots, it so bad 🤔🤷‍♂️😲

I’m still on Substack in spite of its Nazi ownership because unlike XTwitter, the owner’s white supremacist affiliations didn’t affect my user experience when viewing marginalized people’s newsletters.

I expected some divergence due the right wing slant of the other platform’s algorithm but not this wide.

I should add, Mastodon would be good, too, if anyone actually used it other than privacy nerds and techies.

This is the only space where you can ask a question and get a legitimate answer. X is crazytown and threads is full of posts that lack context and you have to be terminally online to understand what is going on.

BlueSky is my #1. The adults are here.

Exactly the kind of thing I avoid in real life!

I'm convinced that 90% of engagement on X.com are bots.

and @jcsalterego.bsky.social 😜

I’m a human. Well, not to republicans because I’m black.. but I’m still human.

I find it strange that people who should know better are in complete denial about how botted social media is.

For sure. The other apps are mostly bots.