@reprapryn @davidgerard had a day to think and i don’t think it’s quite corpo simpery for the shitposters. many of the shitposters ive seen move to bluesky (used to follow a small chunk of them on twitter) aren’t corpo simps, at least not nominally.
rather, i think the reason they move to bluesky is that they just want to be a bully, and fedi comes down way harder on bullying and toxicity (mostly due to how its moderation tooling is set up) while bluesky explicitly doesn’t give a shit.
most of them don’t actually want the nazis completely gone, not as easily as fedi allows for it (while fedis mod tools aren’t great, the ability to suspend any direct instance interaction is a very good dampener on toxicity). they’re perfectly fine with the corporate whack-a-mole, but if it’s not there, that’s fine too. their popularity came from ridiculing nazis, they’re not about to give that up.
i don’t want to name specific people on this, but it does stand out that the queer shitposters whose biggest claim to fame was “lol, look at me ratioing this dumbfuck nazi” are the ones mostly on bluesky.
fedis mod tools (as well as having a history of defederating these types of instances from regular instances due to “friendly fire” - see witches dot town for an older example i happen to be familiar with) reduce that kind of interaction, which helps keep toxicity down.
bluesky pretty much doesn’t moderate and allows that kind of content to fester and get as popular as it was before. hence why they flock over to it and want to claim its superiority over mastodon - they want their audience and fedi doesn’t want to give it to them.
at least, that’s my current theory.
David Gerard
Glitch (over count 1999)
Rep Rap Ryn :3