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Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

For the record I think the architecture stuff is cool and also what eventually will flummox any attempt to make Bluesky more fascist-friendly, since if Bluesky runs that direction people can (theoretically) decamp to federated services (relatively) painlessly and keep going like nothing happened.

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

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All of the Sex Workers, Furries, Trans people, POC, Black people and more really made this place the best social media. It still sucks some days but it kinda fucks 69 times more often than it sucks

When I arrived here (among the first 125,000), here were times when my feed would just end. I started following some of "less conventionally acceptable" people and things just sort of took off.

Also not forgetting the lovely BIPOC Sex Workers who helped make it happen. As “distasteful” as many consider them, Sex Workers, like Furries and Trans folks, are often signs of a healthy online ecosystem, since they embrace bodily autonomy and all that entails. Also, there’s a lot of crossover. ❤️