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There is a debate on French Bsky because a left-wing media outlet has announced it is returning to X due to insufficient engagement on Bsky—even though they are barely active on the platform. A quick reminder: unless you are some sort of celebrity, generating engagement takes work. Sorry.

It really sucks, especially if you were already a media outlet or mid-sized account before joining Bsky. 20% of my X followers followed me here, and anyone with a reasonably large account had an advantage here right from the start. Crossposting is nice, but you need to be present.

I just pulled up one of my old tweets from X and was met with a flood of tweets from people obsessed with the return of progressives from Bsky, accusing them of antisemitism and pedophilia. On X 🫠 It gives me PTSD of my last months there.

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.

And being present also means there's a chance that someone who wasn't previously aware of you might start following. I'm pretty sure I didn't know you existed before joining bsky, for example.

Plus now X is purging old users (like me) because older users are not insane Nazis. So the left wing outlet will get more engagement... of people telling them that the moustache man should have gotten rid of all of them when he was 'saving' (occupying) France.