And what makes Social Networks the most money? Angry people showing up to start drama. There are already folks starting to clap-back at artists posting their bluesky profiles going "STOP ASKING US TO FOLLOW YOU THERE. WE CAN'T YET. THAT'S BY DESIGN. THERE AREN'T ENOUGH INVITES FOR THE NORMIES" and the FIRST thing a lot of the normies are gonna do when they get on bluesky are gonna go digging in people's prior posts looking for 'God. this place is so fun and free without all the fuckin' normies', doing whatever the bluesky equivalent of a QRT is, and reading them for filth right there in public.

And bam: The artist and their followers are now embroiled in drama, staying extra long and providing bluesky with extra ad views, probably paying bluesky for some extra features like the ability to quiet-block whatever normie or make extra-long rebuttal posts and post higher quality GIFs about how the normie's mother is a whore.

@EppyNWS I mean, I get it if someone doesn't vibe with Mastodon. There are certain features of this site that are unwieldy at best, especially if you use the default web client, and that can make it more difficult to use. A friend of mine, for instance, just could not wrap their mind around how cross-instance interactions work when you're not following the user who made the post. I get it, but the whole "copy this url into the search bar on your instance first then you can favorite/boost it" thing is way more cumbersome than it should be. I'm hoping that the new version of Mastodon that is releasing soon will help in this regard - it's supposed to fix (or at least smooth over) a bunch of these sorts of user experience issues.

That said, I can't lie, it is still frustrating to see people who bounce to bsky without really giving Mastodon a real chance.