“Why don't you like BlueSky?"
Twitter taught me something. Any "For Profit" company is going to be a slave to its need for growth, its investors, and corporate greed.
BlueSky says “We don't want to be like that”. but they're also a for profit company that is going to end up a slave to their investors and their greed just like any other for profit company.
I don't feel like establishing myself there, just to have it all come apart in a few years like Twitter did. Because that's inevitable.
@xoagray i have an account on BS and honestly after a few weeks using it I abandoned the platform really quickly
I can only agree with your saying, the feeling is pretty much the exact same as with pre-musk twitter. And if I'm being honest, even before musk, the platform was a mental health nightmare.
@mathias @mimosa @xoagray 💯 The conditioning that site subject me to did horrible things to my mental health. Best thing I ever did, short of leaving FL, was leaving that site.
I'm quite leery of BS for the same reasons. In the early days, it felt like a tight-knit community, but now it's just "Furry Twitter on Bluesky" and I'm finding myself losing interest. Can recognize the same patterns and behaviors.
@foxyloon @mathias @xoagray
Initially I wasn't a furry when joining twitter and when I became one I didn't really feel a sense of community at all at first.
Like, sure, there were popular artists and all but it was hard to see something like when I was active in another community I was in.
The real first time I felt connected with people like in a community was when coming to the Fediverse and it quickly became my main social platform for this reason.
BS feels like when I tried to join the community via twitter 3 years ago.
(Ps for the person tagged automatically, please let me know if you want the notification removed from the discussion)
@mimosa @mathias @xoagray Exactly! Part of it is because a lot of popular artists post with an automated setup, like postybirb, so there’s no meaningful interaction on there. Would have to join their Patreon or “official Discord server” to actually interact with them directly.
I get the impression that folks are genuinely interacting with each other in the fediverse, which definitely is the missing link that other social media sites lack. No need for chasing metrics, obsessing over view counts. Just folks sharing their thoughts and interests, and genuinely interested folks expressing their thoughts and feelings in return.
Moving to @
Mimosarts
Mathias ❄️🐺🐶 
Ruby Tails > FWA