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 Bluesky is for the most part a nostalgia app for a time in the 2010s when a 'Be Gay, Do Crime' stixk-n-poke tattoo was a fringe radical statement, rather than the desktop background of the HR department.

It's not so much for twitter exodusees, but more a specific 2010s Left Twitter & Tumblr larper. Which is surprisingly large in number. But that success is probably at a peak? (Or maybe I'm wrong and there are loads more lolol). It is also a major problem for onboarding more interesting users.

Obviously bitcoin tourettes is a huge nostr problem. However seeing as there are only 24 of us, it would only take an influencer with a fanbase of 25 to outnumber the bitcoin slogans crowd here.

This is our strength lol


These are my #bluesky hot takes. Thanks for muting me. 
 I'm a bluesky social anthropologist now
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 Bitcoin Tourette’s, not heard that before. Accurate. 
 Bitcoing Tourettes Chatroom

I think I invented the phrase lol:)

And they say I don't contribute anything here 😤 
 I started out thinking I wouldn't follow anyone with funny eyes or hodl in their names, then I could only find 10 people but hey, if I was in this for numbers I'd be on some crap old website like MySpace or X. 
 Myspace... Crap??? 😡 
 Fair, you can't glitter your profile on X. 
 https://image.nostr.build/eef8bdb75539c8f0f2567ce37eaa980b053c02756fce739bca7712c6c17bbbee.jpg 

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 2010s Left Twitter simulator aka Bluesky

Select dialogue:

A: Punch a nazi
B: Fight the fash
C: Yikes
D: Leave
 
 Is it though? BlueSky is just some next corp larping as an open, decentralised thingy.

That said, I've never made an account because of the reasons above. 
 I think a lot of the crowd which has adopted it use it like this. Obviously there are other people there tbf to bluesky 
 It’s totally ok, to move on from the bird and remove its power from your mind and the minds of others by not talking about it anymore. Or not. Whatever you prefer. 
 One of the funniest things for me on twitter itself is watching Elon reply guy some astroturfed centre right twitter account like libsoftiktoks content with 'Yikerinos'.  It's all just lowest common denominator political theatre when he should be busy running his billion dollar companies lmao 
 This guy is a furry and proudboys supporter who shot 5 and killed one person… not all furries are lefties. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normandale_Park_shooting 
 Yeah man, I think that you make a good point about the Bitcoin content. It's nothing to worry about, because it's self correcting, and as the network grows, it will still be a very active part of the network with lively discussions, but it will have it's own corner and won't be front and centre as much as it is now, and there is nothing wrong with that.

The one thing that I can't forgive Bluesky, putting aside it's political leanings, is that they are openly in favor of censorship, and are anti privacy.

I think that speaks volumes. 
 It’s peaked because these folx are not progressing to the next stage of life where they have kids and stop being the center of attention 
 Goddam it I love this take. 🫂 
 My wife is on Tumblr.  She tells me all the mainstream lefties jumped ship in like 2017 when Tumblr banned porn.  Now one of the more prominent Tumblr contingents are Catholics lol.