@[email protected] @jerry let me try and draw a thing

@[email protected] @jerry

this is about the way i see it. this is my prediction. Jerry will have real numbers (if he keeps them) in logs/etm for every major wave of new user influx, but this is how i see it from the bleachers every time.

sorry for shit graph. i wish skitch could do drop-of-the-hat graphs

@Viss @screaminggoat It’s probably fatalistic of me to say, but most will go to bsky. I think it will take something happening with bsky for there to be a big surge here. And they won’t stay unless/until we get DMs and discoverability sorted out.

@jerry @[email protected] i have noticed a divergence of .. "flavor"

the people who want to chitchat about nerd stuff, have conversations, post hobbies, art, pics etc - they all come here.

the people who go to bsky are the ones who want a soapbox - a one-way relationship. they want 'an audience' and they would prefer if that audience largely kept their mouths shut. they want fame, the limelight. paradise for narcisists.

they'll go there
we'll scoop up the nerds :D

@Viss @screaminggoat I think you’re right. And that’s ok. We have a community and I can also hang out on bsky if I want to.

I have noticed the maga-adjacent crowd starting to take off their masks here. That is making moderation someone exciting

@jerry @[email protected]

vaporize them all.
i shall live vicariously through you, in launching orbital strikes against the folks who we always knew were probably that flavor but have finally gone mask off.

@Viss
powers up laser mod cannons
@jerry @screaminggoat
@chillybot @jerry @[email protected] i got thrown under the bus for pointing out that derbycon had maga hats on staff, and they were throwing white power symbols. i got dogpiled for pointing out people were making 'nazi cakes' and joking about them. suddenly all those people who screamed at me back then are real quiet