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They act like parasites, expecting numbers to be meaningful.

If the people on X think we’re antisemites and pedophiles… why don’t they just elect one of us as president?

I almost fell for it and replied (accounts with five times fewer followers after six years on X than I have after two years on Bsky claiming there’s no engagement here 🤡). Then I remembered the trap of the X algo and the much-anticipated "debates" that consists of nothing but getting insulted.

I was the Schrodinger's Spaceshipper 🤭

Yeah it’s kinda sad to see left wing accounts on more right wing centric platforms like X or Facebook get completely dogpiled on because it can be incredibly counterproductive. Even if those running the account don’t get dissuaded from sharing their beliefs the people who agree with them might

90% of success is showing up.

That's the thing - the numbers are of little use at the best of times. On Twitter, we KNOW that they are entirely meaningless. This reeks of "we have no idea what we're doing or what we want, but 'number go up' is good, 'number less than before' is bad".

Pas assez de polémique par ici pour faire de l'audience 🤷🏻‍♂️

To enter "Regards" in the search bar, any search bar, sends you on a trip around around the world. A lecture in naming your endeavour.

Most engagements on X are bots. So if you prefer talking/arguing with yourself X will suit you just fine.

On the other hand, at least on Czech BSky I observe decreasing amount of interactions as some ppl are returning the Xitter. Right now i’s still ok but should it continue, I would also consider moving elsewhere. I am just sure that it would not be Xitter as I still remember all bots I had to block…

I have no idea who they are or what they attempted, but it sounds like they are saying low effort Organic engagement has little reach and they have to go back somewhere they can buy it by the pound. A "we tried nothing and they're all out of ideas" perhaps?

Maybe they are not so much "left-wing"

Rest assured many of us know😅: but apart from their poor decision, these two "journalists" have mostly outed themselves as very "corruptible", damaging their reputation a lot, which is a much worse thing to happen than to only hit a few "likes". Didn't follow them then, won't be following them now!

This is painful as ALL the space companies use X almost exclusively. As a space artist and rocket nerd, I'm literally cutting myself off from the prime source of news. I could not get away from the nazi crap and eventually I felt like I was being complicit in 'tolerating' it. So I torched my login.

Preach! All the people who are saying that Bluesky doesn't have the 'reach' that X does are missing the point. We don't want to come here to get away from the deplorables and then they follow us all here.

They are after cash. Sadly a lot of evil people have a lot of cash. That and large numbers. A lot of people can be wrong (see a single individual finding out a health/infection risk and the majority ignoring it and getting ill).

Yeah, a bunch of small-to-medium, semi-hemi-focused communities is way, way better to deal with than the whole "a platform must encompass the entire planet or else it's non-competitive!" mentality. (And makes things inconvenient for the bot hordes, which is always a plus nowadays.)